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Stephen’s 2025 Year in Books
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Stephen Gallup
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What About the Boy?
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2011
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7 editions
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Let’s Not Let It Slip Away
Try this experiment some time. Let’s say the conversation going on around you concerns sports—college, pro, doesn’t matter. At a pause, casually mention, with a straight face, “Did you guys know they’re adding origami as one of the Olympic sports?”
Observe the reactions of those around you. It’s a ridiculous idea, of course. Folding paper is a pastime, a hobby, perhaps an art form, but not a sport.
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I'm likely to be a long time reading this tome. As far as I know, no other readrs have commented on the dreamlike, or even Kafkaesque, quality that some passages have, such as:
May I walk with you? Again, this is really a stupid thing to say.
You're r ...more "
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I requested this book from the public library, but so much time passed before its arrival that I'd forgotten the reason for wanting to read it. The very nice introduction by John McGahern got me oriented. The intro states that among other things the n ...more |
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| I've read and commented on three other books by Neil Gaiman, and understand he's considered a master of his genre. Those three felt like enough. Actually, it was two and a half, because I didn't finish Neverwhere. As mentioned in that write-up, there ...more | |
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I admire this novel more than anything else that's come my way in the recent past. Knowing nothing about the author, I wonder if in some way it may be autobiographical fiction. Maybe that's just because it concerns a young man's misadventures in going ...more |
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“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― What About the Boy?
― What About the Boy?
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― What About the Boy?
― What About the Boy?
“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”
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“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”
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“I knew that we'd never get there. I knew this, in the same way I knew Tati would never be a teacher, and that Benny would be the end of me. Life's about confirming what we already know. About making sure. ”
― Miles from Nowhere
― Miles from Nowhere
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Thank you, Stephen. Obviously, I didn't dig far enough! :)
Hi Steve,Thanks for the invite. Good to see you here. Have a great weekend.
Ed
