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Rupert’s 2025 Year in Books
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Rupert W. Nacoste
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Written with grace, this is a novel of grace. And grace, for me, has always been some underlying force of the universe; God. For me, at 73 years old, I can say that for most of my adult life I have believed in the power of grace. I have said it this ...more |
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| When I finished this novel, I said to myself, that's a really nice piece of science fiction. Examples, for me, of "a really nice piece of science fiction" include the Tom Cruise movie "Oblivion." Nothing spectacular, but an engaging story from begin ...more | |
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| Ok...there is so much going on here. This is a complex and complicated, romantic, murder mystery, with librarians as the heroes. But these heroes are flawed; confused by attraction, holding onto secrets, sometimes befuddled by their own lives. And i ...more | |
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What a lovely, wondrous, surprise. But how, you ask could a supernatural, horror, western be both lovely and wondrous? Yes, it is supernatural; yes there are scenes of horror. But the writing, the narrative voice is so lyrical as to gentle the horr ...more |
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I made a mistake. I misunderstood the meaning of "stand-alone" in the description of this novella. Turns out it is a "stand-alone" that adds to the ongoing story of the wayward-children. "In an Absent Dream" is actually the back story of one of the ...more |
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| "Darmok" is considered by many, myself included, to be one of the best episodes of Star Trek-The Next Generation. That is so because in that episode the assumption that the "universal translator" can make it possible to communicate with any alien spe ...more | |
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A book can impact a person's life. We don't always expect that, and when it happens we don't always know how it happened. About that, in this novel, Chanel Cleeton the author says: "Who could predict the strange alchemy that matched a reader to a boo ...more |
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Magical! I have read three magnificent novels by Emma Donoghue. I have read the magnificent, disturbing, humane, "Room." I have read the magnificent, mysterious, haunting, "State of Wonder." And I have now read, "Frog Music." With Frog Music, Ms. Do ...more |
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"Dear Readers,
I love all my characters, but 12-year-old Michael Rosario has my whole heart. He loves his Mama, a single mother who works three jobs. He loves his babysitter, Gibby (but in a very different way, of course!) And he loves Mr. Mosley, the " Read more of this review » |
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Turns out this is not just a time-travel novel. Turns out this is not just a middle grade novel. Turns out... well, it's not what it seems on the surface. It is so much more meaningful. In bed, last night, I finished this accomplished novel. That i ...more |
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“Turns out... not knowing how to have respectful social interactions with a person 'not like me' is what is tearing at the soul of America.”
― To Live Woke: Thoughts to Carry in Our Struggle to Save the Soul of America
― To Live Woke: Thoughts to Carry in Our Struggle to Save the Soul of America
“started outlining this book because I know we are on the verge of losing the American Dream. Today, somehow, we have let young people feel that it's OK to speak about other Americans using the language of hate: niggers, bitches, spics, ragheads, retards. What's the big deal? It's all just a big joke anyway, right? Now I was being called to help our nation penetrate that thick fog of”
― Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move from Anxiety to Respect
― Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move from Anxiety to Respect
“Turns out... not knowing how to have respectful social interactions with a person 'not like me' is what is tearing at the soul of America.”
― To Live Woke: Thoughts to Carry in Our Struggle to Save the Soul of America
― To Live Woke: Thoughts to Carry in Our Struggle to Save the Soul of America
