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Bryan Fox

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March 2019


Average rating: 5.0 · 7 ratings · 3 reviews · 2 distinct works
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The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball
The Repeat Room
by Jesse Ball (Goodreads Author)
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I have, at times, enjoyed Jesse Ball's absurdist fictional creations. He knows how to create a dreamlike world and inhabit it with just enough humanity to keep the reader invested in feeling something. However, this book didn't work for me.

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There There by Tommy Orange
There There
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I always enjoy fiction told from the perspective of a subculture you don't often hear from. This book, a collection of vignettes from Native Americans in Oakland, paints vivid character sketches of its broad cast of characters, gradually drawing them ...more
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The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
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Sometimes a story is so wild that any recounting of it is worth hearing. This tale, of a French man who kills his wife, children, and parents to hide what was a 20-year long deception regarding almost every aspect of his professional life (with healt ...more
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Playworld by Adam Ross
Playworld
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An immense, sprawling coming-0f-age period piece novel which is simultaneously a memoir, an ode to adolescence, and a love letter to Old New York. Full of cinematic scenes (it exists somewhere at the confluence of Wonder Boys, Rushmore, and The Perks ...more
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The Wager by David Grann
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Better Late Than Never by J.M. Newsome
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I read this because a school I'm working for assigned it as a required text for a class I'm teaching this semester. I have no problem assigning adult texts to adult learners, but I struggle to understand how Cambridge felt that including this book in ...more
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Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa
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I always welcome fiction told from a new perspective, and this short novel, about a group of Thai American workers in a nail salon (the story's narrator is one of them), certainly qualifies as a new perspective.

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The Most Beautiful Stories of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
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The illustrations are beautiful, but a century after their initial publication, most of these stories are close to literal nonsense/gibberish. They aren't really witty or memorable, they don't have morals, and some don't even have plots or endings. I ...more
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The Most Beautiful Stories of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
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The illustrations are beautiful, but a century after their initial publication, most of these stories are close to literal nonsense/gibberish. They aren't really witty or memorable, they don't have morals, and some don't even have plots or endings. I ...more
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