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Shawn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shawn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Shawn C. Butler
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Run Lab Rat Run
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2021
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Beasts of Sonara
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Arachniss
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2022
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2 editions
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Ascendance
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China:
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A largely entertaining and informative account of the Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi who was the guiding force in China during the era in which it was most under direct pressure from the West to modernise. Part of Jung Chan's mission is to rehabilitate C" Read more of this review » |
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"I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Good detective crime story that leads to so much more. Det. Sara Sanchez is teamed up with Nathan Marks, a tech billionaire. Why is he on the case? When the Vice Pres" Read more of this review » |
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“The space between two strong women is the most dangerous place in the known universe,”
― Beasts of Sonara
― Beasts of Sonara
“His eyebrows lifted behind his glasses, so my reflection jumped. I hated talking to people when I couldn’t see their eyes. It was like trying to have a conversation during the COVID pandemic when everyone wore masks and you couldn’t read anyone’s emotions.”
― Beasts of Sonara
― Beasts of Sonara
“Giant gabbro stone balls called petrospheres are scattered all over the southwestern states of Costa Rica. Nobody knows who made them, but the consensus is that they were signs of tribal power, wealth and male fertility. It’s not hard to figure out. If Costa Rica was covered with almond-shaped pits filled with the remains of men who’d accidentally wandered into them because men love holes, you’d think a matriarchal society once ruled the region and men were dumbasses. You see giant spheres all over the Diquís Delta and you think, well, those are testicles. And men are dumbasses. It’s not rocket science.”
― Beasts of Sonara
― Beasts of Sonara
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