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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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| This is my 50th—and final—book of 2025, and a strong one to end the year on. Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief is a tense, tightly structured novel set in a near-future Kolkata on the brink of collapse. When Ma’s immigration documents are stole ...more | |
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Charles wrote: "Drop it off next time you're in town"
I think you'd really enjoy this one. And if you do audiobooks, the author is also the reader. ...more " |
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| James Rebanks’s The Place of Tides is a quietly compelling book, and one I found myself lingering over. The heart of it is Anna—an elderly woman living alone on a remote Norwegian island, tending eider ducks and gathering their down in a practice tha ...more | |
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| Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional is a quietly luminous novel, and one that surprised me in the best way. As a non-believer, I found the premise—of a woman with no faith joining a convent—immediately intriguing. What the book offers, though, is ...more | |
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“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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