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T.G.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at T.G.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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T.G. Hardy
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Influences
BOOKS: Any Human Heart (William Boyd); The Tender Bar (J.R. Moehringer
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July 2013
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https://www.goodreads.com/donaflor
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Where the Sabiá Bird Sings: A Novel
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"I’ve read many excellent novels by Trevor but it may be that he is an even better short story writer than novelist. In the blurbs, one from the New Yorker, in which Trevor published many stories over the years, one critic said “Trevor is probably the"
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"A classic. Certainly THE classic Sicilian novel and some critics say it may be THE classic Italian novel. It’s the story of a wealthy Sicilian prince set around 1860 when Garibaldi is unifying Italy (the Risorgimento). Garibaldi’s men, the Redshirts,"
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"Ah, Gabriela, scent and color, a beautiful young woman, almost still a girl, who arrived in the city with a rag-tag band of starving, dirty immigrants from the backlands of northeastern Brazil in the 1920s.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)
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If you haven't read Memoir From Antproof Case, you might consider it. It is set in Brazil and paints Niterói, post-war, convincingly (I was a boy in R
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“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?”
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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
