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David’s 2025 Year in Books
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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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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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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
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David
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Phil's review
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It:
"I have only been on Goodreads since 2018 but since I joined there have been several major changes and IMHO, all of them made the site worse. Remember the old book pages? PM? Why does every change make the site worse? GR is becoming enshittified! But,"
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From what I've read, the people developing AI are so hungry for content for their LLMs, that they've scoured the internet for it. It's why Anthropic s
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900 pages! I could use that in place of a weight belt for my next scuba diving trip. ;-)
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"Sweeping science fiction/apocalyptic read by Schatzing, but oh what a doorstop! The back blurb states 'Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean's revenge as the seas and their inhabitants begin a violent revolution a"
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Mogsy's review
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The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2):
"4 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2019/03/12/...
I was happy to find that The Rosewater Insurrection was as weird and wonderful as its predecessor. In many ways, I even got along better with it because the story was slightly " Read more of this review » |
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Phil's review
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The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2):
"Often the second in a trilogy serves as a 'place holder' for the finale, but Thompson delivers with The Rosewater Insurrection a rather complete tale, albeit one that will make no sense without reading the first installment. Thompson also varies the "
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I'm nearing the end now. I realize that you read this 5 years ago, carol, but great spoiler-free review. :)
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carol wrote: To be fair, I think today's King would write it differently. But he was who he was, and I think the women in his books totally reflect a
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“Forget about criticism and praise, forget about markets and agents and editors. You will remember all of that in time. But for now, forget it. No one is looking over your shoulder, no one is reading what you have written, and no one has an opinion about it. Right now you are alone, and it is time to write.”
― Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence
― Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
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“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
“Education is the biggest threat to authoritarianism.”
― Medusa Uploaded
― Medusa Uploaded
“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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"We'll Watch the Sunrise from the Bottom of the Sea"--This is a beautiful image.
Nov 07, 2014 06:51AM · flag