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Helen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Helen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Helen Picca
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Books to the Rescue
With Stay-at-Home orders in place in many states, and with events cancelled, shops/salons/cafes closed, there is really no place to go and nothing to "do." Except read. Once, many people said they had no time to read, but now, we have lots of time. And books will save us--saving me--from the isolation and boredom. I can travel to faraway lands, meet amazing people, go back in time, and have unboun
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Yes it’s the underground tunnels, an integral part of both narratives, but also the asylums. Both stories involve mental health and the barbaric ways it is treated centuries apart.
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"If we could cut the stars in half I would’ve put down 4 1/2 stars because for the most part I loved this book. The writing is beautiful-very evocative-and the story details are quite compelling. There are just a couple of turns the novel took I’m not"
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"Did you ever read a book that you couldn’t wait to get back to? This is THAT book.
Ohhh...I just loved Mrs. Endicott and this lovely read. Ellie Endicott was married for thirty years and waited on her husband hand and foot. He came home one day and said" Read more of this review » |
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“I remembered my own 'past' life, buying into the whole success myth, running on that hamster wheel and going nowhere, except from pleasure to pleasure, to new things, new titles, more accomplishments, wrapped up in my egocentric world of superficiality.”
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights to be won. When the anti-war public sentiment was strong, as it was during the Vietnam war, our brave soldiers came home to expressions of disdain and revulsion instead of the respect and honor they deserved. But perhaps the ultimate betrayal for veterans, who willingly risked their lives when their government asked, was making them fight to prove their sicknesses and disabilities were caused by the war in order to receive the free medical treatment they needed, or to be compensated. These were the worst indignities of war.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights to be won. When the anti-war public sentiment was strong, as it was during the Vietnam war, our brave soldiers came home to expressions of disdain and revulsion instead of the respect and honor they deserved. But perhaps the ultimate betrayal for veterans, who willingly risked their lives when their government asked, was making them fight to prove their sicknesses and disabilities were caused by the war in order to receive the free medical treatment they needed, or to be compensated. These were the worst indignities of war.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it”
― The Invisible Bridge
― The Invisible Bridge
“I remembered my own 'past' life, buying into the whole success myth, running on that hamster wheel and going nowhere, except from pleasure to pleasure, to new things, new titles, more accomplishments, wrapped up in my egocentric world of superficiality.”
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
“I’ve been around men all my life. I don’t see how you all live with those things. They take more time and energy than a woman puts into her hair.”
― Maud's Line
― Maud's Line
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