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Abby’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Abby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Abby Goldsmith
Goodreads Author
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in The United States
Website
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Influences
Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Scott Sigler
Member Since
August 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/abby_goldsmith
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FIRESTARTER Book Review: Childhood Wonder vs Adult Analysis
Rereading FIRESTARTER. Does Stephen King’s Classic Hold Up? 00:00 Some casual sexism, a bit dated due to it being published in 1980 01:10 When the ordinary is horrific 01:34 When supernatural superpowers was weird and inconceivable 02:32 SPOILERS from here on out! 02:43 Setting audience expectations astronomically high, and ratcheting up the tension 03:06 Stephen […]
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“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
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“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
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“Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.”
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“As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that I didn't have at home.”
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“It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.”
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