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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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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
entered a giveaway
Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love
by Michael Schur
20 copies
available, ends on
January 26, 2026
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| Anything ever recommended by Mr. Stephen King must be read, which is why I picked up this book. Unfortunately, Mr. King's recommendation GPA, as it were, is now 3.98, because this one doesn't measure up. The Chizmars surely are inventive storytellers ...more | |
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business:
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Walter Isaacson writes big books, magnificent books, stately books, useful, important, information-drenched books. It's clear he needed a break to take on something bite-size, albeit just as historically important as the rest of his oeuvre. Patriotism ...more |
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| My first foray into Gaiman (I'm reading the 1,001 kids book list, and he closes the show) and this one was a sure winner. A clever update, a propulsive mystery, a dose of magic and wonder, some spectacular illustrations, a satisfying array of twists, ...more | |
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Martin
voted for
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
as
Readers' Favorite Horror
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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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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