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Stephan’s 2025 Year in Books
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A very fine historical fiction novel about Thomas Cromwell. I look forward to the next one. It's star rating may have been hurt by my reading this book immediately after "Wolf Hall," which was probably a bit better, and meant too much time for me stu
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| The Ministry of Time has everything: time travel, romance, sci-fi, history, Arctic exploration, espionage, and mystery. And it takes some time to get that all up and moving, which is why the first half or two-thirds of the novel pokes along at a mild ...more | |
"I liked this book, mostly because I worked with Kup for a few years in the 1990s as a copy editor at the Sun-Times - by which time he was not bothering to learn any of our names, calling all men "buddy" and all women "honey." I did not love the book "
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I've been seeing vague references to people hating this book — and the ending — so I love the detailed blow-by-blow. And scathing book reviews are alw
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"Loathed it. Should have bailed.
I hated the lazy world-building. What religion is this supposed to be? Was the author raised Catholic-ish, and wrote this book under the assumption that Mormons and/or evangelicals have priests and bless themselves? It" Read more of this review » |
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| Hell of a Book is propulsive and illuminating and provocative. It is a book inside a book about a book. It jumps and weaves and pivots willy-nilly between the literal and the figurative and the metafictional, and in the process, reveals profound insi ...more | |
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| The story here might deserve 3 or 3.5 stars, I wouldn't know. I'm giving it a 2 because of poor series management. Chronologically, this book takes place before #5, and I spent a good deal of the book confused. I also falsely assumed this was a deep ...more | |
"This was an odd one! I'm guessing that it won't appeal to people who aren't adjuncts or at some similar gig economy job. I liked it, even though it wasn't a pleasant read.
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“Arabia—where the greatest horses in the world were bred!”
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“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”
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