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Matthew’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Matthew Budman’s Followers (82)
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Matthew Budman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Goleta, Calif., The United States
Website
Twitter
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Member Since
October 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/matthewbudman
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Instant Expert: Collecting Books
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2004
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Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age
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2019
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Heroes
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1999
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Matthew’s Recent Updates
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is 75% done with Actress of a Certain Age: “In my experience, telling someone to calm down has the opposite effect.”
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"I was waiting for this one for a long time .. space? romance? One of my favorite authors?
But .. a little underwhelming, especially the first half of the book. "Atmosphere" takes us on two timelines: the setup of the astronaut's life, and then, concurr" Read more of this review » |
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| Susan Orlean has spent her career making us care about people & events & subcultures in which we have no inherent interest, in which the exceptional isn’t obvious. She has always sought out and written stories other writers would overlook. The challe ...more | |
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| Reread in between new-to-me books. It's a solid Fleming adventure, with Bond a catalyst for action—in this case, disrupting an international diamond-smuggling operation—not because he's the smirking superhero of the screen adaptations but because he' ...more | |
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| Susan Orlean has spent her career making us care about people & events & subcultures in which we have no inherent interest, in which the exceptional isn’t obvious. She has always sought out and written stories other writers would overlook. The challe ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| All About Books: * Non-Fiction - What are you reading? | 5484 | 1297 | Oct 13, 2025 11:53PM |
“There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
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