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Peter’s 2020 Year in Books
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My Abandonment
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2009
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25 editions
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The Shelter Cycle
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2013
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The Night Swimmers
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2019
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Klickitat
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2016
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The Bewildered
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2005
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This Is the Place
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1997
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The Unsettling
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2006
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Carnival Wolves
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1998
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The Ambidextrist
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2002
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Spells: A Novel Within Photographs
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Friends! A brief respite from my half-assed self-promotion; when I was writing a review of VICKY SWANKY IS A BEAUTY by Diane Williams, I remembered this tiny essay I wrote about a sentence of hers that has long bedeviled me:
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“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary. Don't forget this. Don't forget that thinking can get in the way. Forget the forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
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