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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Days after pub date
One bookstore agent, when I was trying to set up a reading date for my new novel, Some Assembly Required, told me that he considers the competition for the readings to be Netflix. So I had better be able to contact and bring to the reading my own audience (whom I presume would otherwise be watching Netflix). I'm still processing this: me and my social media skills versus Netflix and their skills.
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This book sings a kind of counterpoint to Melville's Moby-Dick. It has resonances and reflections of the original but takes place now with a Melville scholar and a young man who found the original manuscript for MD as tellers of the tale who take tur
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| Susan Coventry’s beautiful novel, Till Taught by Pain, is a masterful and moving account of late 19th early 20th century medicine wrapped in an exquisite love story. She has the medical knowhow and accuracy of Abraham Verghese in Cutting for Stone an ...more | |
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| Andrew Furman has written in his novel, The World That We Are, an extraordinary pair of journeys from two different times: Thoreau’s 19th century America, and David Herzog’s 21st century Maine. The stories are exquisitely interwoven in chapters that ...more | |
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| Hang onto your time-traveling hats. This book is an intelligent, carefully thought-out, and discursive trip into religion and quantum physics. It has echoes of many of today's issues. Alistair Conwell has found the sweet spot between paradox and trut ...more | |
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| Steven Mayfield in Treasure of the Blue Whale has created a world rich in possibilities, love and love lost, expectations and adventure in his fictional town of Tesoro, California. This novel is funny and compelling and full of the joy of human poten ...more | |
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The emotional language of father and daughter, the author's way of honoring the essentials of family, these were part of what grabbed me in this page-turner of a book. It is the story and language that are the genius of this work of fiction, that en ...more |
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