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Thea’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Thea’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Thea Swanson’s Followers (14)
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Thea Swanson
Goodreads Author
Born
in Los Angeles, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Sarah Shun Lien Bynum, Aimee Bender, Virginia Woolf
Member Since
December 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/theaswanson
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Thea’s Recent Updates
"I ordered a used copy of this book, not from Amazon. I read someplace that if I love Tana French, McTiernan was my next stop. I nearly gave this novel 4 tars, which really is not fair. I did love her almost as much as French, for her characters, thei"
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"This was a slog. I avoided the book altogether for days at a time. Considerable cruelty, which authors may have assumed was edgy, some errors, something else . . . The sense that I am not the intended reader?
Not liking these much, though they are not" Read more of this review » |
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It's quite obvious to me why Jan is writing about it. We need to write and read about this pervasive, perennial, terrible topic every chance we get.
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"My private notes about this bio are "Haven't read it. Won't."
I understand from reviews that at least some readers and professional reviewers are relieved Prideaux exonerates Gauguin's egregious sexual relationships with girls and women because the ti" Read more of this review » |
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Thea Swanson
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Jan Priddy’s review
of
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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At times, there has been, for me, a right and a wrong time to read a book. This was the right time for you to read this book. Don't be so hard on your
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Thea Swanson
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8 other people
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Jan Priddy's review
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West:
"One thing leads to another. This is among the best works I have ever read. Solnit's weaving of personality and achievement and national character with how we understand time and place is masterful. I bought this book when it first came out because it"
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I appreciate your response, Jan. I am currently halfway through Allende's The House of the Spirits because I want to see how she employs magical reali
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“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
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