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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.
Gavin Roy’s Followers (295)
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Gavin Roy
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
April 20, 1988
Website
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December 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/gavinroy
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| I loved this book so much as a kid, and it landed even better now as a 38yo dad. Short chapters set in Ms. Jewls's classroom on the 30th and uppermost story of Wayside Elementary School. I read it aloud to my 7yo son at bedtime over the course of two ...more | |
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| This felt a lot like When Breath Becomes Air (i.e. notes from a surgeon about the process of dying), but more practical than spiritual. I now fully understand the conversations I want and need to have with my own parents before they enter the throes ...more | |
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| UPDATE: My second read-through of this slim slice of life comes a decade after the first, on the other side of a full career trajectory, all my money made, and two kids. It struck me hard back in 2016 as I embarked on my new vocational journey, and i ...more | |
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| A good enough thriller with more twists than expected. The One Year Later final chapter was very well done, not overly treacly nor predictable. | |
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Basic Illustrated Bike Touring and Bikepacking (Basic Illustrated Series)
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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