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George’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at George’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
George Sandison’s Followers (6)
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George Sandison
Goodreads Author
Born
The United Kingdom
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Influences
Philip K. Dick, Daphne du Maurier, M. John Harrison, Iain Banks, Yuri
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Member Since
June 2016
Hooks, opening lines and blinkers
We all know, you’ve got to have a hook, right? It’s a vast yet overcrowded marketplace with a bajillion books for notably less than a bajillion readers.
People are brutal these days. My dad gives a book 50 pages to convince him to read on; some people decide based on Amazon’s Look Inside preview; many more are swayed by Goodreads scoring before they’ve read the book; occasional beautiful maniacs e
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"Read this book to discover what it would be like to be part of a travelling ballet company, performing for the Fae every night.
I enjoyed this story so much! It's told from a range of character viewpoints, including dancers, musicians and crew, to pat" Read more of this review » |
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"The Apple and the Pearl is a novel that feels like stepping into a dream—one that’s beautiful, unsettling, and impossible to shake off. Rym Kechacha conjures a world where art and danger are inseparable, following a ballet troupe of lost souls as the"
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"One of the most gorgeously written and mature works of literary fantasy I've read in years. The way the novel delivers the entire ballet company as the main character is fascinating, and they're all so human and familiar. This is a large cast, sure, "
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
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Readers' Favorite Horror
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Opening Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.”
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“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like thing to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time.”
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“Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles.”
― La transmigración de los cuerpos
― La transmigración de los cuerpos
“People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.”
― Lanark
― Lanark
“That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs.”
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