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Christopher’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Christopher’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Christopher Yurkanin
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Three Hundred Words, Volume I, January
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If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning. Jimi unfortunately didn't get the redemptive arc that other reckless geniuses did before they died, like Stevie Ray A People magazine treatment of Jimi's life with lots of details that really don ...more |
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| Enough evidence, both factual and anecdotal, to put the myth of Camelot to a decisive end. Revolting that people still believe in the goodness of this repulsive, raping, murdering, trafficking, lying, thieving, family of filthy cowards, all enabled b ...more | |
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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Sep 01, 2016 08:29PM
Great new profile pic! ....Enjoyed your Top 10 lists which I came across for the very first time tonight.
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Karin wrote: "I can so relate to the reading glasses issue. Congratulations on the Three Hundred Words book. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"Thanks Karin, you too :)
I can so relate to the reading glasses issue. Congratulations on the Three Hundred Words book. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
A rather tough year for reading as my eyesight diminished and the new requirement of the reading glasses dampened my enthusiasm and speed. Nevertheless, I still managed to complete another year of wonderful titles. My top ten for 2015:10) "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
9) "Gatherings From Spain" by Richard Ford
8) "Patterns of Anarchy" by Leonrad I. Krimmerman, Lewis Perry
7) "The Life & Times of Gregorii Rasputin" by Alex De Jonge
6) "The Infinite Loop: a novella of spaceships, time warps and free pie" by Sandra Peterson Ramirez and T.D. Whittle
5) "The Elephant Vanishes" by Haruki Murakami,
4) "The Soul of Marshal Gilles de Raiz" by D.B. Wyndham Lewis
3) "The Fate of Man in the Modern World" by Nikolai A. Berdyaev
2) "Massacre on the Lordsburg Road" by Marc Simmons
1) "Laurus" by Eugene Vodolazkin, Lisa C. Hayden (Translator)
Trying to live with the shame that I know that no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to meet my reading goal this year... I blame it completely on losing quite a bit of the enjoyment of it since having to don the reading glasses.
First time I've won a book on a Goodread's giveaway in a while :)
Goodbye and good luck to paperbackswap.com A two week notice to its members that they now have to pay for membership. Apparently they have "no other options." Prove it, I say.
With still one book remaining to reach my goal, my top ten Good Reads of 2014 (the year of Rick Bass, thanks to Melanie), not including the several 5 star re-reads. Drumrollll…(1) The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness by Rick Bass
(2) The Watch by Rick Bass
(3) The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass
(4) The Hermit's Story: Stories by Rick Bass
(5) The Menace of the Herd: Or, Procrustes at Large by Francis Stuart Campbell (Pseudonym), Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
(6) The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution by Oswald Spengler
(7) Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
(8) Diane - The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper by Kyle MacLachlan (Narrator), Scott Frost (Writer)
(9) The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
(10) Là-Bas (Down There) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Thanks for reading that Ariana, glad and somewhat surprised it helps lol
Thank you Christopher for adding me! I've been thinking about family and the relationships between different family members a lot lately, and I agree with your conclusion that life isn't circular. I'm still trying to be at peace with that, and your insights have helped. :)
It doesn’t appear I’ll be finishing another book by year’s end (and since the ones I am reading also don’t appear to be landing on my favorites list), I present my Top Ten Books of the Year, in order. This year was an astonishingly good one for me and two of the books landed on my “Desert Island Top Ten” list. Number ten was a tie this year as I couldn’t leave off either one, I enjoyed them that much.1) On Power: Its Nature And The History Of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel
2) The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4) The Picture Of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
5) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6) De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
7) Watership Down by Richard Adams
8) Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
9) The Waters of Silence by Thomas Merton
10) The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake and 13 Ways: Illustrated Stories by T.D. Whittle and Sandra Peterson Ramirez
Matthew wrote: "After reading All the Pretty Horses I came to nearly the same conclusion. But I would recommend you read him anyway. You won't regret it. The only thing you may regret is that you didn't write i..."I started reading All the Pretty Horses when it first came out but I was disinterested at the time and never finished. Now that I'm interested, I'm finding it an exercise of the will to NOT read him. Maybe next year :)
I have never read a Cormac McCarthy story but he appears to be so much the type of writer that I want to be, I think I probably never should lest I try to copy him.
{sigh} Back to work tomorrow...
Another GR Giveaway winner! They do seem to come in bunches.
Images from the stories of Three Hundred Words set to Dance While the Sky Crashes Down by Jason Webley.
Woohoo! Winner, winner! Been a while since I won a GR giveaway, feels good :) "American Coup: Martial Life and the Invisible Sabotage of the Constitution"
Katy wrote: "Thanks for the friend request! Always fun to meet other D&D Enthusiasts!"I tried for years to explain to my oldest daughter what D&D was and she never quite grasped it. So, when she was 11, I took her to a comic book store where I heard they played in the back during the evenings and asked if we could sit in and watch for a while. She was fascinated by it, especially by (as usual) the one pretty nerd girl with the pink hair in the group who everyone wanted to play with...
She hasn't ever brought up interest in playing it but I regularly mention to her that I want her marry someone who plays D&D :)
Thanks for the friend request! Always fun to meet other D&D Enthusiasts!
Hmmm... which one of my top ten are getting bumped by de Jouvenel?
Incredible isn't it Matt! And then he make's the time for his awesome book reviews. See: "Cutting For Stone". A wonderful man this C.Yurkanan.
Ugh... Today's quote of the day reminded me why I couldn't and can't stand James Joyce. One Star reviews stand.
Drumroll, please...After much consideration, My Top Ten Reads of 2012:
1) "The Simone Weil Reader" by Simone Weil
2) "Waiting for God" by Simone Weil
3) "Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall" by Allen Tate
4) "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.
5) "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories" by Salman Rushdie
6) "Such a Vision of the Street" by Eileen Egan
7) "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather
8) "Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York" by Robin Shulman
9) "The Sea-God at Sunrise" by G.L. Tysk
10) "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk
Fourth winner! - Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism: A Novella
Another winner, chicken dinner! On a roll!
I am now officially a Goodreads giveaway WINNER! WOOHOO!!!
Thirty-one giveaways and counting... just one...
Christopher wrote: "I don't think Goodreads takes votes, it's just random. Right?..."Is this still about giveaways? I think Goodreads looks at how many reviews you've written on books in the same genre.
By the way . . . A giveaway book I won a few weeks ago came in the mail today, and I just e-mailed someone my mailing address so that she could send me another book I won. ;-)
I don't think Goodreads takes votes, it's just random. Right?...
Christopher wrote: "How many book giveaways must one enter to win just one? {heavy sigh...}"I enter giveaways all the time and only win about 1 in 60. And that's when I do daily tweets for extra entries. =P It's like a part-time job, really. LOL!
How many book giveaways must one enter to win just one? {heavy sigh...}
Matt wrote: "I am intimidated by the pace at which you add books to Goodreads. I feel an overwhelming need to compensate in some manner but I am too busy reading. Alas, I will have to settle for smaller virtu..."LOL!!! I remember bunches at a time that I've read but am frankly too embarrassed to actually add some of them...
