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So I guess I panicked from the word go.

October 25, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Bus on Thursday – 4/5 Stars This was an audiobook and I hadn’t heard of it before I looked a little into and downloaded it from Overdrive. Also, had this not been Australian I might not have listened to it, and had I read the back I wouldn’t either. I also almost turned it off early on because of a kind of off-key line that I didn’t like. But something clicked in my experience at some point and I ended up really liking it. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alice McDermott, charming billy, cristina garcia, god bless you mr rosewater, here in berlin, his favorites, Home, jr ackerley, Kate Walbert, kurt vonnegut, Marilynne Robinson, Paula Fox, shirley barrett, the bus on thursday, the slave dancer, we think the world of you

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:381 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alice McDermott, charming billy, cristina garcia, god bless you mr rosewater, here in berlin, his favorites, Home, jr ackerley, Kate Walbert, kurt vonnegut, Marilynne Robinson, Paula Fox, shirley barrett, the bus on thursday, the slave dancer, we think the world of you ·
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