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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.
Abby Goldsmith’s Followers (146)
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Abby Goldsmith
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Scott Sigler
Member Since
August 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/abby_goldsmith
More books by Abby Goldsmith…
Are We Heading Into A POST-LITERATE SOCIETY?
“Students who read for fun on their own time fell from 27% to 14% in 2012 to 2023. Those who never or hardly ever read for fun on their own jumped from 22% to 31%.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us... https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-... https://jabberwocking.com/is-the-plun... https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... Here’s my AuthorTube take on the decline of literacy. 00:00 The Ameri
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bookshelves:
currently-reading,
war,
superpowers,
sff,
pov-non-human,
indie-authors,
cults-and-religion,
apocalyptic,
advanced-tech
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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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