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Stephen’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Stephen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Stephen Byrne
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Arda, The Realm, Ilu, just to see what it is like on a flat earth and observe how the stars, moon and sun orbit it
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80 Books Read in the Goodreads Challenge 2021
I've been doing the Goodreads challenge for the past few years now and love the push to read. This year again, I went with 80 and it's the usual mixed-bag of (little) poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Previous years poetry dominated … Continued
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Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by William Golding
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On Morrison
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Stephen Byrne
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Crossroads of Ravens (The Witcher, #0.1):
"Everyone and their granny are writing prequels/sequels to famous series these days, aren't they? With mostly disappointing outcomes.
This one better be an exception to the rule and be good. It's my third most anticipated release of the year, but my ex" Read more of this review » |
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"Nobody writes trite flowery meaningless prose and narratives like Vuong "
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"prose is beautiful, but the plot is so overly trite and forced that it all gets lost in the weeds. main character is unformed and inconsistent and plot is full of contrivances and logic leaps. pretty punishing experience"
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Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
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“Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.”
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“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
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“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones. ”
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