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Rue’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rue’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Rue Matthiessen’s Followers (9)
974 books
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5,739 books
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Rue Matthiessen
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March 2014
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Buttonwood Cottage
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Castles & Ruins: Unraveling Family Mysteries & Literary Legacy in the Irish Countryside
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Woman with Eyes Closed
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Rue’s Recent Updates
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Hi Juliano, thanks so much for the comments. Lovely to hear.
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| I am surprised to find this long-out-of-print book on Good Reads. It is by my mother Deborah Love. My memoir, Castles & Ruins, uses many excerpts from Annaghkeen throughout its pages. Just now I am recording my book in audio form. Thrillingly, I have ...more | |
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Rue Matthiessen
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4 other people
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CQM's review
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Eustace and Hilda (Eustace and Hilda, #1-3):
"This is a review for the final part of the trilogy also titled Eustace and Hilda. I've reviewed the first two parts elsewhere.
This final part brings everything back to the beginning, indeed after the majority of the book takes place in Venice with se" Read more of this review » |
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Rue Matthiessen
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Elizabeth's review
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True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen:
"A gorgeous biography of a brilliant writer and complicated man who devoted his life to the existential quest. I loved how many places this book went -- from the search for Bigfoot to the Everglades to the CIA, from Leonard Peltier to the Himalayas an"
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| I will just repeat something I wrote to a friend about my father, and this book, (which is, to me, right up there with the new biography of Guagin.) True Nature is very good, and also, honest about a gifted, charismatic and extremely difficult person ...more | |
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Rue Matthiessen
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“You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.”
― Listen, Little Man!
― Listen, Little Man!
