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David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Breeden
Goodreads Author
Member Since
August 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/revdavid
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Ice Cream and Suicide: Difficult Poems for the Masses
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Another Number
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1998
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Goshen, Land of
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2012
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Can I Take Your Pain?: Part One: Do No Harm
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News from the Kingdom of God: Meditations on The Gospel of Thomas
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2011
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The Art of Prophecy: A How-To Guide from Beyond the Grave by Amos, a Major Minor Prophet
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2021
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The Art of Prophecy: A How-To Guide from Beyond the Grave by Amos, a Major Minor Prophet
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Artistas
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1901
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Carrying the bottomless basket writing theo/theapoetics
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2011
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Hey, Schliemann (Mellen Poetry Series; Vol 10)
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David’s Recent Updates
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David Breeden
voted for
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
as
Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Sci-Fi
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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David Breeden
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The Secret Book Society
by Madeline Martin (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction |
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David Breeden
voted for
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
as
Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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David Breeden
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Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) (Vera Wong, #2)
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“Oh, her beauty--the tender maid! Its brilliance gives light like lamps to one travelling in the dark.
She is a pearl hidden in a shell of hair as black as jet,
A pearl for which Thought dives and remains unceasingly in the deeps of that ocean.
He who looks upon her deems her to be a gazelle of the sand-hills, because of her shapely neck and the loveliness of her gestures.”
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She is a pearl hidden in a shell of hair as black as jet,
A pearl for which Thought dives and remains unceasingly in the deeps of that ocean.
He who looks upon her deems her to be a gazelle of the sand-hills, because of her shapely neck and the loveliness of her gestures.”
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“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
― The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858
― The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858
“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.”
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“As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the romanticizers, whose bait is nothing more than the wishful insinuation that we have done no harm. Speaking a public language of propaganda, uninfluenced by the real content of our history which we know only in a deep and guarded privacy, we are still in the throes of the paradox of the “gentleman and soldier.”
However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.”
― The Hidden Wound
However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.”
― The Hidden Wound
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