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Gavin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gavin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gavin Roy
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in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
April 20, 1988
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December 2010
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2026: "Spill the tea!" 1606: "Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears!" After reading Stacy Schiff's 2010 biography of Cleopatra I now see clearly how Shakespeare succeeded in permanently tainting the reputation of the last Egyptian queen (70-30 BC) ...more |
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| A collection of essays that was too brief! It was fascinating to learn about the different ways in which our U.S. government workers attempt to serve We The People, from a coal mines safety guy to a badass IRS agent to military cemetery administratio ...more | |
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“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”
― The Immense Journey
― The Immense Journey
“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“We teach best what we most need to learn.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains, and belatedly she understood that this was how a loved one disappeared. Despite the shock wave of walking into an empty flat, the absence isn’t immediate, more a fade from the present tense you shared, a melting into the mast, not an erasure but a conversion in form, from presence to memory, from solid to liquid, and the person you once touched runs over your skin, now in sheets down your back, and you may bathe, may sink, may drown in the memory, but your fingers cannot hold it.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
