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Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
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Barbara Sibbald
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Red Deer, Canada
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Influences
Author:Hilary Mantel
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June 2011
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The Museum of Possibilities
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Almost English
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The Book of Love: Guidance in Affairs of the Heart
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Regarding Wanda
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2010
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Don't Touch That Keyboard! until you've read this book: How to Prevent Repetitive Strain Injury
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1998
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Almost English : A Novel
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Barbara’s Recent Updates
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| A retelling of part of the Old English poem "Beowulf" from the point of view of Grendel. This man-monster who devours humans (not overtly grisly in its depiction, as he has a tendency to gobble) but also has a philosophical side (hello Sartre) as he ...more | |
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| I avoid scary movies and only read classic horror (e.g., Frankenstein and Dracula) in broad daylight, so what the heck.... Okay, I didn't know, but I soon suspected as much when I felt the goosebumps. I could have quit, but oh, I was hooked. Dr. Fara ...more | |
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I've read dozens of eco dystopias in recent years, searching for what, I'm not sure. Validation of my own fears. Glimpses of how people might cope (or not) - a sort of literary crystal ball gazing. "Flight behavior" was recommended as a powerful addi ...more |
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| I copied many lines from "The woman upstairs" and so was excited to see this offering on my Libby/library account. Messud's second novel is an expanded coming-of-age narrative concerning both the youthful protagonist and the evolution of her entire f ...more | |
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| I adore the premise of time travel and this is one of the best I've read. Rather than the usual random time travel, the protagonist is pulled to past by a character whose life is repeatedly endangered. Only to discover that her existence depends on h ...more | |
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| What an incomparable treat to encounter this gorgeous collection of Susan's lyrical and engaging poetry spanning from 1996 (her first solo collection) up to 2009 (it was published in 2010). Varied, but accomplished and often visceral, many of these p ...more | |
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| Oh, Ian. I was so looking forward to reading Amsterdam. It has so many promising ingredients: news mongering at a prestigious daily, ethically loaded mercy-killing physicians, even a symphony in progress. Alas, my expectations were dashed by this pre ...more | |
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| A few pages in, I thought I was reading a YA novel. It was the writing more than anything, but perhaps it was meant to be, given that this is a coming-of-age story for Tomoko (12), her cousin Mina (11) and arguably Mina's handsome father (who shoulda ...more | |
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| This read like a play - well perhaps an opera given the depth of pathos - with an intriguing and flawed cast of characters (including poets and musicians), a deeply felt love story and a gruesome murder, all set in a fictional working-class community ...more | |
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| I'm eating my words now. After "Bellevue Square" I vowed not to continue reading Redhill's "triptych" of "Modern Ghosts." I didn't realize until I finished reading it, but "The Trial of Katterfelto" is the second in that series. Thank goodness I didn ...more | |
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
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Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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Time's ArrowThis book messed with my personal temperol norms: Between readings, I felt time begin backing up, and thought I would repeat or reveal afresh what came before. This is the story of how a life is formed, reformed and informed by life's pathos. It's a mystery of the highest order -- but in reverse. It could just be a gimmick, but in Amis' hands it decidedly is a lot more.
