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Jeannette’s 2024 Year in Books
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| classic readable, admirable, Krueger book. Good plot, good stable group of characters, good writing, deep social themes of honesty, trust, family, indigenous peoples. Insights galore. Amazing that Krueger is so prolific yet so good. | |
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| Odd to learn that thousands have read this book. First in the series for me. So outlandish and silly that I'm not sure I want more of Thursday Next. Even so, she's certainly a heroine worthy of identifying with. Also, there are so few good sci fi boo ...more | |
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| Characters galore, but basically a small unit among India's expance: grandfather judge, orphan grandaughter, cook and son. Ugly, depressing, hopeless, grim, not a book I would ever read again. Also put me off modern as well as historic books about In ...more | |
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| Following on from the Boy in the Striped Pajamas, this book follows the life of the Boy's sister, Gretel. In fact, the book starts with Gretel at age 71 and ends just after her 72 birthday. In between are her adventures, traumas, entanglements. The a ...more | |
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| Five stars plus. Not often I give a book five stars. This one gets an extra half star because I love trees, and loved the way Ficus carica told her story in between the human story of Kostas and Defne. Following my usual criteria, one star is for the ...more | |
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| This is one of those books so hyped up that readers like me are bound to be disappointed. I read it because of my cross-culture book club. Culture? Well, I listened to the book as it wandered around with Onion, the boy dressed as a girl, having exper ...more | |
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| Another engrossing, entertaining, educative novel by Powers. He certainly has the powers that make a good book, plot, characters, twists, information about subjects that I care about, and a wonderful writing style, readable and glowing. Loved this bo ...more | |
“...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]”
― Cup of Gold
― Cup of Gold
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