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Carrie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Carrie Birde
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March 2024
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A Small Tale of Uncommon Grace
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Fabulist… … sensualist, sorceress of prose. Tanith Lee coaxes order from chaos & weaves not only worlds, but whole mythologies out of word & image & sheer, brilliant imagining. Her 1978 “Night’s Master – Tales from the Flat Earth: Book One” is a colle ...more |
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Taut... Born in 1900 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Sandor Marai gained literary fame there in the 1930s. Though he survived WWII, Communist persecution that followed forced him to flee Hungary in 1948. His novel, “Embers” (written in 1941 and transl ...more |
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Captivating… Sarah Arthur confesses admiration for C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien, and her affection shines through the pages of her 2024 novel “Once a Queen”. Arthur has not only written a spell-binding story in which her young heroine, Eva, reconnects ...more |
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Enchanting… When Robert Macfarlane learned the Oxford University Press had dropped scores of nature-themed words from its pages & replaced them with those more technologically themed, he did what we hope any motivated creative might do to rectify an o ...more |
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Poetical… When L.M.Montgomery began “Anne of Green Gables” in 1907, she later reflected that she “did not for a moment dream” the book would bring the fame & success she had dreamed of, & that this freedom from “writing up to any particular reputation ...more |
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Unsettling… Shirley Jackson enjoyed placing extreme personalities in extreme situations. Her 1958 novella, “The Sundial”, uncomfortably settles three generations of the wealthy Halloran family – all at odds with one another – in a palatial home. Openi ...more |
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Chilling… Stephen King cites Henry James’ 1898 gothic horror “The Turn of the Screw” as one of two “most important” ghost stories, for good reason. James wrote the novella while experiencing great personal loss. This is reflected in the melancholic at ...more |
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Charming… Anyone who’s ever shared the companionship of a small dog knows their tendency toward outsized opinions. Rosco, the pint-sized chihuahua-mix protagonist of Tara Tomczyk’s 2025 new children’s book “Oh No Rosco!”, gleefully demonstrates this w ...more |
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| This is a book that I return to again and again. A brilliant fable that answers the questions of who we are, what we want, and how we find it. A tale that encourages us to follow our personal legend and pay heed to the Soul of the World. | |
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
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“So if you wake up with the sunshine,
and all your dreams are still as new,
and happiness is what you need so bad,
the answer lies with-in you.”
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and all your dreams are still as new,
and happiness is what you need so bad,
the answer lies with-in you.”
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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
