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Colin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Colin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Colin Greenland’s Followers (78)
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Colin Greenland
Goodreads Author
Born
in Dover, The United Kingdom
May 17, 1954
Genre
Influences
Member Since
August 2011
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Take Back Plenty (Tabitha Jute, #1)
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1990
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20 editions
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Harm's Way
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1993
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14 editions
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Seasons of Plenty (Tabitha Jute, #2)
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1995
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12 editions
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The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British "New Wave" in Science Fiction
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1983
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11 editions
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Mother of Plenty (Tabitha Jute, #3)
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1998
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7 editions
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Daybreak on a Different Mountain (Daybreak, #1)
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2013
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6 editions
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The Plenty Principle
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2013
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4 editions
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The Hour of the Thin Ox (Daybreak, #2)
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2013
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5 editions
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Other Voices (Daybreak, #3)
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1988
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6 editions
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Spiritfeather (Dreamtime, #4)
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2000
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Colin’s Recent Updates
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I enjoyed this very much, and can't give it all five stars only because he's a tricky writer and for most of the book I assumed I was reading something much artier, more meta and more deceptive than it turned out to be. Halfway through I had convince ...more |
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"Still amazes how a socially awkward young woman, living in relative isolation, could write a novel that, technically and psychologically, knocks most other fiction into the long grass. Still amazes me how many people read it, and get it completely wr"
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I've just this minute finished reading an unusual, unguessable novel that, in the end, turns out to be that same question, posed and finally, on behal
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“Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader’s desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That’s called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.”
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“Sometimes he tries to catch her, wading frantically through earth that has turned to water, or sometimes through air. Sometimes she tries to catch him. They never catch each other, no matter what.”
― The Sandman: Book of Dreams
― The Sandman: Book of Dreams
“Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.”
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“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
