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Neal’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Neal’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Neal Holtschulte
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December 2017
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Crew of Exiles
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Tall Boy Sun
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This is grotesque satire that reminded me immediately of Beetlejuice, especially the scenes of the afterlife beauracracy. Corpses, but make it corporate. Upper management at a record company, but actually spill that toxicity into the physical world. C ...more |
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This one kept surprising me with its quirks and twists. It's creepy, but more importantly, it's fascinating. There's just the right amount of worldbuilding with plenty left to the imagination. I read it out loud, which I do think is to its benefit and ...more |
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This prolific author writes fast, fun, military scifi in an ever expanding universe. Companion to Darkness takes place in a big broad universe, but it certainly stands alone well. It opens like your typical military sci-fi with a massive battle, but m ...more |
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This is a light, playful, fantasy, coming of age story about young Matradin "Matty" the dwarf. It intentionally leans on DnD tropes and is wholesome to the core. More available here (along with reviews of other local authors) https://www.youtube.com/w ...more |
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I love to see a familiar character from an outsider's perspective. In Undeniable, we get to see Bridget from her sister's perspective and it reframes Bridget's obsessiveness in interesting and sometimes unflattering ways. I missed the humor James brou ...more |
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| Outstandingly inventive worldbuilding. It's a superhero story at heart. Action packed with memorable characters. The exposition sometimes runs on too long, but otherwise a fun and satisfying read. ...more | |
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| This was a fascinating read, but not a straightforward one. The novel explores the interplay of memory, reality, and imagination, and does so using stories within stories, with some stories bleeding beyond their boundaries. It's an interesting read a ...more | |
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| I don't usually read middle grade, but Karen and I have recently become author buddies, so of course I had to read her book. I expected cute talking animals and a fast-paced plot set in Victorian London, and there's plenty of that. What I did not exp ...more | |
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| I like Orson Scott Card's writing. My favorite books of his are, in order: Ender's Game, A War of Gifts, and Ender's Shadow. "Empire" does not belong on this list. It is a merely adequate novel. It reads like an emulation of an action thriller, the s ...more | |
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”
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“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”
― The Thousandfold Thought
― The Thousandfold Thought
“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?”
― The Darkness That Comes Before
― The Darkness That Comes Before
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