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I Knew I’d Seen This Movie Before!

The Skin of Dreams by Raymond Queneau

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cbr17bingo  Play Written in 1944 by French surrealist author Queneau, this is the story of a man, Jacques, who lives in, as the cover blurb says, waking dreams.  He seamlessly transitions from chatting with his friends to imagining himself in a certain situation, and then back to everyday life.  I was about a quarter of the way through when I realized that I had seen this movie before.  And sure enough, in the afterword, the author reveals that he was highly influenced by the James […]

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

We Always Treat Women too Well by Raymond Queneau

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

I, Autohouse by Gish Jen

American Santa by Vanessa Hua

One More Hour by Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker

My Therapist, My Lover by Cris Beam

Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Adichie

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The Sense of an Ending – 4/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago, and in the reread I like it a lot better now than I did then. I do think the plot goes a little off the rails but the narration, the narrator, the character development are all alive and rich, and so beautifully and painfully rendered. There’s a lot of emotional tenderness, sadness, pain, anger, and spirit here. Our narrator is a man in his late fifties or early […]



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