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Grab Bag

In Pharoah's Army by Tobias Wolff

Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka

Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The Collected Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece Pancake

Child of God by Cormac Mccarthy

Candide by Voltaire

A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman

On Animals by Susan Orlean

The Facts by Philip Roth

July 7, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

In Pharoah’s Army -4/5 The second memoir by Tobias Wolff (known for A Boy’s Life too) but covering his time in Vietnam. This memoir reads a lot like a Vietnam novel — faint with memories, covering topics, and episodic. It’s hard not to compare it to Tim O’Brien’s The Things they Carried (a “novel”) and If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship me Home (a memoir). In those two books Tim O’Brien likes to hide. There’s a few moments where […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History Tagged With: AE Housman, Breece Pancake, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, gene wolfe, Geoff Dyer, Kōtarō Isaka, Mary Stewart, philip roth, Susan Orlean, Tobias Wolff, Voltaire

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:355 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History · Tags: AE Housman, Breece Pancake, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, gene wolfe, Geoff Dyer, Kōtarō Isaka, Mary Stewart, philip roth, Susan Orlean, Tobias Wolff, Voltaire ·
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May 2022 Leftovers

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob by Gianni Russo

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

American Tabloid by James Ellroy

Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

Dead Soon Enough by Steph Cha

Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka

June 1, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Here are the books I read in May 2022 that I didn’t get to give a full review for whatever reason. I read a lot of authors of AAPI descent; their books were all wonderful in their own respective ways… Sea of Tranquility **** Unquestionably a metacommentary on the author’s Station Eleven success in the shadow of Covid-19, it’s a beautifully written reflection on finding peace and contentment in the uncertainties of life. I don’t know that I enjoyed it as much as others did given […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #memoir, #Science Fiction, American Tabloid, Arkansas, Bullet Train, Chicago, Clark and Division, covid, Dead Soon Enough, Emily St. John Mandel, Gianni Russo, historical fiction, Hollywood Godfather, Hot Springs, James Ellroy, Japan, Japanese-American, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jennifer Hillier, JFK assassination, Juniper Song, Kōtarō Isaka, LGBTQIA, Little Secrets, los angeles, mafia, Mark Frost, mystery, Naomi Hirahara, pandemic, Pizza Girl, Sea of Tranquility, Seattle, Steph Cha, Stephen Hunter, the godfather, thriller, tv, twin peaks

Jake's CBR14 Review No:95 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #memoir, #Science Fiction, American Tabloid, Arkansas, Bullet Train, Chicago, Clark and Division, covid, Dead Soon Enough, Emily St. John Mandel, Gianni Russo, historical fiction, Hollywood Godfather, Hot Springs, James Ellroy, Japan, Japanese-American, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jennifer Hillier, JFK assassination, Juniper Song, Kōtarō Isaka, LGBTQIA, Little Secrets, los angeles, mafia, Mark Frost, mystery, Naomi Hirahara, pandemic, Pizza Girl, Sea of Tranquility, Seattle, Steph Cha, Stephen Hunter, the godfather, thriller, tv, twin peaks ·
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