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Francis’s 2025 Year in Books
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Stars and Ravens: The Mysterious and Sometimes Confusing Adventures of Valerian Crow (Valerian Crow Series Book 1)
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Day 11 of #spfmchallenge, 'Scenic Saturday - Journeys'
For Saturday's #spfmchallenge, I offer two quotes from "Stars and Ravens":
“He followed the path he had trampled on his way here, made his way through a dusky green, through a close stillness. Wind came up, rustling the leaves of trees and bushes, replacing that stillness with a fevered whisper. Twice he tripped over boulders that glinted white under a netting of lichen and moss.
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“He followed the path he had trampled on his way here, made his way through a dusky green, through a close stillness. Wind came up, rustling the leaves of trees and bushes, replacing that stillness with a fevered whisper. Twice he tripped over boulders that glinted white under a netting of lichen and moss.
By the time Valeri Read more of this blog post »
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Eine Freundin hat mir das Buch vor vielen Jahren geschenkt mit der Widmung: "Drei Freundinnen im mittleren Alter! So weit sind wir noch nicht, auch wenn mal wieder eine Reise zu dritt nett wäre. Nur bitte kein solches Ende!" Das Buch beschreibt eine g ...more |
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Liked but not loved it. This is a novella length-fairy tale, not a novel. Novik excels at quick world-building and clever plans. Unfortunately, the characters never came alive for me; they felt like sketches of characters, not like three-dimensional p ...more |
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Dieses Buch hatte ich zuletzt vor vielen Jahren gelesen; in Erinnerung geblieben war mir insbesondere der Charakter von Claudia. Beim Wiederlesen war ich überrascht davon, wie gut sich der Erzählstil gehalten hat: Die Beschreibungen sind kraftvoll un ...more |
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I read this book based on a recommendation. As strongly advised, I went into it completely blind, and did not even check out the book blurb. "So the middle of my story comes in the winter of 1996. By then, we’d long since dwindled to the family that ...more |
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Liked but not loved it. This is a novella length-fairy tale, not a novel. Novik excels at quick world-building and clever plans. Unfortunately, the characters never came alive for me; they felt like sketches of characters, not like three-dimensional p ...more |
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“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“If there was an Olympic sport for worrying, Mom would win the gold and then give it to the silver medalist because she was afraid that they might feel bad for losing.”
― A House with Good Bones
― A House with Good Bones
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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