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Colin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Colin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Colin Greenland
Goodreads Author
Born
in Dover, The United Kingdom
May 17, 1954
Genre
Influences
Member Since
August 2011
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Take Back Plenty (Tabitha Jute, #1)
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1990
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2 editions
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Harm's Way
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1993
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14 editions
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Seasons of Plenty (Tabitha Jute, #2)
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1995
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12 editions
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The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British "New Wave" in Science Fiction
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1983
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11 editions
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Mother of Plenty (Tabitha Jute, #3)
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1998
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7 editions
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Daybreak on a Different Mountain (Daybreak, #1)
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2013
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6 editions
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The Plenty Principle
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2013
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4 editions
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The Hour of the Thin Ox (Daybreak, #2)
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2013
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5 editions
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Other Voices (Daybreak, #3)
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1988
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6 editions
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Spiritfeather (Dreamtime, #4)
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2000
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Colin’s Recent Updates
"Masterpiece of the surreal and absurd.
Mills is hard to place genre and style wise, but somewhere between Camus and Mortimer is about right. Genius." |
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Suzi Ruffell's podcasts are wonderful, especially LMF. Hard to imagine life without that. Suzi Ruffell's stand-up is astonishing. Watching her on stage I was so transfixed I found I was forgetting to breathe. This book, though – what this book is, thi ...more |
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Am I Having Fun Now?: Anxiety, Applause and Life's Big Questions, Answered:
"I’ve been a like-minded friend since pre-pandemic (clang!) and this did not disappoint. Disarmingly honest, funny and heart-warming.
Important to note that I smashed through most of this while sitting cross-legged on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium flo" Read more of this review » |
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| Another Book Group choice. The best thing about it was the wonderful sense of relief when I decided I could allow myself not to finish it, and instead picked up a book that was good. (Room Fifteen.) It was like putting down a cup of cold instant coff ...more | |
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“Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader’s desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That’s called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.”
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“Sometimes he tries to catch her, wading frantically through earth that has turned to water, or sometimes through air. Sometimes she tries to catch him. They never catch each other, no matter what.”
― The Sandman: Book of Dreams
― The Sandman: Book of Dreams
“Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.”
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| You'll love this ...: How do you know when to stop reading a bad book? | 140 | 524 | Dec 16, 2014 03:56PM | |
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“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood