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Phil McGrail
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July 2008
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Daughter of Statues
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2008
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This book was supposed to be about a doctor from the 1500s named Paracelsus. Instead, it was about everything BUT Paracelsus. Let me explain... At the start of the book, Paracelsus was discussed at a cursory level. The author would describe a time and ...more |
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| As a general rule, I stay away from war-related histories. But Erik Larson has done a good job, in a couple different books, of revealing the micro-stories behind the big military conflicts. The Splendid and the Vile was another of Larson's books tha ...more | |
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It was a little frustrating as it wasn't exactly clear what the big reveal would be at the end about what the main character really was. I ended up reading it and thinking, "OK, already, just tell me. Explain it!" But in the end, the everything was w ...more |
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It was a little frustrating as it wasn't exactly clear what the big reveal would be at the end about what the main character really was. I ended up reading it and thinking, "OK, already, just tell me. Explain it!" But in the end, the everything was w ...more |
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Another solid entry. These books need some serious copy editing though. I mean, I've self-published some books, and it isn't easy to catch everything, but for something this big, it needs a real editor. Otherwise, the wacky adventures of Carl and Pri ...more |
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You