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Mike’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mike’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mike Robbins
Goodreads Author
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, Laurie Lee, Norman Lewis, George Orwell
Member Since
January 2014
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/mikerobbins
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Dog!
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2015
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4 editions
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The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places
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2014
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4 editions
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Three Seasons: Three Stories of England in the Eighties
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2014
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2 editions
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The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán
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2014
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The Anti-Austerity Anthology
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Such Little Accident: British Democracy and Its Enemies
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Even the Dead Are Coming
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2009
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3 editions
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On the Rim of the Sea: A Journey in Books
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Crops and Carbon: Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change
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2011
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2 editions
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Substack
Do join me on Substack; I'd love you to subscribe! It costs nothing and you'll get posts sent to your inbox. These are mostly short fiction at the moment. You won't be bombarded - I post about once a week.
https://mikerobbinswrites.substack.com/
https://mikerobbinswrites.substack.com/
Mike’s Recent Updates
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Mike Robbins
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"Never whistle at night, he whispered. Don't you know it attracts bad things? Bad spirits. Evil attaches itself to you.
Medina crafts an fine tale that invokes uncertainty along with slow, creeping dread when a paraplegic ghost-hunter finds he's unable" Read more of this review » |
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Mike Robbins
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“Nazis didn’t go by looks, they went by instructions. Göring had said: “It is I who decide who is a Jew!”
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“Those who can make people believe absurdities, can make people commit atrocities.”
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Mike Robbins
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Iona McCulloch's status update
Iona McCulloch
is 77% done with Animal Farm
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"Now the synopsis does have something right, I will be referring to some of the definitions again and again because they are absurdly funny. The author is right when they say, “It is an adventure you won’t forget.” I had a mind frack of a good time. K"
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Mike Robbins
added a status update: I'm now doing a lot of flash fiction - something that until recently I'd never done at all. There are now a number of pieces on my blog so if you like this type of fiction, do drop by to https://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com/ .
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Mike Robbins
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Reading the 20th Century
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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (October 2024)
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I read, and reviewed, this a couple of years ago. It does take persistence but I found it very rewarding in the end.
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Mike Robbins
rated a book it was amazing
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| Kevin Brennan’s Yesterday Road begins in northern California. An old man is picking blackberries by the side of the road. A passing driver stops, concerned that he is alone in the hot sun. Would he like a ride? But Jack is old and confused and cannot ...more | |
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| Literary Fiction ...: how much is too much | 117 | 43 | Sep 16, 2014 09:03AM | |
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142 | 107 | Oct 04, 2014 07:53AM | |
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122 | 80 | Jan 10, 2015 02:19PM | |
| Random Smiles: * Authors Corner | 3 | 13 | Aug 15, 2015 03:43PM | |
| Goodreads Authors...: Now looking to interview Authors promoting new books! | 164 | 1444 | Oct 26, 2015 10:05PM | |
| Review Group: * Group 87. Novella. Mod: Chance | 186 | 67 | Jan 26, 2016 06:47PM |
“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.”
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Become who you are!”
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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Michelle wrote: "Dark beer and dark chocolate go well with excellent reading. :)"And as I think I've said before, dried apricots go wonderfully with dark beer, provided it is not too bitter.
Nigeyb wrote: "Thanks for the A Time to Love and a Time to Die rec"I thought you might like that one. Of course, one can only read so many books, but you seem to defy the laws of physics in that respect!
I just put a review on Amazon. I actually read your book thinking it might help me in some way - I write books about local mores in Croatia - and thought it a terrific read. Wish I could write as elegantly as that.....I should have put a review on right away, but I saw your name on Goodreads, and it reminded me to do so!
Anthony
Off to the sun for an all-too-brief break next week, but will continue to read and review with the utmost dedication (see link). http://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com/20...
