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Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Wright Engineers: Inventing the Airplane
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2022
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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| In A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space, author Peter Selgin trots out every coming-of-age trope know to English majors. But he makes it work in a pretty good tale about life and regrets, both commissions & omissions, of which no one escapes. | |
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| Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler’s Lightning War: France 1940 by Lloyd Clark is an extraordinary work of scholarship. Lloyd masses an enormous amount of detail in a well written account accompanied by thoughtful analysis of all parties involved ...more | |
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| Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales is a charming tale but it's not really a children's read-aloud story book. That said, it is a wonderful book for adults where you can especially relish Thomas' poetic use of language: "In goes my hand into t ...more | |
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| George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls is a struggling but persistent attempt to place George Orwell’s written works and personal philosophy into the context of the English intellectual milieu of the mid-20th century. Colls mounts an obsessive ...more | |
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| Alas, I can't give this important and incisive account of NASA's deep space network more than two stars. It is regrettable because the author, Douglas Mudgway was a principle engineer deeply involved with the network and brings wonderful insight into ...more | |
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| The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 – 2017 by Rashid Khalidi is an utterly incisive account and well deserves its reputation. But sadly, reading this in late 2025, Khalidi’s slight note of optimi ...more | |
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Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
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| Genocide Bad by Sim Kern lays bare the hollow justification for Israel’s occupation of Palestine and its genocide of the Palestinian people. Whatever your stance on the “Palestinian Question,” the issues Kern details must be confronted. This book sho ...more | |
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| The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and Birth of the American Superpower by Michel Paradis is the most enjoyable wartime biography of Ike that I’ve read. And it doesn’t hurt that the work is meticulously researched and spritely written. And a won ...more | |
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| Robert Henri’s famous book, The Art Spirit is a collection of thoughtful nuggets about living an art life. It is not simply about painting, as Henri makes clear. The exhortations can be affirming or serve as a kick in the rear for those of us consume ...more | |
