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Rick Gekoski

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Rick Gekoski


Born
in Saint Louis, Missouri, The United States
August 25, 1944

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Average rating: 3.54 · 1,592 ratings · 262 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
Darke
3.63 avg rating — 548 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions
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Tolkien's Gown & Other Stor...
3.78 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions
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Lost, Stolen or Shredded: S...
3.50 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions
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Nabokov's Butterfly: And Ot...
3.62 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Guarded by Dragons: Encount...
3.69 avg rating — 133 ratings — 6 editions
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A Long Island Story
2.89 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions
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Darke Matter: A Novel
3.49 avg rating — 89 ratings — 5 editions
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Outside of a Dog: A Bibliom...
3.25 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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After Darke
3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings — 4 editions
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Staying Up
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions
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“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of love.”
― Rick Gekoski, Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar
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“You can't simply put a book down or away.”
― Rick Gekoski, Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar
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“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.”
― Rick Gekoski, Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar
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