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C.J.’s 2025 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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| In this near-future sci-fi dystopian novel, we meet Seph. He’s a young man who has just graduated from the Institute and almost immediately hired by the tech giant, NexTech. This was a difficult job to win and, in many ways, his dream job. Not only i ...more | |
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| Sherry Thomas is known primarily for her historical romance novels. This is said to be her first foray into the mystery genre. Her background in romance shows in The Librarians. We take a deep dive into the four librarians’ lives, in particular to th ...more | |
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| For me, the real attraction of this engaging mystery is being pulled into the world of jazz, past and present. The main protagonist, Virginia Farrell, is a journalist who writes mainly about jazz. When Virginia has an opportunity to interview older a ...more | |
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I live in Tucson, Arizona, in the American Southwest. I'm a former librarian (university reference), and currently an artist, and writer of mys ...more " |
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| Another terrific Manny Rivera mystery! Deputy Sheriff Rivera investigates the shooting of an anti-poaching amateur-militia member, and proceeds to find and stop the big horn ram poachers. Quickly his investigation morphs and soon he’s looking into mu ...more | |
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| This book has some interesting ideas that pop up, usually when the author considers memory as a form of time travel. However, the book has almost no plot, most of the characters were AI-generated and not that interesting (although I did like the dog ...more | |
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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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| Authors & Reviewers: Closed-Willing to Review in June | 12 | 39 | May 30, 2018 12:24AM | |
Cozy Mysteries :
Mystery ABCs game, Round 7
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| Cozy Mysteries : Mystery ABC GAME, Round 10 | 1058 | 227 | 15 hours, 45 min ago |
“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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