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Joe’s 2025 Year in Books
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Joe Kraus
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| It’s not fair that I read this in light of other novels. In its multi-generational themes of AIDS and it’s devastations, I found myself thinking of it in conversation with Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (which I found overrated next to everyone els ...more | |
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This book is half poetry, half gothic novel, and half generational family drama. Yes, the math doesn’t work out there, but this is the sort of book where 2 + 2 can equal 6. At the narrative heart of this, Agnes has returned to the decaying home of her ...more |
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"3/2/2026: this time thinking about how hamlet is a man defined by his and others desires; he cannot even conceive of his mothers' and casts them only as something gross; his own are beyond him. for clarity on this PLEASE go watch Andrew Scott's perfo"
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Joe Kraus
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| I have a confession that many people will likely find strange. I am waiting, with some eagerness, for Lindsay Graham to write his political memoir. To be clear, I want it to be a candid, legitimate memoir, one where he – in a presumed retirement with ...more | |
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I like the way this one starts. It’s got a solid, pulp-fiction take on the old one-person-marooned-in-space trope. Ami’s crew is dead, her space ship is foundering, and there’s an alien craft not far away. Smitherman sets that scene, and there’s a nic ...more |
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I like the way this one starts. It’s got a solid, pulp-fiction take on the old one-person-marooned-in-space trope. Ami’s crew is dead, her space ship is foundering, and there’s an alien craft not far away. Smitherman sets that scene, and there’s a nic ...more |
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This book is a good library. I’m not sure it’s all that successful as a book. What I mean by that is that Ridley clearly knows his stuff. I didn’t know how long ago this was published – 25 years! In a field that changes every six months – but he bring ...more |
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“You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?”
― The Ghosts of Belfast
― The Ghosts of Belfast
“"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."”
― Glitz
― Glitz
“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing
1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. ”
― Loitering with Intent
― Loitering with Intent
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