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> Tag: Robert Coover

Grab Bag

Mine by Robert M McCammon

Boathouse by Jon Fosse

Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? by Robert Coover

The Miranda Obsession by Jen Silverman

Tell Her Story by Margot Hunt

Zaddy by Sarah Ramos

Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington

Dear Seraphina by Avery Bishop

Benarnda's Daughters by Diane Exavier

The Wrong One by Dervla McTiernan

Tisoy by Berneice McFadden

May 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Mine – 3/5 Stars Ahhhh, 1990. It’s weird to think about how little cultural cache SDS, Weather Underground, and other Leftist groups from the 1960s and 1970s have any more when talked about in media products. This book is not exactly about a Leftist group, but more of a kind of amalgamation of these types of groups, separatists groups like the Symbionese Liberation Army, and even the Manson Family. In Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi describes the Mansons as “Right-wing hippies” and I think, in the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Avery Bishop, Berneice McFadden, Caroline Overington, dervla mctiernan, Diane Exavier, Jen Silverman, Jon Fosse, Margot Hunt, Robert Coover, Robert M McCammon, Sarah Ramos

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:215 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Avery Bishop, Berneice McFadden, Caroline Overington, dervla mctiernan, Diane Exavier, Jen Silverman, Jon Fosse, Margot Hunt, Robert Coover, Robert M McCammon, Sarah Ramos ·
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Thanksgiving Short Books

The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nahisi Coates

Buck by MK Asante

Yellow-Back Radio Brokedown by Ishmael Reed

Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara

The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes

The Double Helix by James Watson

Pafko at the Wall by Don Delillo

Williwaw by Gore Vidal

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon

The Mahe Circle by Georges Simenon

The Hand by Georges Simenon

The Engagement by Georges Simenon

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Promise by Damon Galgut

Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk

Gerald's Party by Robert Coover

November 23, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Beautiful Struggle – 5/5  Stars I never taught in Baltimore City, but I did teach in Baltimore County, where Ta-Nehisi Coates spends part of high school. (I was two schools over, but the idea was pretty much the same there). So the result is some familiarity here. If I ever met Ta-Nehisi Coates, I think what I would want to tell him is when I was brand new to Baltimore, so when I scheduled my meeting with the MVA (DMV) I went to the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History Tagged With: Che Guevara, Chester Himes, chuck palahniuk, Damon Galgut, Don DeLillo, georges simenon, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, James Watson, MK Asante, Robert Coover, Ta-Nahisi Coates, yasunari kawabata

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:481 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History · Tags: Che Guevara, Chester Himes, chuck palahniuk, Damon Galgut, Don DeLillo, georges simenon, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, James Watson, MK Asante, Robert Coover, Ta-Nahisi Coates, yasunari kawabata ·
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Dice Games

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover

February 18, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

After he gets home from work, 56-year-old accountant J. Henry Waugh entertains himself with a simulated baseball game based on dice rolls and probability charts. As a kid who spent many a rainy summer afternoon playing Strat-O-Matic baseball, the concept was very familiar to me. However, unlike Strat-O-Matic, Henry’s game involves an entirely fictional league. All the teams and all the players on them are his invention. When he plays he rolls the dice for both teams and meticulously records every play on his scoresheets. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Robert Coover

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Robert Coover ·
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Bottom half of the seventh, Brock’s boy had made it through another innings unscratched, one! two! three!

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover

May 27, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a fun and fantastic book that immediately sent me to wikipedia to read up on Role Playing Games. In the opening chapter we find ourselves immediately in a close play by play narration of a baseball game, a potential perfect game thrown incredibly by a rookie pitcher on the night his retired baseball legend father had been honored. As we slowly make our way out of the game, we pull back to realize that what we’re actually watching in the inventive imagination of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Robert Coover, the universal baseball association inc j henry waugh prop

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:295 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Robert Coover, the universal baseball association inc j henry waugh prop ·
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In a sense, omnipotence is a form of impotence.

June 19, 2018 by vel veeter 1 Comment

There’s about three or four stories in this novel that function the same way as “The Babysitter”, the most famous and probably best story in this collection. This story takes place on a typical suburban night where the kids are at home with a babysitter, the mom and dad are at a neighbor’s party, and the babysitter’s boyfriend and friend are plotting to come over for some fun. But then the story slices up the various possible narrative threads and plays them all out one […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: going for a beer, Robert Coover

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:210 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: going for a beer, Robert Coover ·
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What he did not expect was to find himself standing on the night of Saturday the eighteenth—the Night, as it turned out, of the Sacrifice—in a ditch alongside the old road to Deepwater Number Nine Coalmine, watching a young girl die.

June 4, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is Robert Coover’s first novel; it came out in 1966. The copy I read was pulled from the library stacks and is a first edition, with a nondescript front cover in brown, with the picture of the white bird you can see in other covers from other editions. This novel begins in a kind of present tense, seeing the quote from my title above, at what becomes a human sacrifice for a religious cult in an unnamed state, but is seemingly the coal mining […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Robert Coover, the origin of the brunists

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:176 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Robert Coover, the origin of the brunists ·
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