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Phil’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Phil’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Phil McGrail’s Followers (6)
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Phil McGrail
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
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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 OK. Maybe if I was really into the video game, I would appreciate it more. It had some good things going for it, but it also had some things I didn't care for. Good world-building. Interesting people and places, but the Hawaiian-like la ...more |
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| The 8 year time shift was too much for me. I can understand how the story needed some time to pass in order to set up a new society, but the change in the characters over that same time made things feel disjointed. I was so confused that I actually p ...more | |
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| I stopped about 50% of the way through the book. I was already debating putting it down before then, since basically nothing had happened to that point. The whole book was about a bunch of unlikeable characters who existed just to have sex and take h ...more | |
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| I stopped about 50% of the way through the book. I was already debating putting it down before then, since basically nothing had happened to that point. The whole book was about a bunch of unlikeable characters who existed just to have sex and take h ...more | |
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This is like the fast food of the literary world. It was fun and enjoyable, but not a lot of substance. And you know what, I'm ok with that. This is the first lit-RPG that I've read. I wasn't sure what to expect at first, but once I got over the heav ...more |
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| This book reminded me of the Y/A books by Carlos Ruis Zafon. The setting has a folk horror feel to it, and the book is all about heart. There were times when this book was a little slow, but the relationships between the characters were real. The dif ...more | |
“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
