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Lydia’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Lydia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Lydia Schoch
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August 2008
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https://www.goodreads.com/lydiaschoch
Calling All Authors: The 2024 Winter Blogfest Is Open for Submissions!
Author friends, here’s something fun for you from Facebook!
If you don’t use Facebook, I’ll provide a quick summary here.
Long and Short Reviews hosts two Blogfests per year, one in the summer and a second one in December.
They are currently accepting submissions from authors who want to write a guest post for them over the holidays.
They will need things from you like:
1) a prize to give to one of the Read more of this blog post »
If you don’t use Facebook, I’ll provide a quick summary here.
Long and Short Reviews hosts two Blogfests per year, one in the summer and a second one in December.
They are currently accepting submissions from authors who want to write a guest post for them over the holidays.
They will need things from you like:
1) a prize to give to one of the Read more of this blog post »
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A Dark Corner of My Soul
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2015
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Waiting for Earl to Die and other stories
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2015
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Tumble
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2014
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Down Darkened Corridors
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New Horizon: Darkness Dawns
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Lydia’s Recent Updates
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Lydia Schoch
voted for
Baldwin: A Love Story
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Readers' Favorite History & Biography
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Lydia Schoch
voted for
107 Days
as
Readers' Favorite Memoir
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Lydia Schoch
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Loneliness only makes the holidays even harder. Thanksgiving isn’t a common setting in the books I read, so I was intrigued when I realized that November and early December was when Natalie had the experiences she had here. I also appreciated the fact ...more |
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Lydia Schoch
rated a book it was ok
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The inner life of a curmudgeon is a fascinating and frustrating thing. One of the things this book did get right in my opinion is how people can be prejudiced in part because they haven’t been exposed to the group(s) they dislike. No, this doesn’t ma ...more |
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Lydia Schoch
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Nature is for everyone. “Dandelion” was a heartwarming tale about a tiny, human-like creature who helped an injured duck. The kind and brave protagonist, Dandy, made me smile. I also appreciated how much this felt like a traditional fable with its str ...more |
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Lydia Schoch
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9 other people
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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance's review
of
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community:
"This was the book that started it all for me, when I first read it way back in 2002. What's going on in America? I thought to myself. I saw problems with people when I worked for the Census Bureau. People are isolated, I saw. They don't join groups l"
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"Not to be a hater but they had no chemistry and I was bored "
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Lydia Schoch
rated a book really liked it
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There’s nothing quite like celebrating the holidays far from home…especially when far from home means living on a distant moon! I enjoyed the way this short story explored how the characters honored old family traditions while also creating new ones t ...more |
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Lydia Schoch
rated a book liked it
For the Rest of Us: 13 Festive Holiday Stories to Celebrate All Seasons
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Traditions give the year meaning. I was intrigued to explore Valentine’s Day through the perspective of an aromantic character in “PS. I (DON”T) LOVE YOU.” That was a clever choice that gave Elis plenty of opportunities to figure himself out and form ...more |
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“You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it.”
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
“If you choose to try to make a life with another person, you will live by that choice. You'd find yourself having to choose again and again to remain rather than run. It helps if you enter into a committed relationship prepared to work, ready to be humbled and willing to accept and even enjoy living in that in-between space, bouncing between the poles of beautiful and horrible, sometimes in the span of a single conversation, sometimes over the course of years. And inside of that choice and those years you'll almost certainly come to see that there is no such thing as a 50-50 balance, instead it will be like beads on an abacus, sliding back and forth, the maths rarely tidy, the equation never quite solved....”
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
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This book club is for people who want to read books and talk about them! Why else would you be here? Every month the club will choose a book from a l ...more
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