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Alan’s 2022 Year in Books
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Alan Hines
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Rip Van Winkle And The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
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Changing Places (Oxford Dominoes Starter)
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2004
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Square Dance
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bookworms)
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Oxford University Press Dominoes Quick Starter: A Pretty Face and Rip Van Winkle & the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Oxford University Press Dominoes Quick Starter: Changing Places & Mulan
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Miles From Home: Evacuees in Tmberscombe During the Second World War
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"3.5 stars. The characters shined in the second half of this novel and, for some, I developed deep affection. I found the first half difficult to penetrate (and remember each character) as there was a big gap from childhood to adulthood and this meant"
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"Hmm, this is a tricky one for me. I was ready to give up after about 50 pages, but I stuck with it and while it certainly improves toward the end, ultimately I can’t forgive the set up that goes absolutely nowhere. 2.5 rounded down."
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"“We are so many… Every single one of these people homeward bound…to different homes which are to each the one and only home, or else outward bound, to different destinations at which each will find themselves, as ever, the protagonist of the story. E"
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“I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see.”
― Imagine Me Gone
― Imagine Me Gone
“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that with sentimentality. With the idea of some indomitable spirit. That's a fairy tale. It's what people say about other people, to avoid the wretchedness. It's just cruelty by other means. Requiring a person to stay alive. For you.”
― Imagine Me Gone
― Imagine Me Gone
“Shuggie heard the nurse say to a male attendant that she thought for sure Agnes was a working girl. “She is not,” said Shuggie, quite proudly. “My mother has never worked a day in her life. She’s far too good-looking for that.” The matted mink coat gave her an air of superiority, and her black strappy heels clacked out a slurred beat on the long marble hallway.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
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