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Samuel’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Samuel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Samuel Eddington’s Followers (31)
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Samuel Eddington
Goodreads Author
Born
The United States
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Member Since
July 2007
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/benedorm
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Diamond in the Desert: A History of the Amargosa Valley Library
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2009
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2 editions
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The Hedgehoggiary
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2015
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Samuel’s Recent Updates
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The big question occupying my mind when I finished HOUSES OF RAVICKA was: what's the difference between a great Renee Gladman book and one that just...isn't. The first three books in the Ravicka series, EVENT FACTORY, THE RAVICKANS, and ANA PATOVA CR ...more |
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| A quiet, tender, beautiful book. I loved Little Shrew, his comforting routines, his friends, and his small dreams. I finished the book wanting to know more about him and his world, and I hope that someday we get another window into his life. | |
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Beth wrote: "Thanks for posting about this book, Samuel! I might try to get it through ILL."
It's definitely worth the attempt if the subject matter ap ...more " |
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“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.”
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| Fascinating as both Forteana and outsider art. The meat of this book is a series of artworks -- mostly drawing or paintings, but including a few photos -- that were submitted to the British Ministry of Defense during the period when the MoD kept file ...more | |
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| I loved this book as a child, but only now have come back to it as an adult. It is enchanting, bewildering, cozy, and joyous, just as I remember it being. | |
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| I rate this five stars, but I should note that this is a largely idiosyncratic choice. The author is a brilliant photographer; however, what comes across in this slim book is a story that she deeply wanted to tell, the story of a tiny bird who came i ...more | |
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| Another story of a hummingbird that Arnette Heidcamp helped to overwinter in New York state -- this one the first rufous hummingbird confirmed to be sighted there. Heidcamp writes tenderly and with obvious affection about her little charge, detailing ...more | |
"I would have liked it had it not spend so long a time hearing about his travels and hustling. I guess it’s necessary to get a feel for him but I wanted to get to the art. He was undoubtedly a mad genius and I wonder what he would have done had he bee"
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| Autobiography is a fascinating genre, in that what any given person wants to talk about regarding their life may or may not be anything that the public interested in that person wants to hear about. (This is one reason that one of my favorite Supreme ...more | |
“The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From "The Mower”
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Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From "The Mower”
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“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.”
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“A conversation with Miss Zwida would lead me inevitably to talk about seashells, and I cannot decide what attitude to take, whether to pretend absolute ignorance or to call on a remote experience now vague; it is my relationship with my life, consisting of things never concluded and half erased, that the subject of seashells forces me to contemplate; hence the uneasiness that finally puts me to flight.”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.”
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“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
