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Peter’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Warhol Gang
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Has the World Ended Yet? Tales to Astonish
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The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross)
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Has the World Ended Yet?
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Deja Yu Makes the Pain Go Away: A Story
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Beat the Geeks: A Story
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I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before
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Writing Lessons
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2011
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The Wonder Lands War (Book of Cross)
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
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| Keep Going by Austin Kleon is a slim little book but it’s one of my most highlighted books after only one read. Billing itself as a primer on “ways to stay creative in good times and bad,” Keep Going is an informal yet deeply insightful series of med ...more | |
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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
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| Author Ernest Cunningham joins a writers fest on a cross-country train in Australia in the hopes of finding inspiration to follow his debut novel, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. You can probably see where this is going right away and, yes, ...more | |
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Hard-boiled British Columbia. That’s what best describes Sam Wiebe’s Ocean Drive, a dirty thriller set in the idyllic community of White Rock on BC’s West Coast. Only this paradise by the water has a seamy underside of sex, drugs and murder. Lots of m ...more |
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| Deranged mercenary war mages, scheming celestials, diabolical internals, dark magic, black humour and vampire kangaroos. Enough said. | |
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Babel is a complex and multilayered novel that defies easy description — which is befitting, given its subject matter. Equal parts historical fantasy, dark academia, anticolonial manifesto and coming-of-age tale, Babel relates the tale of Robin Swift, ...more |
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Of Monsters and Mainframes is a fantastic mashup of space opera, quirky AIs and pulp horror — like if Murderbot had a dream of Halloween. The tale follows the voyages of Demeter, a sentient spaceship that hauls passengers around the galaxy. But someth ...more |
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| The Shamrock Motel is a magical place that can only be found by those who are lost — both geographically and emotionally. The tales in this collection follow an eccentric cast of characters who all reach some crossroads in their life and end up check ...more | |
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| Silvia Moreno-Garcia impossibly keeps getting better as a writer with each book — which bodes well for readers given she seems to write a book a year. The Bewitching is one of her finest yet — a slow burn of story that combines a multigenerational sa ...more | |
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| Police officer Daniel Carter retires and becomes a private investigator after a strange and horrific case that results in the suicide of his partner. But his life is turned inside out again when he inherits a bookstore run by Emily Lovecraft, a desce ...more | |
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| If Wishes Were Retail is the charming tale of Alex, a teen who can’t find any other job but working for a genie who has opened a mall kiosk selling wishes to mall-goers. The genie has little understanding of this world and is constantly offended by i ...more | |
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ChiZine Publications
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ChiZine Publications is a Canadian independent publisher specializing in weird, subtle, and disturbing literary fiction. CZP wants fiction that takes ...more
Urban Fantasy
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Urban fantasy is a subset of contemporary fantasy, consisting of magical novels and stories set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings--as oppose ...more
