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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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Richard Roberts
Goodreads Author
Born
in Philadelphia, The United States
July 13
Website
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Blake Crouch, Ernest Cline, Gillian Flynn
Member Since
March 2016
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/richardhroberts
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Tuning In
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The Sea of Suns (Tuning In, #2)
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The Sea of Suns: Book Two in the Tuning In Series
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Inspiration for Spiraling Suns of Consciousness
My inspiration for the spiraling orbs Jon sees in the field of consciousness came from John Edmark's "Blooms" -- 3D sculptures that animate when spun under the correct shutter speed.In Edmark's words, "The bloom’s animation effect is achieved by progressive rotations of the golden ratio, phi (ϕ), the same ratio that nature employs to generate the spiral patterns we see in pinecones and sunflowers.
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| Beautiful descriptions of the Earth from space and life on a on the ISS but no story. This is not what I read a novel for. Call me old-fashioned, but I look to identify with a protagonist with a goal and how they overcome challenges to achieve that g ...more | |
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| Maybe I’m too simplistic, but to me, a “story” is about a protagonist(s) with a goal and the challenges that get in their way of achieving that goal. This book is brilliantly written at the chapter level but as a novel it left me wondering what the p ...more | |
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Richard Roberts
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Katie Scarlett's review
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow:
"This book is so utterly pretentiousness and trying so hard to be woke that I should have given up on it instead of seeing it to the end. I would have if the beginning hadn’t been so beautifully done. There’s a line in the book about a video game sequ"
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| I fully appreciate the messages of this book but the gratuitous, repetitive, graphic accounts of war horrors interspersed with “romance novel” tragedies turned me off. | |
“Jon reeled, as Lex’s dark psyche began infecting him like an emotional contagion. As usual, the physical symptoms came first: his heart rate ramped up and caffeine jitters buzzed down to his fingertips. He knew how this dinner would go, and after traveling for twenty-six hours, he simply didn’t have it in him. Thankfully, he’d had a lifetime of practice bowing out of social situations.”
― Tuning In
― Tuning In
“She rolled onto her side, crumpling more MRI print outs, and stared at the picture on her bedside table. It was a photo of Jady at five years old. She was sleeping peacefully, hair matted on her forehead and clutching her pink blanket, the tag up to her nose. Ella remembered those precious minutes, before she’d sneak out for the early train, when she’d spoon her warm little girl, smell her hair and, if she closed her eyes, feel as if they were one, safe from the world. It had been on a morning like that when she’d been convinced that she stopped Jady’s hiccups by sending comforting thoughts.”
― Tuning In
― Tuning In
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“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter… or at least, most minds are…”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”
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“She rolled onto her side, crumpling more MRI print outs, and stared at the picture on her bedside table. It was a photo of Jady at five years old. She was sleeping peacefully, hair matted on her forehead and clutching her pink blanket, the tag up to her nose. Ella remembered those precious minutes, before she’d sneak out for the early train, when she’d spoon her warm little girl, smell her hair and, if she closed her eyes, feel as if they were one, safe from the world. It had been on a morning like that when she’d been convinced that she stopped Jady’s hiccups by sending comforting thoughts.”
― Tuning In
― Tuning In
“Jon reeled, as Lex’s dark psyche began infecting him like an emotional contagion. As usual, the physical symptoms came first: his heart rate ramped up and caffeine jitters buzzed down to his fingertips. He knew how this dinner would go, and after traveling for twenty-six hours, he simply didn’t have it in him. Thankfully, he’d had a lifetime of practice bowing out of social situations.”
― Tuning In
― Tuning In
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