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Roxanna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Roxanna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Roxanna López
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Judith Merkle-Riley, Esmeralda Santiago, Isabel Allende, Haruki Muraka
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Lizard-Monkeys and Other Stories
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Sway my whole being like a scattering of feathers on a cosmic score
Sway my whole being like a scattering of feathers on a cosmic score 
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In this post: I wax poetically about the way I listen to music and why the act of listening to music is both sublime and draining for me. Hint: it sways my whole being like a scattering of feathers.
Beat, step, beat, sway, step. Th
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Roxanna’s Recent Updates
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Roxanna López
is on page 33 of 300 of Introduction to Systems Theory
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Roxanna López
is on page 88 of 144 of Painting Portraits in Acrylic
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"Three excellent, atmospheric and moving short stories about people doing it tough, surviving and needing some help. I got drawn in to all three and found it hard to put down till I’d finished each one.
Lovely writing." |
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Roxanna López
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Natasha's review
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1):
"I never reviewed this. So this is me @ this fucking book
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Roxanna López
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hillary's review
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1):
"DNF page 72 | 01/2018
Update: I just watched the movie and I don’t regret dnfing this book even a bit. I don’t get the hype. I think the The Shining scene was really clever but the rest was boring af. I’ve had this book on my bedside table for weeks, an" Read more of this review » |
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Enjoyment 3.5 Technique 4 Social Relevance 5 4.2 star overall. It is, after all, a novel by a master story teller with an incomparable style. However, it left me feeling sad, discouraged, and that is where the stars are lost for me. These days, there is ...more |
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“I don't know if I thought of anything in particular, but I remember distinctly a creamy, yellow sun that was warm on my neck, a breeze that lifted the smell of laundry detergent from the washer's bowl and spread it around me like a ribbon of scent.”
― Lizard-Monkeys and Other Stories
― Lizard-Monkeys and Other Stories
“Incluso en esos días cuando el mundo la drenaba de toda su fe, François era para ella como la tibieza del pan recién horneado en la mañana y como el crujido del pasto al viento en un jardín lleno de sol.
Del cuento 'Ulla y Salman', de la versión es español de mi libro, 'Monos o Lagartijos' a estrenarse en Noviembre de 2019.”
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Del cuento 'Ulla y Salman', de la versión es español de mi libro, 'Monos o Lagartijos' a estrenarse en Noviembre de 2019.”
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“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about opinion. It is about evidence.”
― Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
― Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
“Incluso en esos días cuando el mundo la drenaba de toda su fe, François era para ella como la tibieza del pan recién horneado en la mañana y como el crujido del pasto al viento en un jardín lleno de sol.
Del cuento 'Ulla y Salman', de la versión es español de mi libro, 'Monos o Lagartijos' a estrenarse en Noviembre de 2019.”
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Del cuento 'Ulla y Salman', de la versión es español de mi libro, 'Monos o Lagartijos' a estrenarse en Noviembre de 2019.”
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“The fact is that in two unhappy years, working in isolation except for Gosling, in a field new to her, she had come within two steps of answering the most exciting question in post-war science. What is more, she, unknowingly, had provided all the essential data for those who took the two brilliant leaps of intuition — to anti-parallel chains and base pairs — that cracked the problem.”
― Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
― Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
“We can think of the difference between math and science in terms of possible worlds. Math is concerned with truths that would hold in any possible world: given these axioms, these theorems will follow. Science is all about discovering the actual world in which we live.”
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
“I don't know if I thought of anything in particular, but I remember distinctly a creamy, yellow sun that was warm on my neck, a breeze that lifted the smell of laundry detergent from the washer's bowl and spread it around me like a ribbon of scent.”
― Lizard-Monkeys and Other Stories
― Lizard-Monkeys and Other Stories
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Martin wrote: "Hi Roxanna,Thank you for your Goodreads friend invitation.
Cheers,
Martin"
You are very welcomed, Martin. Thanks for accepting the invitation.
Hi Roxanna,Thank you for your Goodreads friend invitation.
Cheers,
Martin
William wrote: "Thank you for the friendship! I’ve added your book. Good luck!"Thank you for accepting the invitation and for the good wishes. Have a lovely day!
Roxanna
Thank you for the friendship! I’ve added your book. Good luck!
