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William’s 2024 Year in Books
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Three Brightnesses: The Quintessential Story of Learning Chinese and Falling in Love in China—Over and Over Again
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| A lushly written parable whose moral simplicity borders on parody by stabbing at seriousness so hard and missing so decisively, this novella has but one interesting and redeeming quality—the heft and grain of its imagery and really nothing more. | |
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| Well written at points, but the level of detail Golding brings to bear in repeated conversations about the fire, the beasties, the pink granite, pig hunts, the swimming, the meetings about nothing…and his annoying writerly tics (how many times can an ...more | |
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William Shoemaker
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his review
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The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
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Give yourself an hour and skim it! 😂
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William Shoemaker
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| As with Hesse’s other word this is beautifully and plainly written and contains kernels of wisdom that want to stay with the reader; the detachedness of the book however and its ambivalent connection to the history of Buddhism (the story seems to be ...more | |
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William Shoemaker
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Kimberly Lynne's review
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1):
"With Butler's stellar reputation and SOWER's high rating on GR, I hoped for so much more from this classic of post-apoc dystopian.
If you venture into this work, expect some of the flattest prose out there. "..I found Curtis and took him back to the " Read more of this review » |
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| Nicely narrated and cleanly written, but a somewhat flat and predictable post-apocalyptic story with some underwhelming jabs at philosophy and meaning-making. | |
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| What a steaming pile of bullshit. I bought this book after reading Luis Elizondo’s book “Imminent.” Elizondo mentions Swann and remote viewing several times and seems to find him credible. Swann is indeed really good at weaving a skein of half-truths ...more | |
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| The middle book in McCourt’s memoir trilogy. Like the others, this is a charming, funny, touching tour through the life of a born storyteller. It’s not as sad as Angela’s Ashes and not quite as funny as Teacherman—but the plot of ‘Tis moves more bris ...more | |
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| A highly skimmable self-help book that takes a good core idea and stretches it out to book-length presumably for marketing purposes. This whole book could have been expressed in a ten-page pamphlet; that said, the core idea is one I think everyone sh ...more | |
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| A beautifully written memoir/family history about a Hmong (Laotian) family’s escape from persecution in Laos/Thailand after the Vietnam War and their eventual path to life in America. The book itself is excellent right up to roughly midway, when it s ...more | |
Always wondered what happened to you after I closed 23rd Ave Books! Had no idea you wrote a book! Congrats! 🎉