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Robert’s 2024 Year in Books
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Robert C. Day
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in Sheffield, The United Kingdom
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What You Are
I don’t know about you but I sometimes feel like how I think other people think I am. I know, I know – that’s called mind-reading and I can’t really read anyone’s mind and so I’m wrong. But that’s how I feel.
For example, if I’m in a field of old people I think that I’m old. And I know this is the wrong kind of example and it doesn’t really fit; but I still do.
A better example is if I’m sitting on
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"The audiobook is a MUST, especially if you love Arnold’s accent. Arnold reads it himself, starting the book out by saying: “I’m recording in my little home studio. If you hear my little pig, Schnelly, going oink oink oink, just bare with me.” I LOL’e"
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"I picked this one up out of curiosity, and frankly, it's shockingly good - and okay, I might also be biased because Arnold has the audacity to read the audiobook, so more than six ours, with this heavy Austrian accent, while I, as a German who also s"
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I like the cover. It took me a while to realise that the Punch face was made up of lots of other things. Perhaps I'm a bit thick like that. The back of the book was enough to make me pick it out from a load of similarly distressed and old books on a H ...more |
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“It is only in alert silence that truth can be.”
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.”
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
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Hallelujah! The floodgates have opened, the constipation is over, the words have flown their coop! I have written my first short story since my schooldays and I feels good! ok, it's probably quite short - 8 pages x 23 lines x 7.5 words per line = about 1380 words, but that's not the point - I have written - yay!It just came to me while I was reading 102 Ways to Write a Novel: Indispensable Advice for the Writer of Fiction that I know all sorts of things about how a story shouldn't be, so why not just write like that deliberately, in a jokey, kind of self-depreciating manner, without worrying how it comes out, and then at the end of the story I can just, kinda demonstrate that I do know what I'm doing (hopefully); so I did just that.
I sat down at 6am this morning and started writing and it flowed really easily, once I'd decided not to worry how bad it might be; in fact that was the point: to make it bad and break all the rules. Then as I was walking to work, the rest of the story just came to me, and then (naughtily) wrote it down when I was supposed to be working.
I'm really happy now. Wheee!
Hello, Robert! Thanks for adding me as a friend! Ahh, the library. My favorite place as a kid. And now you're a Goodreads Librarian! Very fitting!
