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R.G.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at R.G.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
R.G. Ziemer’s Followers (20)
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R.G. Ziemer
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July 2011
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The Ghost of Jamie McVay
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Blood and Remembrance
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Rivulets: Volume 34
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Bookies Takeover
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In a bloodless coup, I managed to “take over” the Bookies Book Blog on Facebook on October 12, 2020. Host Beccie Weaver invited me to take over her blog site for two hours with full administrative powers. As far as I know, nobody got hurt in the peaceful transition. God bless America!
I decided to share my time with “Friends of Jamie McVay” by hosting interviews with a number of other
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| Always interested in books about Chicago, and this from a fellow South Sider had promise. I was familiar with the South Shore from an early age, as much of my parents' curtain cleaning business covered that "ritzy" neighborhood. Jewish residents of t ...more | |
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| Sure, it's a love letter to the Fine Arts Building from one of the biggest fans, but who doesn't love a Chicago jewel, however tarnished. Anything with that much use is going to look like it, and the Fine Arts BUilding is no exception. Graff, who has ...more | |
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I'm always up for a Chicago story. One criticism I have had with some of the memoir-based novels I've read--they lack grit. That's sure not a problem with The Old Neighborhood. This book, focused on Edgewater in the 70s, is a harsh first-person look at ...more |
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| I couldn't wait to finish this book, and for all the wrong reasons. My stubbornness in these matters forced me to plod ahead through the first half, the tedious detailing of the lives of these privileged and self-centered characters. I considered put ...more | |
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“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
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