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Phil’s 2024 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
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
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PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Charles Pal
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Member Since
May 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/goodreadscomphil_dwyer
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
Phil’s Recent Updates
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Phil Dwyer
is 45% done with The Family Remains
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is 25% done with The Family Remains
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| Some valuable insights, which are applicable across all artistic disciplines, not just memoir writing. Recommend. | |
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| I expected to really love this, and the first hundred pages or so promised that I would, but the deeper in I got, the more bored I became with all the obscure references and lack of solid plotting. I had to take a break halfway through. I finished it ...more | |
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| Quick enjoyable read for a snow bound weekend in the country. | |
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Katabasis
by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fantasy |
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| Not her best IMHO. The premise is fine, in fact I wrote a short story about 20 years ago based on the same premise, so I can hardly pick fault with that. Just that the ending seemed to be a little rushed to me. | |
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| Have to say I agree with many of the comments from other readers. This felt overly complex and long, and that complexity made it quite difficult to follow every one of the story threads. Too many possible bodies, strange connections, red herring and ...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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Goodreads Librarians Group
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Death, Dying and the End of Life
— 70 members
— last activity Mar 11, 2020 01:16PM
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
— 263 members
— last activity May 04, 2020 01:51AM
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
Brain to Books Cyber Convention (FAIRGROUNDS)
— 830 members
— last activity Mar 05, 2019 07:10AM
Welcome to CyCon! Find more at HTTP://WWW.B2BCYCON.COM We meet "LIVE at The McKinley" April 2019! ...more
Memoiraholics
— 5 members
— last activity Jan 20, 2018 12:31PM
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
