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Miles’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Miles’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Miles Watson
Goodreads Author
Born
Evanston, Illinois, The United States
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Influences
George Orwell, Lawrence Sanders, Herman Wouk, Frank Herbert, John Kobl
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Member Since
February 2016
MY FATHER'S NOTEBOOKS
Today I came upon the last of my father's notebooks. I used to have quite the trove of them in this drawer, but this one is the last.
The notebooks are, or were, made by a company named Citadel. They are spiral, 4 x 6 inches, narrow ruled, 40 sheets to a book, with cardboard covers that come in colors like white, pale yellow, pale blue, and dark green. This one, the last one, is deep red. I don't k Read more of this blog post »
The notebooks are, or were, made by a company named Citadel. They are spiral, 4 x 6 inches, narrow ruled, 40 sheets to a book, with cardboard covers that come in colors like white, pale yellow, pale blue, and dark green. This one, the last one, is deep red. I don't k Read more of this blog post »
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is 50% done with The Jewel of Seven Stars: The story finally picked up -- not surprisingly, when it shifted away from England to Egypt. I've seen two different cinematic adaptations of this book so I know it's not a traditional "mummy" story in any sense of the word but hey, it's still about a mummy's curse, so we NEED Egypt, tombs, treasures and horrible deaths resulting from violations of same.
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is 30% done with The Jewel of Seven Stars
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| UNDISPUTED TRUTH is the template for a very good book partially ruined by insufficient editing. The first few hundred pages of this tell-all autobiography rip along at a blistering pace. The last two hundred slog through addiction, relapse, recovery. ...more | |
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| UNDISPUTED TRUTH is the template for a very good book partially ruined by insufficient editing. The first few hundred pages of this tell-all autobiography rip along at a blistering pace. The last two hundred slog through addiction, relapse, recovery. ...more | |
"SOMETHING EVIL: Volume I is a dark and intense horror story that combines slasher brutality, supernatural terror, and psychological suspense into a gripping reading experience.
What stood out most was the ominous atmosphere surrounding the return of " Read more of this review » |
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"Something Evil: Volume I is an ambitious and genre blending horror entry that combines slasher intensity, supernatural mythology, and psychological aftermath into a single expansive narrative framework.
Miles Watson sets a strong foundation with the a" Read more of this review » |
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| "Pappy" Boyington was a lot of things. Native American. Marine Corps pilot. Flying tiger. Fighter ace (five times over, plus). Prisoner of war. Medal of Honor winner. Maverick. Misfit. Raging alcoholic. People of my generation (Gen X), know him becau ...more | |
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"I've been told the TV show Baa, Baa Black Sheep was not very good. I don't know. When it was on, I was too busy enjoying it to notice.
I think that may be the case here - one thing I can say for sure is that the book was not ghost written. God bless h" Read more of this review » |
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| "Pappy" Boyington was a lot of things. Native American. Marine Corps pilot. Flying tiger. Fighter ace (five times over, plus). Prisoner of war. Medal of Honor winner. Maverick. Misfit. Raging alcoholic. People of my generation (Gen X), know him becau ...more | |
“It wasn’t fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn’t have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself.”
― Pleas and Thank Yous
― Pleas and Thank Yous
“It is no easy thing to be in your mid-twenties and realize that, holy shit, this is it, this is as good as it gets, and from here it's all downhill, the fun's over, the hijinks have jinked their last, nothing lies ahead but drudgery and toil and a sagging belly and death. It's harder yet when a stupid bitch, a numbfuck cunt, one of those horrible sweet-smelling OMG types who wouldn't talk to you in high school and sure as fuck won't talk to you now, takes position on your elbow with a cell phone jammed into her cheek, yammering away. Because who wants to listen to the stream of shit coming out of her mouth? Gossip about friends. Gossip about enemies. Gossip about celebrities. Gossip about gossip. Not a thought in her head. Not a fact. Nothing of interest. Nothing of worth. Just an avalanche of verbal rubbish. The Patriots took on the Redcoats, the Blue fought the Gray, the National Guard stormed the beaches of Normandy, so this submoronic cretin could stand here in her designer boots and talk about what happened at the club last night.”
― A Fever In The Blood
― A Fever In The Blood
“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.”
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“I thought fleetingly of Anne, how the faces changed but the act was always the same, the need was always the same, no one drew a line between the sex you bought and the love you made, and your body could not tell the difference.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“Kraut was a stand-up guy in the old tradition, in a strange way reminiscent of my father in his steadfast refusal to abandon a position once he had taken it. It was a quality I lacked, and so admired in others when they weren't using it to beat me to the canvas or break my heart.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life