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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.
Ginger Bensman’s Followers (63)
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Ginger Bensman
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Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, John Irving
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April 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/dispatchesfromamessydesk
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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 this on Audible! The characters, the time, the place, the people! And now I want to listen to it all over again. | |
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The setting is the star of this novel - beautiful, desolate, forboding, hostile, and bitterly cold. The characters in this one kept me at arms-length and I never quite bought into the central mystery/suspense. |
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| This book! Sybil Van Antwerp became such a friend and presence. I loved The Correspondent. It touched me in such a lovely and visceral way! | |
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| An enjoyable read from start to finish. I loved the story, the characters, the setting. This was my first Rhys Bowen novel. It won't be my last. ...more | |
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future:
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4.5 stars In her 2015 book 'The Sixth Extinction', author Elizabeth Kolbert sounds the alarm about humans imperiling the Earth in the current 'Age of Man' - dubbed the Anthropocene.  Kolbert observes that humans have transformed more than half the ice-" Read more of this review » |
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Henk's review
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future:
"On Barack Obama his reading list 2021 📖
A book about people trying to solve problems created by people who created problems when trying to solve other problems Pissing your pants will only keep you warm for so long A fascinating peek at geo engineering" Read more of this review » |
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"I love George Saunders so this review is completely biased. You've been warned.
This book has it all - - wit, incredible insights into the human condition, pathos, satire, and a big (capital B big) theme. At first, the plot itself didn't really grab m" Read more of this review » |
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| Peter Grainger is one of my favorite writers of detective novels. His DC Smith series is always an immersive pleasure (great characters with a solid and interesting plot.) The Camera Man lives up to its predecessors! | |
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| Lucy by the Sea is a moving meditation on what it is to be alive, to suffer loss, to be present in the moment (even confusing sad powerless moments) and the primacy of caring and compassion. This was exactly the book I wanted / needed to read right n ...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.
