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Roger’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Roger’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Roger DeBlanck’s Followers (148)
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Roger DeBlanck
Goodreads Author
Born
in Las Vegas, NV, The United States
March 19
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
January 2012
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The Sky Buries All Sorrow
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2013
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5 editions
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The Ramos Brothers Trust Castro and Kennedy
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2011
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7 editions
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The Destruction of Silence
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2016
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5 editions
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Prayers from the Far Quarter
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2020
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5 editions
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The Peacemaker Overcomes the Hatemaker
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2022
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5 editions
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Empire of the Mind
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2014
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2 editions
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The Hummingbird Diary
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Three Must-See Movies
Over the last year, three films have captivated me to the point where I’ve lost track how many times I’ve watched each of them. The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown ranked among the most talked about and honored films during the 2025 award season, and One Battle After Another has gathered tremendous praise and buzz while already earning plenty of awards before the 2026 Oscars on March 15.
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| As a public services librarian myself for nearly thirty years, the title of Smith’s collection drew my immediate attention. I had hoped for a series of inspiring and enlightening stories about the public library. Instead, the volume was unengaging an ...more | |
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| Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historical scholars and his vital new work Chain of Ideas investigates how “great replacement theory” (GRT) has convinced large numbers of whites that Black and Brown people and anyone associated with Islam ...more | |
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| McConigley’s debut collection offers a mixed bag of quality from great to average stories. After an excellent micro-story with its perfect balance of sadness and humor to start off the book, the two best pieces come next: the title story “Cowboys and ...more | |
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| Einstein liked to proclaim that his only talent was curiosity and allowing his imagination to drive visions for how the beauty and harmony of the universe revealed itself. From an early age, he was fascinated by such phenomena as the force that moved ...more | |
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| When fifteen-year-old István and his mother move to a new town in Hungary, István has trouble adjusting and making friends at school. The alienation he experiences ruptures when an older woman seduces him and a tragic accident ensues. Years later, af ...more | |
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| After his unforgettable performance in Dallas Buyers Club, which deservedly earned him a best actor Oscar, I began to take McConaughey more seriously as a movie star who truly cares about his art and the art of cinema. Although I haven’t read his hig ...more | |
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| The world rages at war in 1941, but countries like Iran seek neutrality. That is the hope until the Soviets occupy the northern half of the country and the British take over the south. The Allied strategy wants to prevent the Germans from gaining con ...more | |
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| Since I was a kid playing little league, Ted Williams has been one of my heroes. The same as countless baseball fans generation after generation, my reverence for “The Kid” rests on his improbable records, including his unmatched season of batting .4 ...more | |
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| Cyrus Shams is a recovering drug and alcohol addict. Since his childhood, he’s never acclimated to America as an Iranian immigrant. His mother died tragically when the US military shot down the plane she was on in the Persian Gulf. His father’s grief ...more | |
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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Hi Roger,Thanks for the add! Nice to make your virtual acquaintance.
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Jan
Mar 15, 2021 04:29PM · flag