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Phil’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Phil’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Phil Dwyer
Goodreads Author
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in London, The United Kingdom
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PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Charles Pal
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May 2011
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Annie Londonderry: The Woman Who Cycled Around the World
Annie Londonderry (born Annie Cohen in Latvia in 1870) has been largely forgotten by history, but at the end of the 19th century she was widely celebrated as a trail-blazer, a modern woman who wrote: “I believe I can do anything that any man can do.”
She proved it by becoming the first woman to cycle around the world, a feat which, according to the calculations of our indomitable archivist, X.T. Pf
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| Never read any Baldacci before, but my mother-in-law gave me this over Christmas. It wasn't what I expected. Better in some ways, but different in terms of theme and tone. A little preachy for me, but I guess, given the topic (systemic racism), that' ...more | |
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| Can't say I liked the protagonist, Beth, very much at all. She comes across as a thoughtless, selfish bitch. For me (and without giving anything away), the story only really took off in the last 50 pages or so. I found the endless chopping back and f ...more | |
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
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This group is for all those who want to further our cultural conversation about death, dying and the end of life. It is a venue for learning and shari ...more
#B2BCyCon Think Tank
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Get thee over to Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/959667474103494/members/ We are moving! We are condensing Brain to Books to www.braint ...more
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Welcome to CyCon! Find more at HTTP://WWW.B2BCYCON.COM We meet "LIVE at The McKinley" April 2019! ...more
Memoiraholics
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Coming soon--a place to chat about the memoirs we are reading, writing and loving. This is a group to celebrate the genre, as I do with my #memoirahol ...more
