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Peter’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Peter Rock
Goodreads Author
Born
in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
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March 2007
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My Abandonment
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2009
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35 editions
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Klickitat
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2016
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10 editions
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The Night Swimmers
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2019
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8 editions
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The Shelter Cycle
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2013
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14 editions
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Passersthrough
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The Bewildered
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2005
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7 editions
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The Unsettling
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2006
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7 editions
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This Is the Place
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1997
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5 editions
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The Ambidextrist: A Novel
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2002
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6 editions
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Carnival Wolves
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1998
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More about Diane Williams
Friends! A brief respite from my half-assed self-promotion; when I was writing a review of VICKY SWANKY IS A BEAUTY by Diane Williams, I remembered this tiny essay I wrote about a sentence of hers that has long bedeviled me:
http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/9325/the... Read more of this blog post »
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| "Thinking perhaps she should camp beyond the village, avoid all these people who filled her head with their concerns, she bent her head to the cup—and, with her first sip, into her mouth swam a fish, and another finned dreamily in the shadowed overha ...more | |
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At least 25 years since I read this last. I think about the first line every day, since Kawabata's kanji calligraphy of it hangs in my kitchen. So much to learn, here. "It did not occur to Shimamura that it was improper to stare at the girl so long an ...more |
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| "In the way of animal people, she did not speak with her mouth, instead using a language that all living things could understand. It blossomed in Ellie's head like a dream, a series of thoughts she did not consciously control." ...more | |
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Favorite writer. I mean, I know it's a translation and all, but no one really opens a story or novel with the same atmosphere and control as Kawabata. "About the time the road began to wind and I realized that I was finally near Amagi Pass, a curtain ...more |
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So fine. I've been waiting for this collection for a while. Strong recommend: if you have eighteen minutes, listen to Erdrich read "The Hollow Children"; amazing: https://wnyc.org/story/louise-erdrich... ...more |
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"The reality is that I'm just someone's ex's ex who keeps wandering along the side of the road." "I had feelings about two tall, loud men joining me in my empty sauna of a room, but one has purple hair, so I relax. The man with purple hair walks into ...more |
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“But let me tell you now, plainly, what T didn't know at the time: that the undertaker never would share with her all he knew, that after a couple more phone calls and a few more promises, that path, too, turned into a dead end.” “All because you have ...more |
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Whoa. Such control and such control. "The locks of the doors unclicked as Mother relaxed, but nobody apart from Lena noticed. ...more |
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“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary. Don't forget this. Don't forget that thinking can get in the way. Forget the forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
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The Seasonal Read...:
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The Seasonal Read...:
Spring Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks
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2717 | 2519 | May 31, 2010 09:00PM | |
| Room 107, Period 6: Three Books for the Holidays | 30 | 46 | Nov 24, 2010 01:05PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Cathy of PA 50 Book Challenge | 72 | 234 | Dec 31, 2010 06:50AM | |
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Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts)
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2578 | 1119 | Feb 28, 2011 09:05PM | |
| The Life of a Boo...: Laura's 2012 TBR reading challenge list | 36 | 79 | May 14, 2012 06:04PM | |
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2808 | 784 | May 31, 2013 09:02PM | |
| Around the World ...: Oregon | 11 | 234 | Oct 24, 2015 02:23PM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: *** Susan C's 140 Book Challenge for 2016 *** | 90 | 187 | Dec 31, 2016 07:34PM |
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