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A.L.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at A.L.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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A.L. Stumo
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Some Good Comments
This book was entered into the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards and received some good comments from the judge. The prime question is typed below in its entirety.
“What did you like best about this book?
A great deal of historical research obviously went into this book in order to blend characters, plot and setting, and I think the effort paid off for the author. I especially liked the his
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Precious Norman Honor
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2011
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3 editions
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“Readers tend to tolerate such "accidents"... when they get the characters into trouble but they're less accepting when the author uses them to rescue people. The "deus ex machina"...in one stroke it renders meaningless all the efforts of the cast.”
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“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
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“I'll not listen to reason...Reason always means what some one else has got to say.”
― Cranford
― Cranford
“But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.”
― Cranford
― Cranford
“Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
― Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
― Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
