CBR10Bingo – Shiny! 2018 book I liked this book a lot. So much so that I almost gave it five stars. It’s more flawed than that would otherwise suggest, occasionally feeling repetitive or digressive. But the tone is incredibly infectious, the narrator is so succinct, and it’s so obvious that the author has a complete command over the subject matter. The novel is about a Russian scholar who has just come off his third unsuccessful turn on the academic job market, suffering from being too […]