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Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
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She Taught Me Everything
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The Sad Cancer Saloon: A Short Story
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Happy Midwinter Holidays
Hello friends-
A quick note to thank you for reading!
I just e-published a short story "The Sad Cancer Saloon" on KOBO and Apple and Amazon. Like my novel, She Taught Me Everything, it's a contemporary family drama, about ;6 or 7 pages of siblings facing the inevitable with their chipper but dying father. I hope you'll enjoy it!
It's meant to be free, as a thank-you gift, but I've found it's never e Read more of this blog post »
A quick note to thank you for reading!
I just e-published a short story "The Sad Cancer Saloon" on KOBO and Apple and Amazon. Like my novel, She Taught Me Everything, it's a contemporary family drama, about ;6 or 7 pages of siblings facing the inevitable with their chipper but dying father. I hope you'll enjoy it!
It's meant to be free, as a thank-you gift, but I've found it's never e Read more of this blog post »
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Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives:
"More academic than readable.
My star awarding system is 5-will read again with pleasure. Rare 4-very good read, very good effort 3- ok read, ok effort 2- author wrote a book and I read it 1- wasted my time, lazy effort If I don’t leave a star review it mea" Read more of this review » |
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On the one hand, a reader MUST admire the facility with which William Styron catalogues his pain. On the other, it feels—judge me if you must—faintly as if someone is rhapsodizing about an oozing sore. Yes, indeed, that is the radiating pain and the r ...more |
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| What if the infamous Residential Schools were revived after an apocalyptic disaster has destroyed most of modern society? And what if the white ruling class were not trying to oppress, suppress, and convert Indigenous people, but instead do medical r ...more | |
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The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions: How to Make Decisions without Losing Your Mind (Books By Joseph Nguyen):
"I decided to dislike this book without overthinking it or losing my mind.
For those new to self help it might have value but there’s a lot of recycled material in it for the seasoned reader. " |
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"Despite the name, don’t plan on getting a lot of information on snow leopards in this wordy account of a Himalayan trek. In 1973 the author and a biologist friend decide to go in search of snow leopards and mountain blue sheep at the beginning of win"
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"Writing that squeezes the coal of life into sparkling diamonds."
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“My sister taught me everything I knew back then. She taught me how to tie my shoes and she made sure I finished my homework. When she shook me awake in the middle of the night and said, “It’s time to get out of here,” I got up and went because it was how she helped me get ready for the world.”
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“My sister taught me everything I knew back then. She taught me how to tie my shoes and she made sure I finished my homework. When she shook me awake in the middle of the night and said, "It's time to get out of here," I got up and went because it was how she helped me get ready for the world.”
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“When the telephone rang in the middle of the night, I knew.
The Tennessee state trooper on the other end said, "Your sister's been hurt pretty bad."
In my haste to get to Nashville I didn't ask a single question.
There had been a car accident. What else did I need to know?
I'd been dreading a call like that my whole life.”
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The Tennessee state trooper on the other end said, "Your sister's been hurt pretty bad."
In my haste to get to Nashville I didn't ask a single question.
There had been a car accident. What else did I need to know?
I'd been dreading a call like that my whole life.”
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“I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.”
― Doomsday Book
― Doomsday Book
“He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”
― Life After Life
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”
― Life After Life
“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
― Like Life
― Like Life
“Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.”
― My One Hundred Adventures
― My One Hundred Adventures
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