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Rupert’s 2025 Year in Books
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Rupert W. Nacoste
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| As always, very entertaining. This one was complex, but rightly so. It was not so much "interesting," as delightfully captivating. Scalzi at his best. ...more | |
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| Joe King Oliver can't seem to keep himself out of entanglements. And these are dangerous entanglements. One entanglement comes to Joe thru a friend who would like Joe to look into the arrest of a white supremacist. Okay, wait; a white man asks a bla ...more | |
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What the hell was that? Okay, to be fair, I kind of get it. What it was, was glimpses. Glimpses into another world of humanity. But it was frustrating because it was only glimpses. The one time I was in London, I took a double-decker bus tour. The p ...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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Who actually wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare? What if a woman was the most effective writer among those who actually were the authors? How would that have happened? And who might that woman have been? Those are the questions th ...more |
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Respect! When I reached page 50 of this intense, incredible, novel, out loud I exclaimed, "what a surprise!" By then I had come to understand that this was no simple novel of a crime, but a story steeped in Irish mythology and history. That mythology ...more |
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Mysterious, odd, funny, ghostly. I'm not sure how to think about this small novel. It was quite well written, intriguing. But is it a story, a meditation... okay, it's a meditation on family. And that meditation lives through the return of dead fam ...more |
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"Relationships present to us, problems to solve." In book 1 and 2, Mossa and Pleiti's story is a romance. Not so, book 3. Yes, they are still pulled to, attracted to, each other. Yes, there are a mix of feelings. Yes, they have sex. All of that is p ...more |
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Book 2, and it's STILL a romance. But truly a romance with a difference. First off, of course, it's set on a different world. Remember, we, humans, have made Earth unlivable. We had to leave, and we are set up on a part of Jupiter. Second off, on ...more |
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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
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It's a romance! Don't misunderstand me. Yes, this is a science fiction, robbery, murder, mystery. But at its heart is the mystery of what will happen between Mossa and Pleiti. Along with all the other tension points, that romantic tension point is o ...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
