The number was getting old, so now it’s done away with. Here’s this month’s batch of tidily haiku-ed reviews:
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Cold Snap
Jones breaks no new ground
some stories strong, others, eh…
good enough encore
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I Curse the River of Time
book like a painting?
atmospheric? yes. good? no.
Nico no likey
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Richard Yates
experimental
written in email/IM
sounds aggravating
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Tess’s Tree
by a local guy
not unlike The Giving Tree
but it’s not as good
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You Lost Me There
character study
better than Per Petterson’s
it explores regret
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Before Night Falls
gripping, harrowing
a crazy biography
did you see the film?
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Halloween/Omens
two books of poems
Dave did interview Gallo
what’s nostalgician?
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Freedom
worth all the flapping
sean read this in two sittings
great but not perfect
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Faithful Place
more of the same here
some things done better, some worse
don’t get psyched for more
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Mary
Nabokov’s first book
carries some Proustian weight
good, but sober, read
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