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Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Lisa Batya Feld
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in Princeton, New Jersey, The United States
November 21
Member Since
March 2010
The first stories
For those of us raised in a world of Hollywood three-act story structure, we’re used to stories with a beginning, middle, and end, where the hero is introduced at the beginning, sets out to accomplish something, faces obstacles that necessitate their growth or transformation, and succeeds or fails in their quest at the end, plus a denouement or coda that closes their emotional arc or ties up loose
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Weird Tales #333 [Sept/Oct 2003]
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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
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Solid scholarship from what I could tell. Lots of excerpts from journals and letters of Grant, his family and friends, and so on, so it feels pretty “
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| Given the ongoing heartache in the world, I wanted to see what wisdom Sacks could offer about why we keep going back to hatred and how to shift things. Not in God’s Name seems to be much better at the first than the second. Sacks has great insights i ...more | |
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| Grant’s humanity comes through here, his life as a parent, husband, and friend intertwined with his military career (particularly when his children accompany him during the war). He is shown to be a flexible and unflappable tactical thinker, a man wh ...more | |
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“Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice."
Constructive anger," the demon said, her voice dripping sarcasm.
Also known as passion," I said quietly. "Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.”
― White Night
Constructive anger," the demon said, her voice dripping sarcasm.
Also known as passion," I said quietly. "Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.”
― White Night
