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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
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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 »
Martin’s Recent Updates
"Martin Bodek wrote The Coronavirus Haggadah in the days before Passover 2020, which is either an act of comic genius or sheer pandemic-fueled madness. Probably both.
The conceit is simple and perfect: the traditional Haggadah, that ancient text Jews h" Read more of this review » |
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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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Stephen King has a five-nines success rate when making book recommendations. But if his name is on the cover, well then, that would bring that metric up to 100%, wouldn't it? I haven't read much crime fiction of late, because when the standard is Elmor ...more |
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation:
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World:
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Mr. Miodownik writes interesting books about interesting materials, with an interesting framework, and wedges in all kinds of interesting bits of information and peppers in interesting anecdotes. I find all of it interesting, as you may have surmised, ...more |
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I say this about many authors whose careers I chart, and whose works I read completely: they get better. Dave Cowen has gotten sharper, more crackling, and wittier. This is the height of his powers, and he's in full command. He also tends to venture in ...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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