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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Robert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Not that I know of, but I have had books disappear and then reappear a few days later, so I’m not shocked it happened. Glad you’re back.
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood
by Haley Cohen Gilliland (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite History & Biography |
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So much contemporary literary fiction seems to believe it must reinvent the form in order to be taken seriously. Benjamin Wood’s Seascraper quietly ignores that impulse—and is all the better for it. This is a novel that does what novels have always do ...more |
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| Several years ago, I read Les Payne’s The Dead Are Arising, which gave me my first truly in-depth understanding of Malcolm X’s life and assassination. Growing up in the 1960s, political assassination was a grim fact of public life, but Payne’s biogra ...more | |
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction, Readers' Favorite Debut Novel, Readers' Favorite Audiobook |
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People Like Us
by Jason Mott (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction |
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| My first read of 2026 was Joseph O’Connor’s The Ghosts of Rome, and it turned out to be a very rewarding way to start the year. This was also my first encounter with O’Connor’s work, and even without having read the earlier novel in the trilogy, I fo ...more | |
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| My first read of 2026 was Joseph O’Connor’s The Ghosts of Rome, and it turned out to be a very rewarding way to start the year. This was also my first encounter with O’Connor’s work, and even without having read the earlier novel in the trilogy, I fo ...more | |
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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