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Margaret’s 2025 Year in Books

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Margaret Adams has read 14 of 75 books.

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Margaret Adams

Goodreads Author

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in Bangor, Maine, The United States

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Short story author. Essayist. Book-binger. The first step to recovery is probably not Goodreads.

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Year in Reading – 2025

Selected 2025 Reading:

Fiction Novels/Novellas

Tomorrow They Won’t Dare To Murder Us by Joseph AndrasOn the Clock by Claire BaglinThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesIn a Distant Valley by Shannon BowringThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane BradleyHeadshot by Rita BullwinklePiranesi by Susanna ClarkeMrs. Bridge by Evan S. ConnellOur Long Marvelous Dying by Anna DeForestThe Last Samurai by Helen De Read more of this blog post »

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Margaret Adams’s books

Average rating: 4.61 · 28 ratings · 1 review · 8 distinct works

	The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior by Rose Weitz, Samantha Kwan, Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology by Rilla Askew (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nathan Leslie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Delmarva Review, Vol. 3 by Gwen Florio (Goodreads Author), Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Delmarva Review, Vol. 6 by Wilson Wyatt (Editor), Ru Freeman, Anne Colwell it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Delmarva Review, Vol. 4 by Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author), Iain S. Baird, Kate Blackwell it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pacifica Literary Review (Issue 12) by Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author), Phillip Sterling, Alex Gallo-Brown (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pinch Journal by Courtney Miller Santo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Courtney Craggett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Mesa Review, Issue 38 by Hayley Peterson (Editor), Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nicole Cuffy (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Margaret’s Quotes

“How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know.”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho

tags: acceptance-of-others, humanity, inspirational, love

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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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“ 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.' ”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

tags: compromise, intimacy, lexicon, privacy, vulnerability

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“Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

tags: lgbtq, love, women

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“I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

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