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Jasper’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jasper’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jasper Bark
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Rejection Letters - How to Write and Respond to Them
Greetings gentle reader, and welcome to my first Goodreads blog. It's reprinted from my regular column over on the excellent This Is Horror site. As some of you may have missed it first time around I think it's worth a rerun. As I'm a horror author it begins with a horror story. A real life horror story.
A good friend of mine, with an especially bad history of boyfriends, once told me a tale about Read more of this blog post »
A good friend of mine, with an especially bad history of boyfriends, once told me a tale about Read more of this blog post »
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (Tom Brown, #1):
"Surprisingly compelling. One of a few books where shifting tense works as for example the classic School Match where Tom makes his stalwart and spirited debut. On a deeper level explains a lot about the British Empire, stiff upper lip, rugger, old ch"
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"“They were in a ragged square, back to back on the hilltop, and even as we watched I saw the glitter of bayonets as they levelled their pieces, and a thin volley crashed out across the valley. The Afghans yelled louder than ever, and gave back, but t"
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"Years ago I read Once by Herbert, which I didn't particularly care for and it sort of turned me off the author. Now I've decided to give Herbert a second chance with Moon and I'm so glad I did, cause this was a very good book. At its heart it was a m"
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"Cringey sex scenes aside, I’ve had to upgrade this to five stars from four because I had a bloody great time reading this! Honestly, I couldn’t put it down, finishing it in pretty much a day.
I read this over thirty years ago and I must admit I didn’" Read more of this review » |
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Michael, this is a great question. As you rightly pointed out in your review, there is a lot of eye symbolism in the novel, it's a purposeful motif. While I don't believe the author's opinion is ever the last word on something, I have been pronouncin
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Thanks for clearing that up. I learned your answer yesterday when I heard you pronounce her name in a video. Cheers!
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Michael, thanks for the kind words so far and I'm very pleased you've picked up on the imagery and the repeated eye motif. I don't think the author's
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| This was the book that got me into horror at the tender age of 11. I hadn't seen the film so the ending totally shocked me. I have never been the same since! ...more | |
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| Crime Detective M...: Reading Challenge 2015 A-Z by author | 31 | 118 | Sep 20, 2015 05:38PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : A-Z challenge Q/X/Z | 14 | 32 | Jan 23, 2020 02:42PM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: What did you read in ~~ July 2021 | 42 | 26 | Aug 08, 2021 08:51PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Horror Tag! | 1781 | 1165 | Nov 23, 2025 02:54AM |
“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.”
― Armageddon in Retrospect
― Armageddon in Retrospect
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
― The Complete Fairy Tales
― The Complete Fairy Tales
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
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Pat wrote: "Cheers Jasper for the friend request. Here's to reading some more great horrors in 2016!"Hey Pat, only just seen your message, so forgive me writing back four years later, but 2016 was a good reading year for me, and I wrote a few books too. Hope you are well and still voraciously consuming horror books.
Kayleigh wrote: "Hi Jasper, I'm sorry I haven't replied to your message, you must think me so rude! Every time I try to open it, it for some reason keeps circling me around to the log in page. Thank you for accepti..."Hey Kayleigh, don't think you the lest bit rude. Goodreads can sometimes be alarmingly elliptical to use, though it's not as user unfriendly as LinkedIn. Great to be in touch here and I look forward to our book discussions too.
Williwaw wrote: "Hey Jasper:That book list of yours has to be some kind of record-breaking statistic, worthy of an entry in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
Cheers!"
It would seem to suggest I'm completely illiterate wouldn't it.
Hey Jasper:That book list of yours has to be some kind of record-breaking statistic, worthy of an entry in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
Cheers!
Feb 13, 2026 01:30PM · flag