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Alison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Alison Gadsby’s Followers (14)
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Alison Gadsby
Goodreads Author
Born
Canada
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
January 2020
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/alison_gadsby
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Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive
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published
2026
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2 editions
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"This is a collection of excellent stories and an excellent collection as well.
The stories themselves are a poignant look at how modernity leaves us isolated, lonely, and often struggling to find meaning in our lives. Largely centres on familial rela" Read more of this review » |
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"A solid collection of short stories mostly dealing with child abuse and a running undercurrent of swimming.
A lot of the later short stories become linked to the earlier ones and (maybe an unpopular opinion) but I disliked this and wished they had bee" Read more of this review » |
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"What does an activist owe to her loved ones as compared with her righteous cause? Should compromise ever be considered when the future of the planet is at stake? And how can love survive in a family warped by sudden renunciation and long absence? The"
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| Death is a dark cloud above the stories in Leila Marshy’s collection, MY THIEVERY OF THE PEOPLE. Appearing as a woman in a red coat; in the glint of a sword under circus lights; at a honey farm; in the rivers that run alongside stolen land; in the At ...more | |
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There is so much of this book that cannot be spoken about because the author withholds in a symphony that builds so beautifully toward an unveiling of truth and memory, of the truth that lands as softly as if we'd known it all along. We follow Rufous ...more |
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How does a man live burdened by all the secrets that follow him “like a dark shadow, always there, a black menacing shape”? Larkin Ryan Beattie is a kid when he realizes that there’s something about his insides that don’t match his outsides, there’s s ...more |
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| An emotional sorrow-filled story of grief, love, religion, sisterhood, interfaith marriage, acquired body difference and family, with philosophical smatterings of colonization, atheism and climate change (“There's a fifty percent chance that we're al ...more | |
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| When the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate predictably shifts and the tsunamis swell, and the landslides and the floods shift everything and everyone from one place to another, what do we do with ourselves? What happens to us when an earthquake shakes the ...more | |