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A collection that never really comes together

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

September 21, 2022 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – Verse In this collection of poetry, Ocean Vuong, according to the summary on Goodreads, “Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.” Here’s the thing, though. I didn’t experience any of that. The entire collection feels like Vuong had poems that he had lying around that hadn’t been published yet that sold as a meditation on grief, hoping no one would look too closely. “The […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: cbr14bingo, ocean vuong

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: cbr14bingo, ocean vuong ·
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“How you say what you mean changes what you say.”

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

August 8, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo – Verse, for this lovely book of poetry I am an avid reader – and I love a good poem, especially one embedded into a narrative. When a character reads a poem in a novel, I always think, I should read more poetry. But I rarely have the patience to finish an entire book of poetry. This book, consumed over several days, in between chapters of the book that I am STILL reading (Hanya Yanagihara writes looong books!) – this book might be […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: cbr14bingo, ocean vuong

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:80 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: cbr14bingo, ocean vuong ·
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Fiction Reviews Dump

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chain

Another Place You've Never Been by Rebecca Kauffman

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Dietland by Sarai Walker

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

December 30, 2021 by Nannerbears 1 Comment

Apologies in advance, and I hope I can be forgiven for the end-of-the-year review dump. I’ve had bits and pieces to say about the books I read but it never felt well-formed enough to tell others about them. So, here we go, a review dump of some of the fiction I read this year.  A Good Neighborhood |  Therese Anne Fowler We’ve all been reading long enough to know that a book titled A Good Neighborhood is not actually about a good neighborhood. It’s about […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Detransition Baby, dietland, elif batuman, Good Neighborhood, Juliann Garey, multiple reviews, ocean vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Rebecca Kauffman, sarai walker, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chain, the idiot, Therese Anne Fowler, Torrey Peters

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Detransition Baby, dietland, elif batuman, Good Neighborhood, Juliann Garey, multiple reviews, ocean vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Rebecca Kauffman, sarai walker, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chain, the idiot, Therese Anne Fowler, Torrey Peters ·
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I’m not 100% sure of everything I read but I loved every second of it

On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

August 8, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son, named Little Dog, to his illiterate mother. The majority of the letter deals with Little Dog coming to terms with and making sense of his life and the lives of his mother and grandmother. He tells his memory of events from childhood all the way through college graduation. The letter is an attempt for him, a gay, college-educated, young man to bridge the gap between who he is and his family, specifically his mother, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, nonlinear, ocean vuong

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, nonlinear, ocean vuong ·
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You know when it’s not the book’s fault you didn’t like it, you just read it at the wrong time?

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

March 24, 2020 by pineolliepple 2 Comments

I read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous as a book club pick during the dead time between Christmas and New Year’s, and resented it the whole time for not being a lightweight romance or cozy mystery. If I had read it in deep February, I might have loved it. On Earth is a novel about inherited childhood trauma written as a letter by the narrator, Little Dog, to his mother, who will never read it. It jumps from events before his birth – the devastating […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: debut novel, epistolary novel, Fiction, ocean vuong

pineolliepple's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: debut novel, epistolary novel, Fiction, ocean vuong ·
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Big time catch up post

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell

The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

March 23, 2020 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

I am WAY behind. I have a stand-alone review planned for my favorite book of the year and another group review for a series on the way but I needed to knock these out and get my count down a bit. How the gracious did I get so backlogged. Let’s take these one-by-one because they really don’t have a whole lot in common. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert Reading Red, White & Royal Blue earlier this year turned me around a bit on […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Mia Sosa, ocean vuong, Rivers Solomon, Sonia Purnell, Talia Hibbert

lowercasesee's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Romance · Tags: Mia Sosa, ocean vuong, Rivers Solomon, Sonia Purnell, Talia Hibbert ·
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