Tag: chris bachelder
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2024 Tournament of Books: Blackouts/Dayswork vs Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Semifinal time! I start with my Alternate Reality Where the matchup is between Dayswork and Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. We have an experimental novel against an exemplar of a straightforward narrative, and to be honest, putting these two up against each other, I found I was just in the mood for a straight narrative. Actual reality…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Blackouts/Boys Weekend vs Dayswork
Today, we start the quarterfinals. I’ve talked about all of the books now, so here, I’m going to start focusing on the head-to-head matchups. Of course, the fact that there was a difference of opinion on what books should have moved on the first matchup. So I will start with Alternative history In my opinion,…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Dayswork vs Cold People
Cold People starts as a possible romantic comedy: an American college student is vacationing with her family in Lisbon and accepts an invitation for a private boat tour with a local who feels they have a strange connection. And then. Aliens. The aliens serve largely as a huge plot device: All of humanity is given…