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Tim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Tim Cummings’s Followers (72)
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Tim Cummings
Goodreads Author
Born
in Port Jefferson, The United States
January 15
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Influences
Madeleine L'Engle
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Member Since
May 2011
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Alice the Cat
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2023
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Night Terrors Vol. 11: Short Horror Stories Anthology
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2021
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The Lightning People Play
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Orphans
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2011
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4 editions
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Night Terrors Volumes 10 - 12: Short Horror Stories Anthology (Night Terrors, #10-12)
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ANTHOLOGY: The Ojai Playwrights Conference Youth Workshop 2006-2016
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New Reviews
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* Review Rating: 5 Stars –
Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers’ Favorite
The Lightning People Play by Tim Cummings is a young adult novel that mixes elements of magical realism with deeply grounded emotion. Kirby Renton is a 14-year-old boy trying to hold his family together. His younger brother Baxter suffe Read more of this blog post »
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* Review Rating: 5 Stars –
Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers’ Favorite
The Lightning People Play by Tim Cummings is a young adult novel that mixes elements of magical realism with deeply grounded emotion. Kirby Renton is a 14-year-old boy trying to hold his family together. His younger brother Baxter suffe Read more of this blog post »
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Tim Cummings
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The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
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Tim Cummings
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"Thanks to Unnamed Press for sending me this advanced reading copy.
This book is about family, death and finding out past secrets. There are a lot of family themes. The story is sad and moving but written very beautifully. I enjoyed this one! I’ll hav" Read more of this review » |
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"What a stunning book 🥹 this had so much of what I love in a book and was so beautifully written. It was atmospheric and the grief cut straight through. This one just hits right for me. "
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"Daytime Moon is magnificent, a literary meditation about family, memory, and belonging with deep emotional stakes. Like trying to capture meaning in one’s life with a net, Schlottman beautifully illustrates the longing we all have for the places we c"
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Daytime Moon is an unwavering exploration of found family, and of finding oneself by discovering unknown origins, embarking on unexpected sojourns, and claiming one's own genuineness. It’s a mystical story that traverses the treacherous lakes, oceans ...more |
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“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years”
― Orphans
― Orphans
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.”
― Orphans
― Orphans
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.
-James (from "Descendants of the Eminent")”
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-James (from "Descendants of the Eminent")”
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
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