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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
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Richard Wells
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Somuchanger
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carryingagun and bible
Somanyself-styledJohn Brownsrighteousandragingoncurb sidesstreet cornersgrassy knolls
insideauditoriumsarenasliving rooms
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locking loading aiming firing
Whathave welostthatdrivesusso?
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Fearcontracts
Angermeetsanger
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| This is a charming, very of a type, British crime story, and the BBC ought to pick it up as a limited series. Post WWI, it's as much the telling of a milieu through its characters as it is a story of the people involved. The characters, all amusingly ...more | |
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This creative non-fiction is so far beyond memoir it deserves to be read for the risks Ms Harvey takes as well as for the incidents of the year. When I was a kid, 12 maybe, I sat up in my bedroom window looking out at the street trying to "have insomn ...more |
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| Short book, short review: Vikings, monks, brewers of mead, and entertaining mischief. I'd be very happy to follow these characters through many more pages. ...more | |
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| So much grisly fun that takes on Hollywood, and LA's super rich and famous in high octane prose. The cast is made up of a horrible group of people, some more horrible than others. Mayhem is the operating principal and even redemption is tawdry, but t ...more | |
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| A Macbeth story that rehabilitates the Lady, and the weird sisters, who are not sisters but are talented in the arcane, and handmaidens to the Lady. Most everyone who was nuts in Shakespeare's version, are sane in this one, and though massacres happe ...more | |
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
― The Jungle
― The Jungle
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
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