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Grab Bag

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascensia

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

Mountain by Cixin Liu

The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakmi

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson

Homecoming by Eddie Huang

The Matchlock Rifle by Walter Edmonds

Two Logs Crossing by Walter Edmonds

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

July 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Mortality – 4/5 Stars This is a partial memoir and final notes first published by Vanity Fair and then in book form from the final days of Christopher Hitchens. There’s a part in the middle of every thing where someone tells Hitchens something like “God works in mysterious ways” and Hitchens wonders what is so mysterious about a heavy smoker getting advanced lung cancer. That’s the basic idea here. First things first, it’s not secret that Hitchens is a bit of a bugbear, and for […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: adapt, cbr14bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Christopher Hitchens, cixin liu, Eddie Huang, hans christian anderson, haruki murakami, Haruki Murakmi, Salvador Plascensia, Sun Tzu, Walter Edmonds, Washington Irving, william maxwell

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:383 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: adapt, cbr14bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Christopher Hitchens, cixin liu, Eddie Huang, hans christian anderson, haruki murakami, Haruki Murakmi, Salvador Plascensia, Sun Tzu, Walter Edmonds, Washington Irving, william maxwell ·
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Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

October 10, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This post comes to you from the stack of books I decided I would read at school while my students read, and then donate them after.   They Came Like Swallows – 4/5 Stars This short novel from 1937 is about a family in Illinois in 1914-1918 or so amid the First World War, and then the outbreak of the Spanish Flu. This is story is told in a third person narration, but closely aligned to the perspective of first the youngest brother, Bunny, then […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a lucky man, a perfect hoax, italo svevo, jamel brinkley, they came like swallows, william maxwell

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:358 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a lucky man, a perfect hoax, italo svevo, jamel brinkley, they came like swallows, william maxwell ·
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