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Jim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Once A Welder
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Twenty-Four Years to Boston: My Journey From the Vegetable Aisle to Boylston Street
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| One Hundred Years of Solitude required a tremendous amount of stamina and concentration for me to read. If not for Gabriel Marquez’s fantastical descriptions, captivating characters and mesmerizing prose, it would have been difficult to finish. Follo ...more | |
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| Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers begins as a Vietnam War story that transforms into a study of culture and counterculture of the 1960-70s. Protagonist John Converse is a writer who travels to Vietnam seeking a story and over the course of one year is draw ...more | |
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| You gotta love a horror author who introduces his story with a W.S. Merwin poem, and Bill Donahue doesn’t let the reader down. Donahue is a master at crafting compelling characters and quirky Martin Avec-Georges with his boatload of baggage and perky ...more | |
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| With a backdrop of boxing gyms, dive bars and fleabag hotels, and characters who are fighters, trainers and hangers-on, Gardner’s story is about love, life, dreams and broken dreams. Ernie Mungar, young and unsure of himself trying to find his way up ...more | |
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| A remarkable story of a courage, shrewdness, and faith embodied by a Dutch family who was part of the resistance against the Nazi occupation during World War II. Casper Ten Boom was patriarch of the family, a master watchmaker in Haarlem on the outsk ...more | |
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| Chris Bauer does it again. He begins with a flamethrower setting a mummer string band ablaze and never lets up. It would be hard to find a more memorable protagonist than Counsel Fungo, female bounty hunter, retired state police officer, with two att ...more | |
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| The Year of Magical Thinking is sad, tragic, amazing, incisive, and at times, satirical. Only Didion could write with such courage and candor about the deaths of her husband (you sit down to dinner and your life changes forever) and daughter, who had ...more | |
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| When the author of more than one hundred works of fiction, with literary awards that include the National Book Award and the O. Henry, writes a book on boxing, there is no way to ignore it. This concise, prying, unusual, and at times philosophical, s ...more | |
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| Think of the most vile human beings you have ever come across and you’ve found the model citizens that make up Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. Cornelius Suttree slowly materializes over hundreds of pages in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River s ...more | |
