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Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark Lisac
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Where the Bodies Lie
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Red Hill Creek
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2021
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Alberta Politics Uncovered: Taking Back Our Province
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2004
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Dream Home
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The Klein Revolution
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1995
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Image Decay
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Lois Hole Speaks: Words that Matter (University of Alberta Centennial Series)
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2004
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The Red Car
Something reminded me today of the 1954 Don Stanford novel titled The Red Car. I read it probably when I was somewhere between 10 and 13 years old. As happened with other boys of that era — you can see the evidence in reviews on Goodreads and Amazon — it influenced my life forever. The book tells the story of a 16-year-old who restores a somewhat wrecked 1948 MG TC. He has help from a foreign-trai
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"Two things drew me to this novel – the amazing cover and the blurb that promised “A brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory.”
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| A decent although far from distinguished genre time filler. Mason is far more flamboyant and perhaps even a bit of a bon vivant in this 1938 outing than the dour and intense character played by Raymond Burr in the television series a couple of decade ...more | |
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Christopher Taylor's review
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The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (Perry Mason #13):
"A very complicated mystery with a conclusion that even though I read through it twice I still don't quite understand what happened. Mason gets involved in gem thefts, a shoplifter, an illegal gambling den, a missing person, and much more. Does the cl"
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Michael Brown's review
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The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (Perry Mason, #13):
"Mason finally goes into court. First time in a long while. No Trask. No Berger. And Paul Drake is still a bit of a wimp. Mason is far more a detective so far. And his main antagonist is Sgt. Holcomb and over the past few books it is obvious that he h"
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| A reluctant 4 stars, upgraded from 3.5 stars. I found it to be about connections, or reverberations between people and sometimes between people and technology or art; other reviewers have thought the main subject is parenting, a theme also present. L ...more | |
"Lerner can write, obviously, and he’s skilled enough that anything of his is readable and enjoyable at some level, but for much of Transcription I wasn’t convinced by the subject matter at all, it just felt like random things spliced together. An ext"
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| Magnificent story telling. Somewhat dated, mind you. The resolution of the tale may also be dissatisfying, although it fits the characters and their sense of destiny. You could make an argument for 4.5 stars. But the psychological and physical portra ...more | |
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| Here's a lighthearted and nicely constructed mystery that also serves as a meditation on fame. Side trips feature the nature of personal relationships, the questionable future of writing in an age when just about everyone wants to write, and the phen ...more | |
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| 4.5 stars. A disturbing tale of human inhumanity against outsiders and anyone that a large group doesn't understand. Many details echo the Second World War but the indistinct setting and time makes the story universal. Ordinary people turn vicious be ...more | |
“… and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die — to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-grey eyes — and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn" (R. Fagles translation)”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“If there is a moral in this book, it is not my fault. If there is social relevance, it crept in without alerting me, in which case I would have hit it with a stick." (from preface to a later edition of the novel)”
― Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse
― Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that’s constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences: in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
