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Getting Into Dodge

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

January 21, 2020 by jeverett15 1 Comment

By now, the legend of John Henry “Doc” Holliday has been amended and corrected so many times that it can feel like the truth might be irretrievable. Enter Mary Doria Russell’s Doc, which sets out to tell the truth of the man through fiction. Doc tells the story of its titular dentist from his days as a young man in antebellum Georgia to his infamous days associating with the Earp brothers in the wild west outpost of Dodge City, Kansas. Russell guides the reader through […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Western Tagged With: Mary Doria Russell

jeverett15's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Western · Tags: Mary Doria Russell ·
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The sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

May 9, 2017 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

Emilio Sandoz is a Jesuit priest. He has just arrived back to Earth after having been on a journey to another planet to make contact with aliens. He is a broken man. The things he has been through have left him shaken to his core, and they have shaken his faith in God. We find out these things gradually. The story is told backwards in that it starts with the return of Sandoz to Earth. Only later, as Sandoz himself starts to come to terms […]

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Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Mary Doria Russell, Shaman, The Sparrow

The Book Omnivore's CBR9 Review No:18 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Mary Doria Russell, Shaman, The Sparrow ·
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FINALLY posting my Children of God Review.

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

August 26, 2016 by bonnie 2 Comments

Last year, I read The Sparrow for CBR7, and it totally wrecked me. I’m not even kidding, I finished the book huddled up in bed, surrounded by Kleenex. It was beautiful and damaging and raw all at once. I had heard there was a sequel, but just did not feel quite up to it at the time. Thanks to faintingviolet’s cheerleading, I decided I would be ready to read the sequel in 2016. And I am glad that I read it this year. Faintingviolet’s and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, faintingviolet, halbs, Mary Doria Russell

bonnie's CBR8 Review No:93 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bonnie, faintingviolet, halbs, Mary Doria Russell ·
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Mary Doria Russell Always Makes Me THINK

Children of God (The Sparrow #2) by Mary Doria Russell

August 7, 2016 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

I read The Sparrow last year and was absolutely gutted by the story of Father Emilio Sandoz and the crew of the first mission to Rakhat. Having decided to work my way through Mary Doria Russell’s works, I knew that I would eventually read its sequel, Children of God. However, I knew very little about it, other than that it continued Emilio’s story.  Bonnie also read The Sparrow for Cannonball Read 7, and we had talked about reading Children of Men together this year. In […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, buddy reads, children of god, faintingviolet, Mary Doria Russell, Philosophy, read harder challenge, Religion, The Sparrow

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: bonnie, buddy reads, children of god, faintingviolet, Mary Doria Russell, Philosophy, read harder challenge, Religion, The Sparrow ·
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A crushing crisis of faith.

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

July 15, 2015 by bonnie 5 Comments

There are points in a person’s life when a book crushes her very core, and she is left reeling. There are moments when a book’s impact is felt too-closely based on an event or circumstance in a person’s life. In my life, The Book Thief fits that former category, a book that left me curled up in fetal position around a box of Kleenex, sobbing until I couldn’t breathe. The latter kind of book is The Fault in Our Stars, which I read for CBR5 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, Mary Doria Russell

bonnie's CBR7 Review No:133 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: bonnie, Mary Doria Russell ·
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“the sparrow still falls”

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

January 14, 2015 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

Many moons ago I read Dreamers of the Day for CBR4. I loved the prose, and marveled at the rich character development even if my review isn’t as effusive (the book has grown on me over time). The author, Mary Doria Russell, has received positive reviews over the course of the many Cannonball Reads, so I decided that I wanted to jump back in with this author. I put The Sparrow on my library request list, and when the email came in that it was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: faintingviolet, Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

faintingviolet's CBR7 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: faintingviolet, Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow ·
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