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Gary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gary Gocek
Goodreads Author
Born
Syracuse, NY, The United States
Website
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Genre
Influences
E. B. White
Member Since
August 2025
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Progressive Christianity: Caterpillar to Butterfly
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The Perils of Perry Portly: North Coast Parody and Satire, Book 1
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Gary Gocek
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Are Authors Making Their Ebooks DRM Free On Amazon?
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I have a Christian non-fiction title on Kindle and paperback, and a secular humor/satire title on Kindle only. (Both Kindle Unlimited.) Both DRM.
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From AI Developer to Novelist: Why I Wrote About My Debut Novel
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Tim, it sounds like the only person or thing you trust is yourself. Fair enough, but self-editing is not a good plan. You say that "young" authors use
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Welcome to Christian Fiction Devourers
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Erika wrote: "I left the Catholic Church last year and am hoping to get baptized in my current church..."
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5 Star Rating - Is It Given Out Too Often?
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Reviews do not have to be subjective. There is a "craft" of writing, and it can be taught, objectively. If the grammar is bad, and if some sentences m
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Really realistic contemporary? (Cell phones)
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My impression of literary fiction is that most "contemporary" novels could have taken place almost any time since about the 1970s. Today, 2026, what i
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I have only read the beginning of the book available on the Amazon marketplace. I did not read the whole book, and I did not purchase it or download via KU. The title and description of the book suggest that the author will dissect modern culture and ...more |
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| I read only the first page (online via the Amazon book description). The first sentence promises nothing. Then the character starts a cool bath--and puts her feet into steaming water. It seems incomprehensible that there could be 355 pages of this dr ...more | |
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“The last bug isn't fixed until the last user is dead. (1980-ish)”
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