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Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
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I wait until the motivation plus the time strike again, but I have not been prolific, so I suggest a more aggressive strategy.
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Tell No Lies
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Migizi Will Fly–A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three
Migizi Will Fly
A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three
By Barbara Rhine
It was my first flight out into the wider world since Covid geared up, so I was a hot mess on May 22, 2021, when I began a five-day trip to Minnesota with an uphill task: Stop “Line Three”—the pipeline Enbridge Inc. has planned to transport Canadian tar sands, the dirtiest of oils, to Lake Superior for
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| Well, as you can tell by my rating, I liked this book A Lot! It's a bit long, and the prose a bit dense at the beginning. But then the whole thing that has been set up by all the description takes off! I will spare you the plot, but trust me, the bil ...more | |
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| Unusual story, which follows a large woman in America who explores her own paths with freedom, and a smaller man in Tibet, who also wanders. Both are deeply influenced by Buddhism, though, given their different cultures, in entirely different ways, o ...more | |
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| On the one hand this was such interesting subject matter (a devoted husband accompanying his wife through hospice after an extended period of cancer), with a dramatic overlaid plot that has to do with the role played by her women friends, and well-wr ...more | |
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| Whoever thought I would like a young adult book this much? I never read them, and wasn't even aware that this was one until I was near the end. An incredibly touching love story between two young people, each profoundly affected by their fathers' alc ...more | |
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| This book is a thriller with excitement and a mystery with cops. But mostly it is an exegesis on aging. The central character is a Jewish New Yorker in his eighties, who struggles with his very serious belief that he has been responsible for the deat ...more | |
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| I do like Anne Hillerman's books, set among the Diné people, with a woman Navajo police officer as a central character, This one, written in 2025, has two distinct elaborate plots, one related to environmental damage, the other to addiction. The char ...more | |
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| You know me--I love books that deal with subject matter so often left out of fiction in the past. So here is an intimate account of nurses in Southern California on the front line of hospital work during Covid. All Latina, none wealthy, staying in a ...more | |
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| The part of this book that worked best for me was its detailed account of famed director PB Pabst (a real person, the subject of this fictionalized account) who has returned to Austria to care for his mother after a professionally unsuccessful sojour ...more | |
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| As an eighty-something practicing American Buddhist who contends with the inexorable changes of the aging process, I found this book fascinating. An honest account of what it's like to have serious cancer drop in the midst of an active middle age, th ...more | |
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| If I hadn't just read Natera's amazing second novel "The Grand Paloma Resort" I might have been equally stunned by this one. So keep in mind that my four-star rating was influenced by the comparison. This is a spectacular debut by Natera, but I found ...more | |
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