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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Besides the anxiety, dread, and frustration?
Triumph of Mediocrity
Is it just me, or do the Goodreads Choice Awards always seem like the dullest collection of middling pablum? I am sure there are some good ones in there, but they sure struggle to make any of them sound interesting. I guess James sounds interesting. I will probably read that eventually. And Ministry of Time. It's always nice when one of the Enger brothers puts out a book. But as a whole? Feels lik
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"I was trying to pinpoint what exactly made this collection so effective when I stumbled across a journal entry from when I’d read it the first time in which I referred to it as “a terrified, courageous set of poems.” I’d read the final poem, “Things "
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"I read this in one sitting while the plastic wrapping was still on the floor. I can't say I've ever read a more raw/real collection - or any other poem I would have sent to my carpenter brother-in-law. True to what I think his experience has been lik"
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"A small, stunning collection by an incredible poet whose work I will look for in the future.
Full of small wonders and details to make your spine itch, look out for the texture of "Dust" and the delicious ache of the titular "A Plumber's Guide to Lig" Read more of this review » |
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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
“When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
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