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Rupert’s 2025 Year in Books
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This was a tough read. Not because of the writing which was crisp and poetic. This was tough because of domestic violence, anger, murder, and more anger. Some of the softer moments came as we were led into observing the lives of the wolves. Yes the ...more |
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| Donna Barba Higuera YA, science-fiction trilogy is breathtaking. With this last book in the trilogy, Firesnake reveals a deep concern for humanity. Asking important questions about human tendencies in a thrilling, sometimes scary, always provocative ...more | |
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| Surprising! Unexpected! You see, this is the 2nd book in a triology. First book had us in outer space in search of a livable planet after Earth is destroyed by an off path Halley's Comet. So, as a trilogy I assumed the 2nd book would keep us on the ...more | |
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| "We live by story," says the writer Richard Rhodes. Indeed, stories are how humans convey lots of information about life, about identities, about life-lessons, about how to make it in hard times. But at the end of the world as we know it, who will c ...more | |
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For me, a five star novel must leave me with the feeling that I have had an important experience. "The Bone Thief" did just that. Here we have a novel that digs deep into the lived experience of the Indigenous Native peoples of Rhode Island. An exp ...more |
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| I am amazed at how much was packed into this novella. It's the human world, but through the eyes of elephant preservist, elephant hunters, mammoth deextinctionist, and finally the mammoths themselves. Not to mention a technology that makes it possib ...more | |
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Damn! Oh shit! This is a thriller. This is speculative fiction par excellence! What if there was a person who could see 5 seconds into the future? How would that change the person's experiences in our world? How could that ability make others perceiv ...more |
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| Entertaining, thought-provoking, thought-challenging, and yes, thrilling. Cherokee and two-spirit, Syd Walker is drawn back home to Oklahoma. That's where she grew up among other Cherokee and other indigenous people. Picher, Oklahoma is a drab and r ...more | |
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Not just a goodread...a one in a million GOOD read. This is a story of the dust bowl in Nebraska. But it is a story told through multiple voices, some natural, some supernatural, some just getting by, some having to struggle just to try to live with ...more |
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| Cherie Dimaline continues to draw on her indigenous origins to write intriguing, entertaining, educational, novels. In this case, it is the myth of the rogarou that is the anchor of story. Rogarou, that werewolf creature, but not the one people thin ...more | |
“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