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David’s 2025 Year in Books
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Collected Posts on NSSF SHOT Show
I have only been to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show) once. I am attending the show, held annually in Las Vegas, for the second time this year.
This made me realize I needed to set up a page for collecting my posts on the show.
The following are all of my posts on the SHOT Show to date. I will update this page as necessary to keep a
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| Full disclosure: Kevin Creighton is a friend of mine. Additional information: I don’t recommend every book my friends write. I don’t typically read fiction in this genre, but I read the book in manuscript as a favor to Kevin and really enjoyed it. As ...more | |
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| In June of 1989, I was visiting a friend at UC-Santa Cruz when I was confronted by a video of a solitary man blocking a column of tanks on Chang’an Avenue in Beijing. The tanks were headed to Tiananmen Square to put down a student uprising there. As ...more | |
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| This novel was recommended to me by a member of my virtual book club, J.J. Janflone. Gun Love tells the story of Pearl, a teenage girl raised by her mother, Margo, in a 1994 Mercury parked next to a Florida trailer park. Margo and Pearl try to live w ...more | |
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| Campus novel meets the manosphere. The protagonist is a literature professor at a liberal arts college and also a devotee of weight lifting. Harold hates the former and lives for the latter. He sees his colleagues and students as both physically and ...more | |
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| Protagonist Sarah is a religious studies PhD student on the academic job market. While important, that's not what's driving this story.Rape and, more specifically, campus rape culture is front and center. There are some very disturbing scenes and the ...more | |
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| I should have liked this book more than I did -- a campus satire centered on a divinity school professor at a thinly disguised University of Chicago. The "nimbus" in question is the protagonist's toddler, who mysteriously begins to glow, bringing the ...more | |
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| A true campus satire about husband and wife faculty members, their student, infidelity, and obsession. This novel is set in a creative writing program and ostensibly is a MFA thesis with the title "Seduction Theory" submitted to that same program. Th ...more | |
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| An (at times) fun and funny take on a "mixed marriage": Keru is the child of immigrant Chinese parents and Nate's family are Appalachian Americans. How will they negotiate their differences while on vacation on Cape Cod and the Catskills? To add to t ...more | |
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