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April’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at April’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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April Follies
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Low tastes
Macbeth and King Lear are both well-written tragedies, but I find the former exciting, the latter mostly depressing. I think the reason I have a sneaking love for melodrama is that everything in it is of overwhelming urgency. More realistic works feed my underlying suspicions that my own concerns are petty, my actions trivial, and most of my striving ultimately pointless. It is sometimes difficult
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A Few Follies
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Light-hearted and subtly satirical With a title like that, you’d expect a lot of humor, and indeed the book delivers. We get to follow a “Mundane” parent into the modern magical school system, and it’s extremely relatable - even for a not-parent like ...more |
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“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
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“No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two
hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist
anywhere in the United States of America.”
― The Long Tomorrow
hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist
anywhere in the United States of America.”
― The Long Tomorrow
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Thief of Time
― Thief of Time
¡ POETRY !
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
