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Update, Jan. 7, 2026: Reading again as part of Simon Haisell's Wolf Crawl slow read.This was a very entertaining book, envisioning with great detail a fascinating time in English history. ...more "
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"A book about how we establish identity in relation to literature and other arts. Gabbert deals with criticism but how it moves into the personal.
A personal criticism that treats the critic’s experiences, emotions, and intellectual habits as legitimat" Read more of this review » |
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The Dream Hotel
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"My first foray into the Knausgard universe. I did enjoy the novel, reading through it rather rapidly. I might put KOK into a category that includes Murakami and maybe even Austen: deceptively straightforward prose that can mask a very precise elucida"
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Stephan Benzkofer
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Cerealflakes's review
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Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America:
"I have always been curious how an obvious scam like MLMs stay in business. This book answered that question and then some. This book went into more detail than I needed, but the author did a good job keeping it interesting and used one Mary Kay rep’s"
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Updated Feb. 11 after book club discussion. As the book cover indicates, In the Distance flips the script on the traditional western. The hero here is beaten, scarred (and scared), hollowed out. At times literally voiceless. He is flotsam and jetsam o ...more |
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| Here are nine of the most engrossing short stories, each one as vivid and surprising as the last. If there's a theme, and I don't know that one is intended, it is how at the cusp of major advances in science, society and people are at their most vuln ...more | |
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Stephan Benzkofer
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Jamie’s review
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Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
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"I was enjoying this book thoroughly; it is smart and funny and the characters are a delight. And then, alas, it tripped my Implausiblometer. I'm glad I read it and I will probably read more of the Jackson Brodie series, but I am just going to quibble"
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“Alexander Ramsay, known to his friends back home in New York City as Alec,”
― The Black Stallion
― The Black Stallion
“Arabia—where the greatest horses in the world were bred!”
― The Black Stallion
― The Black Stallion
“Its hold was loaded with coffee, rice, tea, oil seeds and jute. Black smoke poured from its one stack, darkening the hot cloudless sky. Alexander”
― The Black Stallion
― The Black Stallion
