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Martin’s 2024 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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Influences
Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Mary Roach, Elmore Leonard, Atul Gawan
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Member Since
June 2011
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I'm in The Guinness Book!
When I was a wee little lad, I was enamored with running - particularly the long-distance variety (and Terry Fox and Grete Waitz and Alberto Salazar and Yiannis Kouros) - and with reading - particularly the Guinness Book of World Records (and Encyclopedia Brown and Baseball Digest and Stephen King and Dean Koontz) - and with writing (anything).
When I was no longer wee, at about 10 years old, I set Read more of this blog post »
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Martin
voted for
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
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Readers' Favorite Horror
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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"The Dad Jokes Haggadah is exactly what it promises: a light, funny, pun-filled guide through the traditional Passover seder. It keeps every core element the Four Questions, the Plagues, Dayenu, the Four Children but explains them in a way that’s warm"
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Martin
voted for
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
as
Readers' Favorite History & Biography
in the
Opening Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Martin
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Elaine Stock's review
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Cursing the Darkness: A Novel about Loss and Recovery (New Jewish Fiction):
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| A mesmerizing mezmerational mesmerization. Honestly, I was transfixed, bewtiched, enraptured. No, I'm not using a thesaurus, I'm just trying to relay to you the emotion-riddled dreamstate roller-coaster I was taken on when reading this wunderkind mas ...more | |
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| This weighty, thoughtful, deep-reaching book is entertainingly bold. The author lays out a thesis that raises one eyebrow high, but he then executes with a marvelous break-down and analysis of well-curated passages that serve his greater point, which ...more | |
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| Do you want your heart to break into a million little splinters? Do you want your hope for a greener earth to be dashed and bashed into the ground with a sledgehammer? Do you want your faith in humanity to be ground into dust? Do you want your faith ...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
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