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Rick’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Rick Skwiot
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in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States
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October 2010
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Fail: A Carlo Gabriel Mystery
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2014
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Christmas at Long Lake - A Childhood Memory
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2005
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Key West Story
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2012
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Sleeping with Pancho Villa
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1998
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The Bootlegger's Bride
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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing
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2010
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Death in Mexico
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2010
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Flesh
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1998
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Winter at Long Lake: A Childhood Christmas Memoir
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2003
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[(Fail)] [By (author) Rick Skwiot] published on (October, 2014)
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Three books with unlikely heroines
Of books I’ve read thus far this year, three with unlikely heroines, one real, two fictional, stand out:
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Similarly, the tragic title character of my new novel The Bootlegger’s Bride struggles to ultimately do the right thing to free her son from her shadow. You can read a sample of early chapters on Amazon.com:
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| While other leaders were striving to avoid a European war in 1914, the love-and-liquor besotted 60-year-old British Prime Minister H.H. Asquith was writing 560 love letters (as many as four a day) to comely 26-year-old heiress Venetia Stanley (much t ...more | |
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Hi, Nick... I just now read your comment... I like also what Simenon has to say about writing craft, always admonishing himself to "cut, cut, cut." He
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Hello... I'm Rick Skwiot and have worked as a writer of one sort or another for virtually my whole adult life... My new historical novel "The Bootlegg
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“There are three things a man must do before he dies: plant a tree, father a child, and write a book.”
― Sleeping with Pancho Villa
― Sleeping with Pancho Villa
“I do not drink from this jug every day. But sometimes at night when the wind blows and I am alone and feeling very solitary, it is my only friend and comfort. Right, Pancho?”
― Flesh
― Flesh
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