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How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet

January 23, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“His first idol was Andrew Jackson.” I managed to mess this one up pretty good. I started reading Lydia Millet books a few years ago, and when her new story collection Fight No More came out, I grabbed a few more off the shelf. I ended up reading Magnificence, which was one of the newer novels, and found it compelling but a little confusing. Then later I read Ghostlights, and found it both the same, and also oddly familiar, but I couldn’t place why exactly. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Lydia Millet

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Lydia Millet ·
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Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet

January 2, 2023 by vel veeter 1 Comment

“When the bird landed on her foot the pop star was surprised.” This is an early collection of short fiction by Lydia Millet, whose books I recently found out were all on Hoopla, and I felt so rich in Millet, I over-borrowed. I was thinking this collection would be a lot like a lot of early collections, good, but no novels, and I am wrong. This is a really fun and great collection, and even better, short! Some of the stories: A recounting of the […]

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vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Lydia Millet ·
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Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

January 2, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“When he decided to leave New York, he chose Arizona because of some drone footage he’d seen.” Lydia Millet most previous novel A Children’s Bible was a much more explicit rendering of an apocalyptic future in which climate change had forever taken its toll on humanity, and all that was left was the shouting (mostly pillaging and murder). It was also a kind of retelling of A High Wind in Jamaica. This novel more or less addresses the same basic question: what’s to become of us? The difference […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Lydia Millet

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Lydia Millet ·
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the december rush

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And Your Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

Near the Bone by Christina Henry

How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens

The Lightness by Emily Temple

The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

December 31, 2021 by Jenna 2 Comments

Franny, Jet, and Vincent Owens take special joy in disobeying their mother’s rules. They wear red shoes and black clothes. They read books about magic. They fall in love. It’s the Lower East Side in the 60s. Who can blame them? I didn’t realize this was a prequel. I just picked it up at an airport bookstore when I had 3 hours to kill and a low phone battery. I’m grateful this is the only book that called out to me. I’m always drawn to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Alice Hoffman, Christina Henry, Darcy Coates, dave eggers, Emily Temple, Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett, Lydia Millet, Seanan McGuire, Shari Lapena, Sonke Ahrens, Zakiya Dalila Harris

Jenna's CBR13 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: Alice Hoffman, Christina Henry, Darcy Coates, dave eggers, Emily Temple, Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett, Lydia Millet, Seanan McGuire, Shari Lapena, Sonke Ahrens, Zakiya Dalila Harris ·
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Ghost Lights – Lydia Millet (2011)

Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet

September 8, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I guess when I read the follow up to this book and thought, oh it’s called a trilogy but it’s NOT REALLY a trilogy, I might have been wrong? I was reading this one and the plot partially involves a 50 year old man who works for the the IRS believing that his wife, with whom he kind of does and doesn’t have an open relationship with, is cheating on him, or if they do kind of have an open relationship, then sleeping with someone […]

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vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:383 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Lydia Millet ·
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I think this is the first pre-apocalypse book I’ve ever read

A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

July 16, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

CBR BINGO – Book Club Admittedly, I am getting a jump on this book club reading. My local bookstore, Brazos Bookstore, has chosen this book as it’s October book club selection and will be inviting author Lydia Millet to a virtual Q&A and discussion. This book was available at my library right before I was going on vacation for a week, so I had to snatch it up. Evie and her brother Jack are two kids out of many whose families vacation together each summer. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: apocalypse, cbr13bingo, climate change, extreme weather, Lydia Millet, young people

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: apocalypse, cbr13bingo, climate change, extreme weather, Lydia Millet, young people ·
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