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terrific writing about terrible things

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

May 31, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Trigger Warning: please read the tags before deciding to read this review and/or book. If you feel that you can read this book, then you must. If you feel that you cannot, I will pass no judgement. Perhaps you have heard of the drama surrounding this release. American Dirt was climbing the charts and dominating the controversy  conversation when My Dark Vanessa tip-toed in and threw a hat into the ring. There was an implication of plagiarism from a woman who wrote a memoir about being groomed and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #metoo, abuse, boarding school, child abuse, debut novel, grooming, guilt, imbalance of power, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Lolita, nabokov, Pale Fire, poetry, Power, responsibility, scandal, Sexual Assault, trauma

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #metoo, abuse, boarding school, child abuse, debut novel, grooming, guilt, imbalance of power, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Lolita, nabokov, Pale Fire, poetry, Power, responsibility, scandal, Sexual Assault, trauma ·
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Like if Blade Runner 2049 Sent You

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

August 29, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

I love it when a piece of art is so great that I don’t fully understand what it is, but I know it’s really good and really cool. The movie Blade Runner 2049 was like that for me. Director Denis Villeneuve always impresses and entertains, and his take on the Blade Runner world was great. I can’t wait to see what he does with Dune. While trying to learn more about Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, I learned that Nabokov’s Pale Fire was included overtly and subtle […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Blade Runner 2049, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Blade Runner 2049, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov ·
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A fantastic farrago of evil

August 10, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book has some serious payoff at the end, and of course a wonderful fake index that clarifies and makes everything right. If you don’t know this one, this is a novel in the form of an academic annotation of a long poem. The poem itself is a 1000 (technically 999) line poem about a pastoral and academic life, love and marriage, childhood, parenting, death. Like what most poems are about, with a kind of erudition and educated set of allusions. The notes on this […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:328 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov ·
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