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Doug’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Doug’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Doug Jordan
Goodreads Author
Born
Peterborough, Canada
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Mark Twain, Stephen Leacock, Peter Mayle;
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Member Since
February 2012
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The Maxim Chronicles
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The Treasure of Stella Bay
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2021
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The Dynamics of Management
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2016
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The Hallelujah Chorus
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2017
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Alex' Choice
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Travels With Myself
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2020
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Amitié, A Novel
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My Story, Mostly
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Beyond the Gate: Poetry and Photography
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25.22 Care for the Caregivers
[This is the sixth (and last) in a series of articles from Guest Writer Catherine Mossop narrating her husband, Brian’s, journey with the dispiriting effects of dementia, likely Alzheimer’s Disease. In our last installment – Musical Mind – we read of the relief Catherine, and Brian’s friend Jeff, felt when Brian, despite being in late stages of his affliction, picked up his harmonica and played, a
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary:
"I can't recommend this enough. Fascinating, humor-full and very readable. You wouldn't think this would be funny, but it is. I mean laugh-out-loud funny. Maybe I'm a complete nerd but this is fascinating and fun and full of things you don't need to k"
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| Sharp incisive writing style, loaded with current facts and incidents (which will become rapidly dated) it paints a vivid picture of what is wrong with Canada. Unfortunately, Hopper offers no solutions. | |
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“I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.”
― More Happy Than Not
― More Happy Than Not
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
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“But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.”
― Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
― Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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