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Stephen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stephen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Stephen Gallup
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in Louisville, KY, The United States
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What About the Boy?
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2011
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7 editions
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Deerfield, summer 1960;: A paper submitted for the Heritage Foundation, Aug. 29, 1960
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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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Stephen Gallup said:
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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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| From the very first pages it's obvious that this story comes from the same guy who wrote The Martian. A man wakes up to find himself in what appears to be a spacecraft. He's disoriented to the point of having amnesia, apparently as a consequence of h ...more | |
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"When I was very young, my mother told me that the chief value of good fiction is it allows the reader to better understand other men and women. Even so, I have never read much fiction. Moreover, most of what I do read is science fiction, which is usu"
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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife:
"I am not sure how often most people think about death. For myself, I think about my death several dozen times per day. This is not a morbid fixation, merely focused self-interest combined with practicality. I have never understood those who refuse to"
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The Midnight Train (The Midnight World, #2)
by Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
5 copies
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| A Man in Full may represent my most painful reading experience ever. At least, I recall no other story that conveyed such acute and sustained feelings of (for example) dismay, horror, and embarrassment for the characters. Increasingly, as I read, I a ...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
