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Adam Bolts

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in Iowa City, The United States
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I love to read and write and I am lucky enough to make a living teaching both. I also write, record, and perform music in a few different projects over the years. Can't do audiobooks. Enjoy a good paperback/hardcover.

I do not participate in any other forms of social media. Goodreads is good enough for me.

I also buy and sell classic soul, funk, and early rock 'n' roll vinyl 45s on Discogs (if you're into that sort of thing):

https://www.discogs.com/user/boltsa33

Much love from Iowa to my Goodreads reading family!
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Adam and 26 other people liked Diane's review of Wise Blood:
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
"What could Flannery see that we couldn’t?

The premise alone feels almost cartoonish: a church founded on the rejection of Christ, prophets who seem to have wandered out of a grotesque comic strip, faith performed through spectacle, costume, and extrem" Read more of this review »
The Cars by Bill Janovitz
"Another dinosaur lent me this book to read. I was exactly the right age to be exposed to The Cars. The first time I'd ever heard of them was when some friends of mine had tickets to see Foreigner at the Lakeland Civic Center in Florida. We were in 10" Read more of this review »
Adam and 77 other people liked Diane's review of The Brothers Karamazov:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Brothers Karamazov isn’t a novel you read — it’s one you sit through, as if called to testify.

There are moments that simply don’t repeat themselves. The first time Ivan tells The Grand Inquisitor, something quietly irreversible happens. Not compr" Read more of this review »
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Adam is on page 115 of 224 of Empire of Death: Where have you been all my life, you book of bones? I'm absolutely in love.
Empire of Death by Paul Koudounaris
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The Spiritual Exercises by Ignatius of Loyola
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Lord of Mysteries, Vol. 1 by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving
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The "world" was interesting (for a minute here and there), but either I am not the target audience for this book, the translation got severely butchered, or the writing is objectively poor. Might be a combination of all three. ...more
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Charles Fort
“I think we're all bugs and mice, and are only different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.”
Charles Fort, The Fortean Collection: The Book of The Damned, New Lands, LO!, Wild Talents, The Outcast Manufacturers

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Ambrose Bierce
“The infallible teacher is still in the forest primeval, throwing seeds to the white blackbirds”
Ambrose Bierce

Louis MacNeice
“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.”
Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats

Percy Bysshe Shelley
“But my soul,
From sight and sense of the polluting woe
Of tyranny, had long learned to prefer
Hell's freedom to the servitude of heaven.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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