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Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nicholas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Nicholas Karpuk
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September 2008
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https://www.goodreads.com/nicholasmerlinkarpuk
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The Bane of Yoto
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2012
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In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words
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2011
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Sideshow Fables (#1)
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2009
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2010
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I normally roll my eyes at people who complain about how Goodreads doesn't let you give partial stars for ratings, and most of the time I am correct. But in this case if there was ever a half-credit book, it's The God and the Gumiho. There are some o ...more |
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I know that this probably isn't the author's fault, and people do what they can for publicity in a difficult market, but I just need to say this: Serpent & Dove isn't romantasy. I enjoyed the book, it's not a knock on it in particular, and I'm sure ap ...more |
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| America is a nation rife with suckers, marks, and rubes. Maybe the founding emphasis on greed sold as "freedom" set us up for a bad time, as indicated by every MLM seducing us on the idea that we can "be our own boss" like that's an easy or something ...more | |
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| Swordheart subverts two things that are exhaustively common in the fantasy space. The protagonist is a widowed woman entering her middle age, so we're avoiding the epic fantasy default of the main character being young, dumb, and the chosen one. And ...more | |
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| There's an issue with horror I often have, especially with cosmic horror, of the author being just an absolute misanthrope. Some people working in this space have an attitude like their calmly stepping on bugs. It seems like the joy there is primaril ...more | |
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Sometimes it can be rough working backwards in an author's body of work. I started off with Novik reading the Scholomance trilogy, which ended up being one of my favorite modern fantasy series. I went on to read some of her Napoleonic dragon books, a ...more |
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This was a book I read on a whim because I happened to see it on the library's recommendation display. And as someone who'd recently read the Broken Earth trilogy, this book gave me a bit of whiplash. Does it still have moments of darkness and intere ...more |
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There's a few things I've read out of Japan that give me the same sort of feeling Strange Pictures did. It's easiest to highlight by looking at the differences between two successful books working off the same formula. Hunger Games was called a rip-of ...more |
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| There's a kind of funny issue with the subgenre of cozy fantasy that while not bothersome to me personally, is always noticeable. I think it would honestly be easier for a person who reads and writes cozy books to write than a person who reads and wr ...more | |
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
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Space Wizards Book Club
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Space Wizards: A Denver Book Club Adventure, is a monthly book club discussing newer Science Fiction and Fantasy novels. We meet once a month on the t ...more
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Oct 07, 2013 07:55PM
Sassy, huh? lol Thanks for the invite! :)
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Colin wrote: "Hey, Nick, have you read Stitches? I saw it at King Soopers (of all places) the other night, saw the fancy medal on the cover, enjoyed a bit of it, and wondered what you thought. Bobby gave it a go..."No, but it's now on my wishlist.
Hey, Nick, have you read Stitches? I saw it at King Soopers (of all places) the other night, saw the fancy medal on the cover, enjoyed a bit of it, and wondered what you thought. Bobby gave it a good review,
Glad you made it here, mate. Beware, Goodreads is the land where everyone insists on mostly four- and five-star ratings. I have a hard time convincing people that a three-star rating is actually a recommended book. Most people won't read your reviews, which is a shame, because you've got a good mind and it translates to your criticism. So it is. I still like reviewing books. It takes a different level of thinking.
