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Isla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Isla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Isla McKetta
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July 2011
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https://www.goodreads.com/isla_mcketta
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All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood
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Clear Out the Static in Your Attic
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Soul's Road: A Fiction Collection
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Polska, 1994
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What Doesn't Kill Her: Women's Stories of Resilience
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Pitkin Review, Spring 2010
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The Books I’m Carrying into 2026
New Year, new me, right? Except that reading is the fundamental way I relate to the world, so it’s always books, and in 2026 I’m working on unknotting some of the same obsessions as last year (and the year before, and, let’s be honest, always). Three books opened something for me in the past few weeks that I think will take me deeper and more meaningfully into understanding and living the life I w
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| This is a book I had to read twice to appreciate. The first time I got mired in the details and couldn't finish. This time I saw the artfulness of the quotidian sections and how that set me up for the rending of the war. It's an important book for ri ...more | |
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The Possession of Alba Díaz
by Isabel Cañas (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Horror |
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| My 10yo really wanted me to read this book, and I can see why (I think? unless he's planning a life of crime I don't know about). It's well-paced, full of tension and characters who are genuinely wrestling with ethical dilemmas. ...more | |
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This book was written in a very different time for a very different audience than me. I didn't find it scary, I didn't find it funny, I didn't find it sexy. You can find it at my local Little Free Library if you think you might feel differently. Updat ...more |
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“And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after the other, had followed this path.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
“To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means… I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
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“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook
― Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”
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Icess wrote: "Can't wait for the book to come out! Congrats friend. Onward and upward!"Thanks, Icess! So excited!!!
Can't wait for the book to come out! Congrats friend. Onward and upward!
Helen wrote: "When will you read all the books on your list? Some how I know you will eventually - you are amazing there girl. I'm such a slow reader - it takes me long hours to finish books. My list is overw..."You're a doll, Helen! I am a very fast reader (sometimes, on a great day, I can read three shortish books), but I never remember ANYTHING. I envy slow readers who absorb and enjoy. My process is more of a driving obsession. Some books, like those on my physical to read shelf, will eventually be dispensed with. Others will serve as reminders of things I meant to think about. And the rest will haunt me until I read them and check them off the list.
When will you read all the books on your list? Some how I know you will eventually - you are amazing there girl. I'm such a slow reader - it takes me long hours to finish books. My list is overwhelming for me. You rock girl.
