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Adam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Adam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adam Bender
Goodreads Author
Born
in Princeton, NJ, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/adambender
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Utopia PR
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2021
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The Wanderer and the New West
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2018
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We, The Watched
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2010
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Divided We Fall
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2014
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Smokers Corner
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2013
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Life Trade
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2013
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Fire Eyes
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Divided We Fall - ABNA 2013 Entry
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2013
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Wrong Gate
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2019
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Invasion Day
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Refreshing My Writing Tools: From Word to Scrivener to Reedsy
Sometimes it takes more than a good idea to get started writing. I’ve long found that having the right tool makes a difference not only for getting started on a novel but for sticking with it through the last punctuation mark.
The how of writing has changed for me over the years. When I was kid, I wrote with an actual pen or pencil. Eventually, perhaps recognizing the inadequacy of my handwriting,
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Villain (Hench, #2)
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The thing about the Surveillance State is that it doesn’t work very well; cameras break down, recognition algorithms give false positives or false negatives. But it works just well enough, if you have enough processing power, to spot you and Ben together in Dortmund and in Amsterdam.”
― Europe at Dawn
― Europe at Dawn
“It never ceased to amaze Shenk that it was his brand of lawyering that was considered banditry, scorned as “ambulance chasing,” when men like Riggs could blamelessly hitch their wagons to multibillion-dollar companies like Wellbridge, whose business model was highly sophisticated bloodsucking: collect and collect and collect, and only pay when forced; when squeezed; when pushed to the wall by the heroic likes of Jay Shenk.”
― The Quiet Boy
― The Quiet Boy
“The main reason Americans buy guns is to tell themselves the story of the failure of government.”
― The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
― The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Truly yours,
Albert Camus”
I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”
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In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Truly yours,
Albert Camus”
I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”
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