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Martin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Martin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Martin Bodek
Goodreads Author
Born
in Brooklyn, The United States
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Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Mary Roach, Elmore Leonard, Atul Gawan
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Member Since
June 2011
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Zaidy's War: Critical Mass
Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance has hit a kind of critical mass.
First, a book review whispers it in the same breath as Night and The Choice: https://allauthor.com/images/reviews/...
Next, it's donated to Yad Vashem: https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/...?
Then, venues I'm querying for talks and podcasts are suddenly ultr Read more of this blog post »
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Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
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His Excellency Majesty, The Honorable Venerable Professor Director Mr. Doctor Tyson is probably #1 on my expansive list of the one person I'd love to have lunch with, should Providence ever provide me with such a graciously kind opportunity. Having ma ...more |
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Martin
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The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living
by Dara Horn
10 copies
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Caleb O'Connell's review
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Haggadahpalooza: The Unofficial Weirdly Perfect Passover Pop Parody Panoply:
"Haggadahpalooza: The Unofficial Weirdly Perfect Passover Pop Parody Panoply is a wonderfully imaginative and entertaining celebration of Passover that combines tradition, humor, and pop culture in a uniquely engaging way.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: I love thee for smooshing so many genres together, that I completely lost count. I love thee for, through the historical fiction pieces of the narrative, humanizing legends, then legendifying the commonfolk. I ...more |
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I have never read a book that went this deep into any topic, sentence by sentence, word by word, practically syllable by syllable. Not a single stone was left unturned in this extraordinarily penetrating study.[*] Every topic, every mood, every curios ...more |
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It's been a long time since I read anything sci-fi that wasn't Andy Weir. So when Andy Weir himself recommends a book, well, I'm going to read it, to expand my Andy-verse. Bingo! This gem is wildly imaginative, superfun, and deliciously sarcastic. Toss ...more |
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What can a common landlubber like me possibly add to the conversation about a classic? Nothing, that's what. So I'll just slap my 5 stars on this sucker (pun intended!) and offer some observations and questions: 1. The first part of the book was a myst ...more |
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“The lives we live are so much bigger than the bodies we inhabit.”
― Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance
― Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance
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“The lives we live are so much bigger than the bodies we inhabit.”
― Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance
― Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance
Goodreads Librarians Group
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Jewish Book Review
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— last activity Jul 16, 2026 01:59PM
A group for people who want to review and discuss Jewish books.
Jewish Book Club
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For those who share an interest in reading and discussing Jewish books of all sorts. The basic requirement for the books is that they have a Jewish th ...more