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Joshua’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joshua’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Review #4 of 2026: Submission (revisited) by Michel Houellebecq
I’ve already reviewed this book once, back in 2024, but I found myself drawn back to Houellebecq, and Submission in particular earlier this year. Maybe it’s because he’s the equivalent of romantasy for dudes1, and I remain unfortunately single at the time of writing this article. Maybe spring in Baltimore was too nice and I needed a dose of depressing nihilism. Or maybe I just needed to reread
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Joshua said:
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Buonissimo. Anche più difficile scriber italiano (no sapevo tanto). Ma potevo lo leggere!
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"Blood Meridian has been on my to read list for well over a decade because, quite honestly, I sensed it was not my cup of tea.
I’m not sure why exactly… maybe it’s that I’ve suffered my way through Faulkner and Hemingway already and had this gut feeli" Read more of this review » |
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I'll have to read this! I really enjoyed Wonder Boys
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"Witty, fast-paced and fun enough to tear through and enjoy immensely. Thought the ending was bittersweet but still wonderful, will definitely reread this for enjoyment in the future"
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This was very very nearly a DNF, but I felt obligated to continue for philosophy book club and because this is my friend Emory's favorite book. What held this back for me, as what holds me back from all of McCarthy's novels is the writing style. The ...more |
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| Fourth read: Read this again in preparation for HoTD season 4. Really don't know how they're going to pull off the Nettles stuff with Rhaena in the show, and the lack of Aegon III/Viserys II as characters is also going to mess up any narrative contin ...more | |
"Kim Stanley Robinson doesn’t understand central bank balance sheets. Like, not missing some nuances but complete and total ignorance of them. Normally I would not bring up an issue like this about a novelist, I suspect most of the novelists I read do"
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“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
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“Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.”
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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