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Debbie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Debbie Urbanski
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After World
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2023
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7 editions
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Portalmania: Stories
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2025
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Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
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2022
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Issue 279, January/February 2017
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2017
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Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 743, May/June 2019
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2019
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How To Lose Your Child
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2015
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The Child with Your Name
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Too Many Stinkbugs
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Too Many Dragons
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The Very, Very, Very Long Hike
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| Realized on this read through of Bluets that Maggie Nelson was influenced by Wittgenstein’s form….so this is a nice follow-up to the novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress (though now I really do need to read Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations). Anyw ...more | |
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| I couldn’t stop reading this book once I started. A really interesting form - a memoir written with the short lines of poetry (though the author reminds us several times these are not poems). It ends up feeling breathless, which feels so appropriate ...more | |
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I think this is a must-read if you're a writer. And I think it'd be a great read even if you're not. I've been thinking about how to redefine success on my own terms -- because # of books sold, awards won, or # of best-of lists that you're on has been ...more |
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Debbie Urbanski
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Dan Bouchelle's review
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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game:
"Exceptional work. Engaging and useful. Essential for anyone who uses metrics in human service arenas. "
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Debbie Urbanski
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Dylan's review
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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game:
"We like to keep score. And about many things and in lots of ways. Steps. Mile times. Splits. Max Reps. One Rep Maxes. Fran times. BMI. Runs. Batting Averages. RBI. Elo numbers. Ranks. K/D Ratios. Win percentages. Screen time. KPIs. Views. Engagement."
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I think this is a must-read if you're a writer. And I think it'd be a great read even if you're not. I've been thinking about how to redefine success on my own terms -- because # of books sold, awards won, or # of best-of lists that you're on has been ...more |
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Debbie Urbanski
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Paul Cothenet's review
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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game:
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| A beautiful book, though I am curious what James Agee would have done with the material had he not passed away while writing it. I kind of wish I started with the "restored" version of A Death in the Family (edited by Michael A. Lofaro) -- though it ...more | |
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“She writes her mother letters in the margins of her notebook, which is against the rules (manual, p. 22). There is no way to send a letter anymore. Also Dana, for sure, by now, is dead. "Mom," Sen writes. "I hear coyotes at night. Some of the animals have stopped considering me human." It is the last letter to a mother anyone will ever write.”
― After World
― After World
“Family Planning, n.
Determining, through progressive and empathetic conversation, how each member of a family will leave their life, in what order, and when. My family consisted of Alexia. She claimed we had used Family Planning to decide that she would leave her life and I wouldn't. I never agreed to that. She called my memory faulty and opportunistic. You only remember what you want to remember, she told me, and I said yes yes yes, but isn't that the definition of memory?”
― After World
Determining, through progressive and empathetic conversation, how each member of a family will leave their life, in what order, and when. My family consisted of Alexia. She claimed we had used Family Planning to decide that she would leave her life and I wouldn't. I never agreed to that. She called my memory faulty and opportunistic. You only remember what you want to remember, she told me, and I said yes yes yes, but isn't that the definition of memory?”
― After World
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