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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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Michael Libling
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Canada
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Kurt Vonnegut, Mordecai Richler, Clark Blaise, Robert Silverberg, Barr
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Member Since
March 2014
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https://www.goodreads.com/turnerpaige
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There is a desperation to a novel that is unsettling. The world so painstakingly re-created in miniature; this tiny diorama made of words. Why go to all this trouble, to create me, to seduce you, to enumerate so many different breakfast cereals? To m" Read more of this review » |
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"My selection was probably influenced by watching Prodigal Son, which is also about a serial killer's son.
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Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built:
"The depth of research and content by Ms. Feldman is almost overwhelming. For anyone who's enjoyed Bennett Cerf's groan-some puns and repartee on the original What's My Line series, but wondered about his real career, this tome will certainly fill in "
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Insightful. Inspiring. Affecting. With an underlying wistfulness for a time and place now largely forgotten along, no doubt, with Bennett Cerf himself.... This meticulously researched and detailed biography is a must-read for writers, readers, or any ...more |
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Insightful. Inspiring. Affecting. With an underlying wistfulness for a time and place now largely forgotten along, no doubt, with Bennett Cerf himself.... This meticulously researched and detailed biography is a must-read for writers, readers, or any ...more |
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“The life we are given is complicated enough, dear, without the added strain of preparing for the next.”
― Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels
― Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels
“The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They’re disaster-prone. Something goes wrong. The sky starts falling on their head. And you can’t reverse the process.”
― The Deep Blue Good-By
― The Deep Blue Good-By
“Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.”
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