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Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
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I was watching my husband pulling out the packaging from an Amazon delivery box this morning so the cat could get into it when it occurred to me: Maybe Amazon is secretly organized and run by cats to supply themselves with boxes.
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| I knew I should have written the review immediately after finishing the book. Now I can't remember the main character's name. Anyway, we have four girls, all cousins, all orphans, living with their aunt who runs a girls' school which has seen better ...more | |
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| When I downloaded the 1922 version of this book from Project Gutenberg, I didn't know it was about politics (their descriptions can be pretty sparse sometimes) or I probably wouldn't have bothered. And I would have missed out. This description of the ...more | |
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I did finish it, but I wish I hadn't. A large collection of inter-related characters, almost all unpleasant, no real plot, expressions of lots of differing opinions by people who may or may not have believed what they were saying. I prefer tales of gr ...more |
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"Walter Lippman calls democracy as thought of in America a myth. In this careful examination of the subject he provides factual evidence for his thinking that I believe is irrefutable.
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"Want to understand the last hundred years, and maybe the next hundred, in terms of the interplay between mass media and people's assumptions? The short book is an awfully good start."
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"Georgette Heyer never allowed this book to be republished in her lifetime and, unlike Simon the Coldheart which laboured under a similar ban, it has never been republished after her death either. Because of this I approached The Great Roxhythe with s"
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| A delightful children's book in the best tradition. A tropical island, a story of hidden treasure, kids who are neither too good or too bad to be true, written by an author who obviously hasn't forgotten what it's like to be a child. Though the main ...more | |
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| This is sort of a sequel to The Believing Years, having the same narrator and some of the same characters, but it has a much less autobiographical feel to it. Some of the boys have hired Captain Bannister and his boat to go on a cruise for a week amo ...more | |
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| Through Unknown Ways: An Old-World Story, is one of the Stanton-Corbet Chronicles, a look at the history of the Protestant church in England (though I think one of the books is set at least partly in France) through the eyes of ordinary people, gener ...more | |
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| I usually like Croft's books but I just couldn't get into this one, especially the first half. I think it's because I've read too many of these old mysteries lately with similar ideas--another Croft split in two halves with painstaking chasing down o ...more | |
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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