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Alison’s 2025 Year in Books
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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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2026
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2 editions
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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 | |
"My fingers are still blistered from these high-octane stories featuring female rage, desire and trauma. There is a strong theme of swimming throughout the stories - many characters are competitive swimmers, or simply love to swim. While you might exp"
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| This novel opens and closes with Yonatan, the caretaker at Camp Burntshore, a place that is open to kids of all cultural backgrounds. He introduces us to the special love of the place, a love shared by everyone, including the protagonist Ruby (althou ...more | |
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“I just want to breathe without feeling like I’m stealing air.” “Time moves differently when you're trapped between two places—here and there, now and before.” This last quote from “Giants” will stay with me for as long as the story does – forever. A ...more |
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| This novel opens and closes with Yonatan, the caretaker at Camp Burntshore, a place that is open to kids of all cultural backgrounds. He introduces us to the special love of the place, a love shared by everyone, including the protagonist Ruby (althou ...more | |
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
