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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
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Under Minnesota Skies: John and Dorothy Hondl Family History and Farm Memories
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| Absolutely delightful -- the type of family novel that I have come to expect from Anne Tyler. A quick read, I was almost sorry when it was over as Gail Baines and her ex-husband, Max navigate the three days of their only daughter's wedding. All the a ...more | |
"Anne Tyler always manages to turn the ordinary, the mundane, into extraordinary and imaginative, with her observations on the minutiae of life.
‘Three Days in June’ follows Gail Baines’s story for three days, as she faces a crisis in her working life," Read more of this review » |
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"I can hardly wait for 2025 after reading one amazing book after another! I have to say, this has become my favorite Anne Tyler book. When I finished the last chapter, my eyes welled up, and I sighed with happiness as a wide smile spread across my fac"
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| Absolutely delightful -- the type of family novel that I have come to expect from Anne Tyler. A quick read, I was almost sorry when it was over as Gail Baines and her ex-husband, Max navigate the three days of their only daughter's wedding. All the a ...more | |
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| I have been a Biden supporter for many years and was among the many who felt betrayed and let down when he said he would run again in 2024. He was too old. Still, I knew he was an upright man who had put country before personal many times and was the ...more | |
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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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| A great read for the sport and non-sport fan alike. Thomas Fuller, a hearing person, uses football to give the reader, as best he can, an intimate look into the world of nonhearing high school football players, coaches, their families at the Californ ...more | |
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| I enjoyed this in-depth look at the making of Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen's break through rock and roll album in the mid 70s. Peter Carlin adds depth and context to Springsteen's own memoir, Born to Run, that I found amazing. Carlin knows how to m ...more | |
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| I have been a Biden supporter for many years and was among the many who felt betrayed and let down when he said he would run again in 2024. He was too old. Still, I knew he was an upright man who had put country before personal many times and was the ...more | |
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| I enjoyed this in-depth look at the making of Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen's break through rock and roll album in the mid 70s. Peter Carlin adds depth and context to Springsteen's own memoir, Born to Run, that I found amazing. Carlin knows how to m ...more | |
“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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