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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Mother Tongue is a fascinating collection of details you haven’t dreamed of about the English language. It’s easy enough to skim the parts that you don’t need to read in detail. If you think that English stands alone as our primary means of commun ...more |
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First, let’s get this straight: it’s worth your time to read this little book. Maybe you think you know all you want to know about the Declaration of Independence, but I think you’ll learn at least a couple things of interest as you read The Greatest ...more |
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It is possible that a talented cast could breathe some life into Pinter’s words on stage. It is possible that stage design could invest some reality into Pinter’s words. Maybe you have to be in a narrow frame of mind to experience some drama and some h ...more |
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Haidt’s book is subtitled How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. If you think he’s talking about the internet, and cell phones, and computers, and television, and social media, you’re right on the money. “Screen ...more |
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This America is a well-documented account of the many nationalist, nativist, racist, and bigoted actions—by governments and individuals—in the history of the United States, to the detriment of immigrants, Indians, blacks, and others. Lepore offers a s ...more |
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Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam war veteran. If you served in the Vietnam war, you have a perspective for reading The Things They Carried. If you didn’t go to Vietnam, you have a different perspective. If you weren’t born until after the war ended, you have a ...more |
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Maggie Smith knows this: “You could make this place beautiful.” She has beautiful words, beautiful phrases, even beautiful titles in her book of poems: Good Bones. She doesn’t’ make best use or best order of her words and phrases. A reader is undeniabl ...more |
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“...(Carol’s) slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.” As you read the ending of The Price of Salt, your own slow smile grows. It’s a lov ...more |
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Kipling created continuing dramatic tension in the framework of rectitude in The Jungle Book, Vol. 1. Two of my favorite stories are “Kaa’s Hunting” and “Toomai of the Elephants.” The characters are well wrought, they live the stories, the drama is pe ...more |
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“And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.”
― The Canterbury Tales
― The Canterbury Tales
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
The History Book Club
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
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The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
Goodreads Authors/Readers
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This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit ...more
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Majenta wrote: "Hello, Richard! Thanks for contacting me! I hope you're well and that 2018 is going well so far. Congratulations on your book, and I hope you're enjoying working on the next one! Have a great new w..."thanks, Majenta, always interesting to talk about books with a fellow librophile
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Hello, Richard! Thanks for contacting me! I hope you're well and that 2018 is going well so far. Congratulations on your book, and I hope you're enjoying working on the next one! Have a great new week ahead. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Thanks for getting in touch Richard. You write well-articulated reviews. Looking forward to reading more of them(books included).
