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Geoffrey’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Geoffrey’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Geoffrey Gates
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Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Carey, Franz Kafka, Milan Kunder
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Lakkos Artists Residency (Crete, Greece)
Left to right: Mural by Japanese artist Silsil; Minoan artefact;
Residency courtyard.
Writing to you from Heraklion, Greece. Let’s help you to picture this: Heraklion (Iraklio) is a city of about 140,000, on the island of Crete, midway between Greece and Turkey. If you picture the Mediterranean Sea (a word I can n
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This is a rich text and its serious themes are handled with the light touch of a writer who knows what it means to have survived a dictatorship. My thoughts here:
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| The back cover of Siang Lu’s ‘Ghost Cities’ compares the allegorical and imaginative novel to Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino, and this seems like a good field. But I like the Australian-Chinese nature of the novel in its dual settings, its comedy ...more | |
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Iris and Floyd are children of convicts – adult orphans, nomadic and symbiotic twins. Just who would be interested in them is another question, castoffs as they are. (Thoughts on Robbie Arnott’s “Dusk”). https://gatesyread.blogspot.com/2026/04/ ...more |
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How to talk about Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866) when the plot is complicated, the ideas complex, and so much has been said already? https://gatesyread.blogspot.com/2026/... ...more |
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The Plains was once described by Ben Lerner as a ‘strange Australian masterpiece’, a novel that ‘can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed’ (The New Yorker, 29 March 2017). Here’s my thoughts. http://gatesyread.blogspot.c ...more |
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My thoughts on #PaulAuster's 1990 novel #TheMusicofChance: something absurd in contemporary American life must have been foreseen in Auster’s terrible fables like this one. https://gatesyread.blogspot.com/2025/... ...more |
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| It takes a certain skill to write a historical novel that feels present. And it takes craft and heart to make the story of one man’s life feel so important – not as representative of anything, but so that the reader can experience vicariously the tri ...more | |
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| The fact that Javier Marías died in September 2022 has no doubt impacted on how I responded to his last novel Berta Isla in 2024. I am one of Marías’s many admirers and was very sad to hear of his passing. Berta Isla may not to be everyone’s taste, b ...more | |
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| The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney has been sitting on my bookshelf for years. It’s not that I don’t admire the author: Richardson’s first novel Maurice Guest (1908) is a true favourite I read about once a decade. But I baulked at Mahoney – it seemed ov ...more | |
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| Question7 explores the life of a writer, the intersections of history & Richard Flanagan's life, a near-death experience that haunts him as profoundly as his father’s suffering as a Japanese prisoner of war, and the fate of Tasmania’s Indigenous peop ...more | |
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