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Conrad Wesselhoeft

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Conrad Wesselhoeft worked as a tugboat hand in Singapore and Peace Corps Volunteer in Polynesia before embarking on a career in journalism. He has served on the editorial staffs of five newspapers, including The New York Times. He is the author of ADIOS, NIRVANA (2010) and DIRT BIKES, DRONES, AND OTHER WAYS TO FLY (2014), two contemporary young-adult novels from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He lives in West Seattle. You can learn more about him at conradwesselhoeft.com.

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	Adios, Nirvana 3.98 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly 4.03 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Conrad Wesselhoeft rated a book really liked it John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Sharp, insightful look at the intense friendship and creative partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. However, I struggle with the author's premise, namely that, creatively, John and Paul stood head and shoulders above the other two Beatles, a ...more
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Extremely atmospheric and lush tale of youthful friendship, love and war in the mythic world of Ancient Greece. Steady, good-hearted Patroclus—best friend forever to mighty Achilles—narrates with all of his senses on full display. My favorite charact ...more
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I visited Hiroshima in the spring of 2024, arriving at the height of cherry blossom season. As the days past, the petals fell in blizzards. At Peace Memorial Park, I met Mito Kosei, a 78-year-old "in utero survivor" of the atomic bomb. A former Engli ...more
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Conrad Wesselhoeft rated a book it was amazing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Well, I finally got around to "HP #1" and just loved it. Reading at its best: clever, exciting, tender and hopeful, each character finely drawn from Rowling's rich imagination. Twenty-five years ago, my three little kids tested me as a reader of this ...more
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Well, I finally got around to "HP #1" and just loved it. Reading at its best: clever, exciting, tender and hopeful, each character finely drawn from Rowling's rich imagination. Twenty-five years ago, my three little kids tested me as a reader of this ...more
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“Everybody's wondering, how can I arrange the daisies and dandelions of my life into a better bouquet? The answer is, you can't. Life is random. Life is absurd. Life is deadly. The bouquet arranges itself. And it doesn't always bloom or smell good.”
― Conrad Wesselhoeft, Adios, Nirvana

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“To live is to swim toward the shimmer, to die is to never try.”
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“That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.”
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.”
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

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“To live is to swim toward the shimmer, to die is to never try.”
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“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."

[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
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