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Susan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Susan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Susan Fadellin
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I read something both interesting and unsettling today:
Read more of this blog post »There are, no doubt, lessons here for the contemporary reader. The changing character of the native population, brought about through unremarked pressures on porous borders; the creation of an increasingly unwieldy and rigid bureaucracy, whose own survival becomes its overriding goal; the despising of the military and the avoidance of its s
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I reread this after many years on my way home from a trip to Scotland because my first experience of Scotland was from reading Iain Banks - both his fiction and science fiction. So many SF books show their age after a couple of decades but this story
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“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“There is a moment between waking and sleeping and between sleeping and waking when the mind seems to be in many places at once, when memories mingle with dreams, when what has been and what is yet to be exist side by side, and when the mind slips free of time and personality to wander in strange halls where the familiar and the strange become indistinguishable and ghosts and visions walk hand in hand. Aelis tumbled toward sleep and fell into this place, to the mind's borderlands, where magic is.”
― Fenrir
― Fenrir
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Letters of Ted Hughes
― Letters of Ted Hughes
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I read both the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I liked the stories, but not the writing, which I felt was condescen..."Yeah, I agree. Though I thought the story for Angels and Demons was better than the Da Vinci Code. And well, that's the problem with writer's and their egos... I like when they explain stuff but not when the stuff they are explaining a kindergartener should know. ;)
Cottageunderhill wrote: "I thought you didn't read the "Da Vinci Code"..."I read both the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I liked the stories, but not the writing, which I felt was condescending and pedantic :) Dan Brown wastes too much time telling the reader how smart he is.
I thought you didn't read the "Da Vinci Code"...
