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Gilbert’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Gilbert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
This is easily the best book in the new Hardy Boys Adventures series thus far. In the previous novel, Frank and Joe sifted through the clues to discover who was behind the disappearance of two teenagers riding G-Force, the star attraction of the amusement park, Fun Land. They identified the villains and got the police to lock them up. So how is it that a third
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| Leave it to Rick Gualtieri to find a new niche in the vampire genre. He seems to have noticed that vampires in books and cinema are either incredibly good looking or utterly monstrous. So he decided to make a vampire out of someone completely ordinar ...more | |
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| This is what a Great Courses book is supposed to be. Rather than get bogged down in faith stories as so many historical books looking at the bible do, Halvorson-Taylor jumps right into the problems of discerning where and how the books of the Old Tes ...more | |
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| This Great Courses book uses twenty-four lectures to drive home the point that the earth is a very dangerous place and its weather systems are capable of causing tremendous harm. He talks about lightning and thunderstorms, hurricanes, snow and blizza ...more | |
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| Cults are something that seem both far away and dangerous in the sense that a lion in the zoo is dangerous—that is to say, not going to be a problem for most people. Occasionally we hear of tragedy—sometimes great tragedy—involving them. The Manson f ...more | |
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| A long running plot line regarding whether or not the town of Whitehorse will be able to remain independent is brought to a close in this novel in a way that I found satisfying. Its survival ultimately depends on another of Jon's crazy and ridiculous ...more | |
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| At the end of the last novel, John left the human town of Whitehorse to live on his own after what he viewed as a betrayal by his friends. At the start of this book, John has been going it alone, leveling up with a minimum of contact with human socie ...more | |
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| This is a LitRPG which is heavy on the character development and storyline, just the way I like it. Set in Canada, the earth is absorbed into the "system" by the Galactic Council, an alien civilization that has decided to make earth a dungeon world t ...more | |
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| Marv (Code Name Gold Leader) is back, still looking for aliens, and still being right about the existence of aliens even though just about everyone still thinks he’s a conspiracy nut. The sad thing is that that’s true even of his friends who know bet ...more | |
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| Kay really enjoys finding ways to explore the moral codes in war that prevent atrocities from happening. He usually does this by putting his characters into the atrocity and that's the heart of this story. What do you do when the soldiers you are dep ...more | |
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| This Great Courses work brings you through the long and complex history of Japan. If you have any interest in the subject this is a great place to start. Great Courses books are broken down into roughly 30 minute lectures which makes the whole histor ...more | |
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| Written Gems: At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs | 35 | 6 | Aug 20, 2024 06:53AM |
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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