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David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Allen
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| My fourth RAH juvenile is my least favorite. I like the lead character, a teen who was born in space and isn't technically a citizen of Earth, Mars or Venus. Intrigue early on involves a cheap-looking ring for which he is asked to be a courier and wh ...more | |
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Our Lady of the Angels: The Virgin of Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles
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| Street photographs of Virgin of Guadalupe murals on storefronts around L.A.: markets, convenience stores, tire shops and more. The spiritual images offered protection from the world's ills and from gang graffiti, messing with the Virgin being general ...more | |
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| We've no doubt learned much more about desert wildlife in the 75 years since Jaeger's book was published, but it's mildly enjoyable reading even for a non-naturalist. His field observations of nests being built, kit foxes at play or bugs drawn to his ...more | |
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| Tomine replies to questions from readers about cartooning, his work for the New Yorker, his themes, screenwriting and comics, accompanied by illustrations and photos. As a fan since his book 32 Stories, I'm the right audience for this, but even at th ...more | |
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| Alice turns 40, goes to sleep and wakes up 16, her writer father a hale 49 instead of unconscious in a hospital. At heart this is a father-daughter love story, with time travel built into the plot: What if you could go back to save a parent, or just ...more | |
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| Even as a classic SF fan, one who had enjoyed the recent movie adaptations, I'd never thought seriously about reading Dune until a friend gave me a copy, which forced the issue. It turns out, it's fascinating. Understanding it or visualizing it is ea ...more | |
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| Four stories, each 50 to 60 pages, all starring Philip Marlowe: "Trouble is My Business," "Finger Man," "Goldfish" and "Red Wind." The pleasure isn't in the plots, which aren't easy to follow and wouldn't repay the attention anyway. The delights are ...more | |
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| Picked this up for free at a coffeehouse where someone had donated a bag full of Beat books. I have a positive view of Ginsberg as an artist and creative spirit but I can't say this book of early poems, before he'd found his voice, did anything for m ...more | |
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| This novel captures the first year of the pandemic. We follow a group of traveling nurses, who render care through multiple masks and PPE, live alone in trailers near the hospital, smoke on breaks to relieve stress and are handed donuts by grateful s ...more | |
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| Jelly Roll Morton's long-unheard 1938 recording of a 30-minute murder ballad, with remarkably frank language, leads Elijah Wald to explore how blues and jazz developed. Among the topics: how songs may have differed in live performance depending on th ...more | |