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C.J.’s 2024 Year in Books
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Review: The Marfa Blues
*The Marfa Blues* is a thoroughly enjoyable yarn with the most diverse and engaging characters I’ve encountered in a long time. Having lived in West Texas myself, the idea of a book based on the little town of Marfa intrigued me. But this story was so much more than setting. The book starts in the 19th century when Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, sends troops north with wagons loaded with his treas
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| Genevieve Guenther’s book is chock full of details about the evolving climate crisis and global warming as well as the on-going efforts of the fossil fuel industry and other corporate bodies to undermine any serious attempts to mitigate the crisis. S ...more | |
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| In this innovative work that won the National Book Award, we follow Willis Wu, who since childhood has wanted to be Kung Fu Guy, a contemporary Bruce Lee wanna-be. Instead he’s “generic Asian Man” who plays bit roles in a television series. Much of t ...more | |
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| I read this book knowing that I’d have difficulty understanding the science in it. I took biology & chemistry in school, not physics and certainly not astrophysics. So I didn't understand a lot, although it’s quite clear that Princeton Professor J. R ...more | |
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| Nathaniel Rich’s book *Losing Earth* is a ten-year history beginning in 1979 in which efforts to deal with the looming climate crisis were squelched. He follows environmentalist Rafe Pomerance and others, especially James Hanson, as climate scientist ...more | |
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| For those in a state of denial and who claim that climate change is a hoax, or for the many millions of us who are just not sure of the impacts of climate change, and who think maybe they/we won’t have to deal with it, this book is for you. Bittle do ...more | |
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| Nathaniel Rich’s book *Losing Earth* is a ten-year history beginning in 1979 in which efforts to deal with the looming climate crisis were squelched. He follows environmentalist Rafe Pomerance and others, especially James Hanson, as climate scientist ...more | |
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"Intense recent history of what happened to Global Warming as a political issue. Basically deep-sixed by the right wing in the late 80's. Much of this I knew, some of the details were interesting. Well-researched and written. It did not add to my opti"
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| Dreadful. Choppy writing, totally implausible plot, grammar issues (fewer phone calls, not less phone calls!), an inexplicable “insight” from pseudo-detective Raisin identifying the killer rather than actually figuring out what was going on as detect ...more | |
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| In the near future, humans and robots interact with each other in intense ways in Park’s very imaginative story. This gives readers a great opportunity to consider how humans will handle robotics and AI in coming years. Fundamental questions are aske ...more | |
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Wow! This was a surprise. What a terrific mystery suspense story from an author new to me! We follow Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera in Moab, Utah, as he tries to figure out who murdered Sunshine, a resident artist/crafter who lived at a commune in the so ...more |
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Cozy Mysteries :
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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
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the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
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“If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in the darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.
Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.
Where shall the word be found, where shall the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence”
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If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in the darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.
Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.
Where shall the word be found, where shall the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence”
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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