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Geri’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Geri’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Geri Hoekz
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February 2008
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When participatory arts flourish, so does quality of life
In some writing groups I've participated in or observed, there has been an attitude of scarcity.This attitude says that the higher the number of people practicing any given art, the smaller the gain for everyone involved. This may be true if we're only talking about commercial prospects and market share. But if many of those practitioners are writing, painting, singing (or whatever) mainly for the
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| A fascinating look into the workings of Congress. She has many detractors, including some Democrats who think her style is too "hard." But she gets stuff done. And if you're Speaker of the House, you can't be a cupcake. And if a male MoC wouldn't be ...more | |
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| Tired of impossible dreams, loudmouthed motivational speakers, new year's resolutions and the feeling of running on an endless hamster wheel of self-improvement? This is your book. Burkeman doesn't advocate giving up all your aspirations and spending ...more | |
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| This is the most comprehensive book I've read on music history and musicology written for a popular audience. The only reason I gave 4 stars is because of some noticeable omissions - I'd have given an additional half-star if possible. Readers will pr ...more | |
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| A wide-sweeping historical view through photos of what working women have worn since the mid-19th century (and haven't most women always been working women?). The pictures include African women balancing jugs of water on their heads, early 20th centu ...more | |
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit--qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. It is growth along these lines that will make us whole, and will enable the individual to become world to himself.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”
― The Six Rules of Maybe
― The Six Rules of Maybe
“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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“Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
The innocent in gaols
Beat on their bars together.
A hunger-striker's father
Stands in the graveyard dumb.
The police widow in veils
Faints at the funeral home.
History says, don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracle
And cures and healing wells.
Call miracle self-healing:
The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
Of new life at its term.”
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They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
The innocent in gaols
Beat on their bars together.
A hunger-striker's father
Stands in the graveyard dumb.
The police widow in veils
Faints at the funeral home.
History says, don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracle
And cures and healing wells.
Call miracle self-healing:
The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
Of new life at its term.”
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