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Samuel’s 2022 Year in Books
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Samuel Eddington
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The United States
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July 2007
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https://www.goodreads.com/benedorm
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Diamond in the Desert: A History of the Amargosa Valley Library
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2009
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2 editions
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The Hedgehoggiary
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2015
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| The most noteworthy thing about this book might be its tone, which is warm, conversational, and opinionated, as opposed to the clipped, dry style of most field guides. But it also works well as a guide, with the field marks of common birds clearly li ...more | |
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How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety: And Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism, and Other Dangers That Threaten Their Nine Lives:
"This should be a 3.5 — after all several parts did have me literally laughing out loud...but toward the end, the redundancy was a little painful. Probably the best thing about this book was reading the goodreads reviews from people who could simply N"
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| It's basically just one joke, and it doesn't land any punches on the extreme right wing that haven't been landed many times before. Still, it's pretty funny, and the title alone is probably worth the price of admission. ...more | |
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| This is the catalog for a 1998 exhibition at the Fleisher/Ollman gallery. The essay isn't detailed, and has long since been superseded by better works in full-length books. However, if you're a serious Von Bruenchenhein fan, you should pick this up s ...more | |
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The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People:
"There's some helpful information in here that I hope will help me inspire my staff, but it's bogged down by what is essentially a 230-page advertisement for Chapman and White's consultation services. My suggestion: read Sections 1 and 2, and scan thr"
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
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| Sort of the inverse of the What If? books, but every bit as glorious. I loved it. | |
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| The On Track series isn't as mammoth or informative as, say, the All The Songs series. I did wish for some additional detail, but this was still a nice guide to have with me as I've been doing a deep dive into the Who's discography over the past mont ...more | |
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| A deeper, richer volume than the first, as the worldbuilding gets more complex and we spend more time with the main characters. Definitely going to keep reading this series, though I'm pretty sure that the next one is going to be heartbreaking. ...more | |
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| I picked this up randomly -- it was the only vaguely-interesting thing left at a local store's going-out-of-business sale. But I found myself genuinely enjoying it, with its odd combination of horrifying, funny, and kind of cute. I think I'm going to ...more | |
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| The essays are a bit hit or miss, and the curation, which somehow features only one female artist (plus a mention of Aloise Corbaz in the introduction), leaves something to be desired. However, the meat of the book is good reproductions of rarely-see ...more | |
“The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From "The Mower”
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Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From "The Mower”
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“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.”
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“A conversation with Miss Zwida would lead me inevitably to talk about seashells, and I cannot decide what attitude to take, whether to pretend absolute ignorance or to call on a remote experience now vague; it is my relationship with my life, consisting of things never concluded and half erased, that the subject of seashells forces me to contemplate; hence the uneasiness that finally puts me to flight.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.”
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“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
