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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sarah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Why I Read This: After enjoying Sale’s previous epic poem, Virtue’s End, I was excited to read his latest release. My Impression: Ourobomundus is another incredible journey into the imagination of Joseph Sale. This story takes place on a world that is l ...more |
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"I’ve read The Neverending Story before; however, I honestly remembered very little outside of the 80s movie, which is really only the first half of the story. But it’s a classic for a reason. Originally written in German, the English translation is r"
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Why I Read This: I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in the series, Titus Groan, and was looking forward to re-entering this dark and quirky world. My Impression: I love it when you get the sense that an author has achieved a level of mastery where they ...more |
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Why I Read This: I enjoyed The Way of Edan and had heard several reviewers say that the series only gets better as it goes along. My Impression: The Prophet of Edan maintains consistency with the first book in the series but represents a major tonal shi ...more |
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“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”
― The Other Wind
― The Other Wind
“I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit of ten dry years; then and always, however she spoke to me, in half sentences, single words, stock phrases of contemporary jargon, in scarcely perceptible movements of eyes or lips or hands, however inexpressible her thought, however quick and far it had glanced from the matter in hand, however deep it had plunged, as it often did, straight from the surface to the depths, I knew; even that day when I still stood on the extreme verge of love, I knew what she meant.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“There are encounters that change nothing. Urth turns her aged face to the sun and he beams upon her snows; they scintillate and coruscate until each little point of ice hanging from the swelling sides of the towers seems the Claw of the Conciliator, the most precious of gems. Then everyone except the wisest believes that the snow must melt and give way to a protracted summer beyond summer.”
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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My reviews tell you why I read the book and the impression it left on me. I include a section called 'Craft Related Notes' to make sure I am paying attention to the techniques the writer used. After all, every book is a teacher.
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