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Mark’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark L. Mitchell
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Member Since
September 2008
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23 Autopsies: A Companion for the Study of Pathology
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Nineteen Autopsies. A Companion for the Study of Pathology
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"Reid’s novel is one that grows on you, or I should say it grew on me. It concerns a love affair between two women who happen to be astronauts in the early 80’s during the era of the space shuttle. The personal drama of these two as well as their fell"
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| This is cute, but you shouldn't buy it. The concept (or lack of one) is well known, but it isn't really explained here. It's just a collection of funny examples of computer-found data from two things that have nothing to do with each other, but are h ...more | |
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| A terrifying and consuming story. The author sometimes seems to think that there is a moral or important lesson to learn here, but I'm not sure about it. What could the allies do? The author shows evidence that some of the decision makers were antise ...more | |
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| A terrifying and consuming story. The author sometimes seems to think that there is a moral or important lesson to learn here, but I'm not sure about it. What could the allies do? The author shows evidence that some of the decision makers were antise ...more | |
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| A fine biography of a great man. I note that there are about 18 other biographies of Admiral Nimitz on Amazon that I haven't read, so I cannot compare them. This book concentrates on Nimitz's leadership skills, and WWII sea battles are discussed in a ...more | |
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| Meh. Dated (Martini is one of the most common words in the text). Dwarfed by The Day of the Locust. It's hard to feel sorry for people with these particular problems in a short novel, as opposed to real life. And in real life, you could always slap t ...more | |
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Christopher's review
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On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain:
"Overall, this was a well-written biography of Chamberlain, focusing perhaps less on his Civil War years and more on his early life and post war career (after the war he was a multiple term governor of Maine and the president of Bowdoin College, where"
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| A famous account of a terrible story that was smuggled out of the Soviet Union by the author on film when he defected to London in 1969. The book was republished with the parts censored by the Soviets shown in boldface. The author was living in Kyiv ...more | |
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Christopher's review
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The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee’s Lost Orders:
"I certainly do not revere George McClellan, but "The Tale Untwisted" should change the way that McClellan's actions should be viewed during the South Mountain/Antietam campaign after the discovery of RE Lee's famous "lost orders". It proves that McCl"
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| This very detailed and expansive history centers on the Combahee River Raid of June 1863 in South Carolina, but it also covers the life of Harriet Tubman before, during, and after the raid, and the First and Second battles of Charleston Harbor. Even ...more | |
“We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench...”
― Stories and Texts for Nothing
― Stories and Texts for Nothing
“I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.”
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“Knowledge, as opposed to fantasies of wish fulfilment, is difficult to come by.”
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“I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.”
― The Time It Never Rained
― The Time It Never Rained
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
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