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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

May 24, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Jeanie and Julius have spent their entire lives together. Over half a century of life together has passed, and they have never spent an entire night separate from each other. Jeanie tends the garden with their mother, Dot, and Julius works odd jobs in the village. Jeanie, Julius, and Dot depend fiercely on one another. They accept nothing from the outside world- at least, Jeanie and Julius spent the last 51 years believing that they were accepting nothing and indebted to no one but each […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ARC, Britain, claire fuller, family, family secrets, farm life, galley club, poverty, rural life, secrets, survival, tin house, tin house galley club, tragedy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ARC, Britain, claire fuller, family, family secrets, farm life, galley club, poverty, rural life, secrets, survival, tin house, tin house galley club, tragedy ·
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Manipulated Into Caring

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

July 10, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

For a tale of four siblings bound together by a traumatic experience with a fortune teller when they were young, The Immortalists is not terribly enthralling. Varya, Simon, Klara, and Daniel, the siblings, meet an old woman in a cramped and hot apartment. They have saved up and pooled their allowance; they overheard other kids in the neighborhood saying that “the woman on Hester Street” could tell you the date of your death. She gives gives our fearless foursome their dates; they do not share them with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Chloe Benjamin, family issues, fortune telling, magic, regret, siblings, tragedy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:74 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Chloe Benjamin, family issues, fortune telling, magic, regret, siblings, tragedy ·
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“When you’re a kid, it’s hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.”

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

March 13, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Karen Russell was just 25 when this collection came out; a fact that is plastered all over the cover, festooned in blurbs throughout the opening pages, and the header on almost every piece of criticism that was launched at the same time as this collection. Her youth is/was impressive, and most certainly made me look back at my 25-year-old self with pity, but her youth is not the spark that sets this fire. She may have been young, but her ability to give voice to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: coming-of-age, Karen Russell, magical realism, melancholy, Southern Gothic, swamplandia!, tourist trap, tragedy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: coming-of-age, Karen Russell, magical realism, melancholy, Southern Gothic, swamplandia!, tourist trap, tragedy ·
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What is happening?

The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

January 19, 2020 by randirock Leave a Comment

I’m not even sure where to start with this one. Typically, I would summarize the plot, but I’m not sure I know what happened. I may have fallen asleep and missed something, but I’ll give it a whirl – A quirky family of six live in a house. Their family seems to revolve around their Easter celebration, until one year, tragedy strikes. Mother and Father divorce. They split the house in two and Father moves next door. Mother invites her girlfriend and her child to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: family, hoarding, Lisa Jewell, suicide, tragedy

randirock's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: family, hoarding, Lisa Jewell, suicide, tragedy ·
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This fire left me feeling tepid

Home Fire and Antigone by Kamila Shamsie and Sophocles

May 9, 2018 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I don’t normally take advice from the interwebs, but when I took a short “what should you read next quiz” that was posted to the CBR book chat page, the resulting recommendation intrigued me. Home Fire was described as a retelling of Antigone set in modern-day London. I haven’t read any Greek tragedy since high school, so I thought this could make an interesting study, to compare the classic with the modern. I have to confess, Greek tragedies were never my thing. I ate up all manner […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, classics, Greek tragedy, Kamila Shamsie, KimMiE", modern retellings, Political Fiction, Sophocles, tragedy

KimMiE"'s CBR10 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, classics, Greek tragedy, Kamila Shamsie, KimMiE", modern retellings, Political Fiction, Sophocles, tragedy ·
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A 5 star book with a major caveat.

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

August 16, 2017 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

Every Last One is about a mother with three teenage children. They all have very realistic teenage concerns and dramas. There’s depression in the mix, an eating disorder, relationship problems, very well-written dynamics between the kids and their friends and significant others and how they all interplay. Mary Beth’s marriage isn’t really the point but there’s also some very subtle but very real commentary on being married for a long time. The parents are each doing their best to figure out how to effectively parent […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #death by adverb, Depression, every last one, family, Fiction, mary quindlen, mothers, tragedy

Blingle Bells's CBR9 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #death by adverb, Depression, every last one, family, Fiction, mary quindlen, mothers, tragedy ·
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