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Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Brian Jay Jones
Goodreads Author
Born
Kansas City, KS, The United States
Website
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Robert Caro, Alan Moore, David Halberstam, Harvey Kurtzman, David McCu
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Member Since
July 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/brianjayjones
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Jim Henson: The Biography
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2013
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27 editions
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George Lucas: A Life
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2016
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3 editions
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
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2019
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7 editions
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Washington Irving: An American Original
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2007
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7 editions
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The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building
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Talking the Capitol, Dr. Seuss, and the Re-animator
My thanks to everyone who’s taken a moment to tell me how much they’re enjoying–and have been surprised by–The Capitol. It’s a bit of a different kind of book for me–the first question I’ve been getting during interviews is usually “why this particular subject?”–but one that I’m really proud of.
And speaking of interviews, I thought I’d post a few of them here, if you’d like to hear me discuss
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“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.' - Jim”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
― Jim Henson: The Biography
“When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little bit better for my being here."
And he did.”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
And he did.”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
“When Jim left the planet so suddenly, all of us who loved him, worked with him, were inspired by him, gathered in New York City. We were like dandelion seeds clinging to the stem and to each other. And on May 16th, [the day Jim died] the wind began to blow. There’s no stem any more. We’re all floating on the breeze. And it’s scary and exhilarating, and there’s nothing we can do about it. But gradually, we’ll all drift to the ground and plant ourselves. And no matter what we grow into, it’ll be influenced by Jim. We’re Jim’s seeds. And it’s not only those of us who knew him. Everyone who was touched by his work is a Jim-seed.”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
― Jim Henson: The Biography
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Fall Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
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| The Seasonal Read...: 30.6 - Sandy/Kristi's task: Oh, the Places You'll Go | 91 | 141 | Apr 29, 2014 06:18PM | |
| Fiction Fanatics: July's Genre - Goodreads Choice Award winners | 13 | 74 | May 27, 2014 02:59AM | |
| You'll love this ...: Marnie's Chain of Chunksters 2014 | 80 | 88 | Jul 23, 2014 11:46AM | |
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.”
― Tales of a Traveller
― Tales of a Traveller
“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)”
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(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)”
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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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