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Bernadette’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Bernadette’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Bernadette Hondl Thomasy
Goodreads Author
Born
in Owatonna, Minnesota, The United States
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September 2008
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Under Minnesota Skies: John and Dorothy Hondl Family History and Farm Memories
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| Elinor Lipman's quirky but memorable cast of characters love to talk about each other and, like most families, can't keep secrets. That leads to trouble but it makes a fun read and probably is even better in audio with the right voices bantering and ...more | |
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| Who needs historical fiction when you can have David Grann tell you the real story or at least provide understanding of the many conflicting versions of an event? Such is the case with The Wager, a remarkable pulling together of research on the 1740s ...more | |
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Bernadette
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457 other people
liked
Karen's review
of
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again:
"PLEASE NOTE: I would be exceedingly grateful that if you are a Trump supporter that you bypass reading and commenting on my review. I honestly have no tolerance for what you have done to our country by voting for Trump or continuing to support him. E"
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Bernadette
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| Listening to The Quiet Librarian was intense as a Bosnian Muslim woman relives the horrors she experienced in 1995 during the war between Bosnia and Serbia. I knew very little about the conflict but Allen Eskens brings the wartime personal trauma to ...more | |
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Bernadette
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Colleen’s review
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The War at Home: Minnesota during the Great War, 1914–1920
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This does sound fascinating, but I will learn from your good summary and am not likely to read it. I do see lots of relevance to today's political tur
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"If you want to learn about tumultuous times in Minnesota around the time of the Great War, Gaut's book has to be the prime resource. He spent about ten years writing this but I can understand why. The research is detailed, meticulous, and includes ma"
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Bernadette
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72 other people
liked
Blake's review
of
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House:
"This book was an interesting read, but the author hopped all over the place when telling stories so it was hard to follow. A couple of times, I felt I had already read the same "story." Having said that, I enjoyed the stories and learning which first"
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Bernadette
voted for
Finding My Way
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Readers' Favorite Memoir
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Bernadette
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| Yes, Twist is amazing. Set at the bottom of the oceans where underwater glass cables carry most of our computer messages, pictures, commerce and modern communications, McCann's novel delivers an intriguing story about the men making the repairs when ...more | |
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Agree with your comment: If you only read one book in 2025, make sure this is the one. Superb in every way.
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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Seeing come before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
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But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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