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Peter’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Peter Rock’s Followers (338)
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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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5 editions
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Klickitat
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2016
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9 editions
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The Night Swimmers
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2019
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13 editions
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The Shelter Cycle
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2013
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13 editions
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Passersthrough
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The Bewildered
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2005
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6 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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4 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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| "How absurd must it feel to be incarcerated, to live an existence constrained by acts committed by another person entirely?" ...more | |
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| Grimur took out his short sword and held it in front of him as he ducked under the eaves. Tentatively, he entered the room--and then his head exploded. | |
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| The front door closed quietly enough. I took off my shoes and tiptoed over the floors in my stocking feet, making my way to my bedroom without waking even the cat. I lit the candle on a nightstand by the window and watched the flame flicker to life. ...more | |
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Wow this is a baggy monster. So much. I don't think I've read any Dickens since high school? It took a long time and I'm still glad I did it. “I do not recall them to make others unhappy, or because I am now the least unhappy in remembering them. It m ...more |
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| Back when she had a younger, firmer body, she hadn't known just how much more slowly sensations left the body as it got older. She hadn't known that she could carry all the tactile memories of a night with him all throughout the next day. Yet she did ...more | |
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The next night, the burnt-up house gets ransacked. I guess some folks scour the news feeds for fires, just to make sure other folks lose everything. |
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So much! Immersed. "At some point in every voyage, the familiar water around you became unfamiliar. But only by sailing onward did the unknown seas join the ranks of the known." "'Aho said, 'That's the danger in learning an enemy's language. If we come ...more |
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| Harrowing, completely without flinch, this may be the most uncomfortably human book I’ve ever read. And so beautifully written: "What did it feel like, the coming back? It felt like rutting in the leaves for months, mouth to the ground, eyes in the d ...more | |
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Crackling. Rending and hilarious, all energy. "I had tricked myself into thinking I'd grieved deeply and therefore understood life deeply, when really what I had done was buy into a pretty story of the everlasting soul, of believing he remained all ar ...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
Topics Mentioning This Author
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The Seasonal Read...:
5.3 (S.P.R.I.N.G)
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29 | 206 | Feb 25, 2010 10:42AM | |
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The Seasonal Read...:
Spring Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks
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2717 | 2509 | 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 | 233 | Dec 31, 2010 06:50AM | |
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The Seasonal Read...:
Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts)
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2578 | 1106 | 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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Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!
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2808 | 780 | May 31, 2013 09:02PM | |
| Around the World ...: Oregon | 11 | 233 | Oct 24, 2015 02:23PM | |
| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: *** Susan C's 140 Book Challenge for 2016 *** | 90 | 187 | Dec 31, 2016 07:34PM |
