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David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Drazul
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Why my great-grandparents changed their surname upon immigrating to this country.
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Armistice Day
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2009
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Collection Notice
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2010
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We'll Watch the Sunrise from the Bottom of the Sea
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2013
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Gateway To Empire
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Tile
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2010
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Goodreads Giveaway Results
953 signed up to win a copy
100 won a copy
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3 rated it
1 reviewed it
Is that normal?
I understand that not everyone goes through the trouble of writing a review—that can be too much like work. But I was under the impression that everyone on GR rated the books they read.
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100 won a copy
Three months later...
3 rated it
1 reviewed it
Is that normal?
I understand that not everyone goes through the trouble of writing a review—that can be too much like work. But I was under the impression that everyone on GR rated the books they read.
My working theory is that people just collect books, particularly if they're free, and mine is buried in a electr Read more of this blog post »
David’s Recent Updates
"beautifully written and horrifyingly bleak. this is the story of a young woman's descent into psychosis. descent, then ascent out of it due to meds, then descent, then ascent, then descent... it is a cycle, a circle. deBoer is instructing the reader "
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David
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Mitticus's review
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Arthur: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home:
"Well, I came here because of the movie, but the book isn't exactly an easy read; it's more about Mikael, and yes, it's great publicity for him and his company, but I'll give it some slack because of the good intentions towards the other stray dogs in"
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Hey carol. It seems like we have similar feelings about this one. I haven't continued with the series. Phil's reviews haven't done anything to re-cons
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"Linda Nagata has been on my watch list for a long time. She is fairly prolific, and, interestingly, one of the few 'hard' sci-fi writers, and one of the only ones that I've run into that writes about militaristic aspects of sci-fi. The Red picked up "
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Keeping the pressure off.
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4.5 stars. After reading a couple of short stories in this series, including one that's an intro to the humans in ART/Perihelion's crew (see Artificial Condition), I felt that I was ready to start catching up on Murderbot stories. Yes, it was good to ...more |
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“Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.”
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“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
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“You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.”
― Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
― Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
“An assumption exists that long sentences are bad, but it is usually the case that bad sentences are long.”
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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"We'll Watch the Sunrise from the Bottom of the Sea"--This is a beautiful image.
Nov 07, 2014 06:51AM · flag