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Rupert’s 2025 Year in Books
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Rupert W. Nacoste
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| "At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or compre ...more | |
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| Somehow I missed the news that Philip Gerard died in 2022. We were not friends, but I had spent a week with him as he led a writer's workshop on creative nonfiction. Learning from him I had completed and published my creative nonfiction memoir, "Mak ...more | |
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| I am now retired but when I was "out and about" doing my thing as a professor I had little time for pleasure reading. But I found ways to fit pleasure reading in by stacking up on novellas. Novellas saved and maintained by love of reading for pleasu ...more | |
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I wanted more. God I liked this story. I was really taken with the crisp writing, the dreadful setting, the young characters (Zuzu and her Valleycats), and Snap. But there was only, for me a skeleton of a novel. I wanted more. |
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"Who are your people?" That's a question asked by a person who lives through their ethnic group. The questioner has a "sense of peoplehood" with a collective. Angeline Boulley has written a thrilling novel of "her people," the Ojibwe who live in th ...more |
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With lyrical writing and uncanny attention to plot details, Laini Taylor has produced for us an outstanding duology. Where book 1 was intriguing and beguiling, book 2 was thrilling. We are in a world like no other. A world of gods, godslayers, godspa ...more |
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"Few will ever witness an act destined to become legend. How does it happen, that the events of a day or a night--or a life--are translated into story?" How indeed does a story, like that of Strange, with all of its wonderful complexity end up a nov ...more |
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"War...what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Say it again!" Edwin Starr (1970) Here we have a story of WWI in all its gruesome detail. Mangled bodies, beheaded bodies, exploded bodies, gassed bodies; just war! But, this is a novel not just about ...more |
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"Good lord!" I almost yelled that when I finished this brutal and bloody, lyrical and moving, novella. Who is this Fonda Lee who can conjure up this world of giant birds and terrifying ape-faced monsters (manticores)? Ester is a "manticore" (read mo ...more |
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Here we have a very fun speculation about how we might adapt to severe climate change. What if we set up biodomes, and in those domes we assign people to social levels based on how they contribute to our ongoing attempts to survive. In London, Adae ...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
