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Chiara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chiara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Chiara De Giorgi
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Doug the Pug
Welcome to the Spot Writers. Thismonth’s prompt is to write a story using the word/concept “pugnacious.” This week’s story comes from the penof Phil Yeats.
In April2024, Phil published The Body on Karli’s Beach, the third book inhis Barrettsport Mysteries, a series of soft-boiled mysteries set in afictional South Shore, Nova Scotia town. For information about these books, TheRoad to Environmental
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| I enjoyed this book thoroughly. It is well-planned, well-written, and fun. The characters are likeable and well-sketched. I will definitely read the sequel and probably get more from this author. | |
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| I enjoyed this book, the unusual main character and her background story, the setting, and the writing style. I guessed the culprit halfway through, though, and I wished to be surprised. | |
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| Nope. This book is a big nope. The story is trite and cliché, the characters are just there to deliver their lines, and on top of that, the writing is mediocre. I found myself heavily editing every other chapter in my head. | |
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| An adventurous story filled with magic, relics, politics, betrayals, evil conquerors, and, of course, love. I enjoyed the story, although I thought it could be better told here and there. | |
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| The characters are likable, the setting is very good, and the story is intriguing enough. The supernatural element, though anticipated, comes across as a bit abrupt. | |
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| The characters are likable, the setting is very good, and the story is intriguing enough. The supernatural element, though anticipated, comes across as a bit abrupt. | |
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| The pace is a bit slow, but the sheep are witty and their interpretation of human reality is fun, so in the end I stayed, because I really wanted to know whodunnit! | |
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| La storia che questo libro racconta è piuttosto semplice, ma è raccontata in modo inutilmente complicato, con un linguaggio e uno stile che vogliono (presumo) richiamare i gialli che si scrivevano un secolo fa. Spesso ho fatto fatica a capire di qual ...more | |
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“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
― Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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