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Robin’s 2025 Year in Books
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Macular Degeneration and other stories
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Review of my book in Reader's Favorite. It got a 5.
Reviewed By Jon Michael Miller for Readers’ Favorite
Macular Degeneration and Other Stories by Robin Vigfusson is an engrossing collection of 24 stories, any of which can easily be read in one sitting. They are delightful and thought-provoking in their reality and unabashed directness. Although the title suggests the aging process, the subjects, settings, and ideas are widely varied, but each one d Read more of this blog post »
Macular Degeneration and Other Stories by Robin Vigfusson is an engrossing collection of 24 stories, any of which can easily be read in one sitting. They are delightful and thought-provoking in their reality and unabashed directness. Although the title suggests the aging process, the subjects, settings, and ideas are widely varied, but each one d Read more of this blog post »
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"This is a competent and comprehensive biography of Susan Sontag. The fact it won a Pulitzer is of course doing yeoman's work for sustaining awareness of Sontag. It does somehow feel like this biography is somehow, despite its length, light on Sontag'"
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"can't stand reading men write from a woman's POV and say things like "my breasts were hot and trembling in my hands" -- or something, not about to go and find exactly what it said
nope no they weren't ruined the whole book, couldn't really get past (NU" Read more of this review » |
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No me arrepiento de haberlo leído. No conocía el realismo mágico; gracias a este libro, a mi club de lectura y a mi amiga (?) Dahiana, tuve que leerlo. Me llevó a investigar sobre el realismo mágico, sus características y sus principales represe" Read more of this review » |
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"I know people love this book and I appreciate why: The prose is beautiful. It has influenced many other writers. It's a fantastic example of magical realism.
But unfortunately… it. did. nothing. for. me. I hated how it switched tenses and I didn't kn" Read more of this review » |
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| Very, very dreary. This writer was a progenitor of "Magic Realism", but if this depiction of the afterlife is true, I can see why people are trying to live as long as possible. A young man travels to his dead father's hometown to find out about the m ...more | |
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| Very, very dreary. This writer was a progenitor of "Magic Realism", but if this depiction of the afterlife is true, I can see why people are trying to live as long as possible. A young man travels to his dead father's hometown to find out about the m ...more | |
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| I'm finding that these stories are a slog. Well-written, but they evaporate as soon as you're finished with them and some of them are an outright chore to get through. ...more | |
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| I couldn't finish this because the author's tone and voice were so grating and unpleasant. I don't think reading it would have made any difference. In her heart of hearts, I feel she believes whatever career opportunities she's had (her books and app ...more | |
“To live is to be haunted.”
― Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
― Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
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“Our death is our wedding with eternity
What is the secret? "God is One."
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad.
Fix your eyes on God and do not talk about what is invisible,
So that he may place another look in your eyes.
It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such a Light?
Although all lights emanate from the Divine Light
Don't call all these lights "the Light of God";
It is the eternal light which is the Light of God,
The ephemeral light is an attribute of the body and the flesh.
...Oh God who gives the grace of vision!
The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.”
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What is the secret? "God is One."
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad.
Fix your eyes on God and do not talk about what is invisible,
So that he may place another look in your eyes.
It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such a Light?
Although all lights emanate from the Divine Light
Don't call all these lights "the Light of God";
It is the eternal light which is the Light of God,
The ephemeral light is an attribute of the body and the flesh.
...Oh God who gives the grace of vision!
The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.”
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