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John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
John Chrostek’s Followers (11)
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John Chrostek
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October 2022
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Boxcutters
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Feast of the Pale Leviathan
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"Probably more a 3.75. Fascinating concept. A little light on character description to the point that I was having a hard time telling the difference between some of them.
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| Ivy Grimes has released a truly phenomenal piece of writing with The Cellar Below the Cellar, creating a soft Southern Gothic apocalypse digging its fingers into the raw, rich dirt of life. A fairy tale for our fallen age, with teeth & heart to spare ...more | |
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"The world ends, we end. A great mix of apocalyptic fiction and folklore-style storytelling. The first part is more about the end of the world, the second part goes elsewhere. The characters are iconic in the Scott McCloud sense of the word, which I t"
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"Ivy Grimes has a one-of-a-kind voice and is at her best here! A wonderfully strange and surreal coming-of-age story of an already-grown woman who still needs to come into her own. The unique take on an apocalyptic setting and the lively cast of chara"
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"Lu is clearly brilliant.
'Daydreamers' is like a dodecahedral Rubik's cube where whose cells are intricately painted. Reading the book is like turning the wheels of this puzzle. It's all very beautiful, and there appears to be some solution or resolu" Read more of this review » |
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| Ivy Grimes has released a truly phenomenal piece of writing with The Cellar Below the Cellar, creating a soft Southern Gothic apocalypse digging its fingers into the raw, rich dirt of life. A fairy tale for our fallen age, with teeth & heart to spare ...more | |
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“If I remember correctly writers usually find some excuse for their books, although why one should excuse oneself for having such a quiet and peaceful occupation I really don't know. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
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“I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.”
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| A lovely, bittersweet story of two sad Southern teens whose lives intertwined with two long-lived, deeply aware tortoises. The book manages to feel long with a short run time, and constantly expands its scope while never losing full sight of its star ...more | |
“I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
― The Hearing Trumpet
“If I remember correctly writers usually find some excuse for their books, although why one should excuse oneself for having such a quiet and peaceful occupation I really don't know. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
― The Hearing Trumpet
