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Ginger’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ginger’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ginger Bensman
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Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, John Irving
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Ginger Bensman
To write - not because you want to be a writer, but because you love to write.
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To Swim Beneath the Earth
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| I loved every thought provoking, thought explaining moment of Michael Pollan's ponderings on consciousness, the literary quality of the language, the explorations of different perspectives. I loved the way it made me think and wonder. Now I am going ...more | |
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| I found The Missing Pages to be an engaging historical novel - part ghost story, part mystery. The story follows two timelines. I listened to the audiobook. I think I would have enjoyed it more on the page. | |
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"I have loved Alyson Richman's novels in the past and went into it thinking it would be a home run. This has all the elements of a fantastic novel with themes of the power of books, love and legacy, loss and grief, tragedy, the supernatural. I enjoyed"
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| Beautiful writing. A deep and thoughtful exploration of love , sudden loss, and grief, and the ways the author made space for herself and came to terms with cherishing her memories and saying goodbye to the love of her life. | |
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| A murder mystery as lyrical as an Irish ballad with a memorable cast of quirky and engaging characters, many among them ghosts. Jess Kidd is a spectacular writer and I’m hooked. I’m on board to read everything she’s written. | |
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| Pardonable Lies is the second Maisie Dobbs detective novel I have read. This was an engaging story with well-drawn characters and settings. I especially enjoyed the time period and more exploration of Maisie's backstory. ...more | |
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Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer:
"2016.08.19–2016.09.04
The Long Now Clock/Library is a project to do to our sense of time what a full photograph of the Earth ("Big Here") did to our sense of space: remind us of the bigger picture. Together they are the Long Here, which is an awesomel" Read more of this review » |
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Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer:
"The Clock of the Long Now is an attempt by a group of forward thinkers --engineers, futurists, visionaries--to create a device to stimulate people to take a longer view of time. An actual physical clock that will "time" the next 10,000 years. Why ten"
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| Moving On is a beautiful and affecting novel about grief, regret, and yes, moving on. The sense of loss here and yearning are palpable. I recommended this one to my book club! Sara Steger, I hope you are at work on your next novel. | |
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| Death in Venice is the first book I have read by Thomas Mann. It reads like each sentence is etched in stone-beautiful and perfect and inevitable. Gustav Aschenbach, acclaimed critic and connoisseur, is aging and at a dull point in his career, in des ...more | |
“An airport is a potent place, a point of reunions and departures. For the traveler, it's a crossroads at the moment of decision, a flashpoint that separates intention from retreat.”
― To Swim Beneath the Earth
― To Swim Beneath the Earth
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“Writing is a time honored moment. When the writer breathes life into the characters and gives them a place in the reader’s heart. Characters capture us in their embrace and we take refuge in their lives in a world of uncertainties.”
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“I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.”
― Bride of the Rat God
― Bride of the Rat God
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Leonide wrote: "Hi Ginger, I'm gearing up for my next print book release (March 2018) and want to increase my Followers. I just became your Follower today, wondering if you could return the favor? Have you seen th..."Hi Lennie, I think I already follow you. When I go to your profile and click on the follow, the choice that come up is "unfollow" so I think I'm already on board. Your print release sounds exciting and Ann Patchett is one of my favorite authors:)
Hi Ginger, I'm gearing up for my next print book release (March 2018) and want to increase my Followers. I just became your Follower today, wondering if you could return the favor? Have you seen the Goodreads/Book Fairies "Hide a Book Day?" Sounds like fun, I'm participating. BTW, I want to read Bel Canto. Cheers! Lennie
Thank you so much, Ginger, for ordering Night Cruiser. I hope you enjoy it! I'm working on my next book, Blood Seed, which I hope to get out this fall. It's the first in a series, Coin of Rulve.
