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Victor A. Davis

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Victor A. Davis has always loved reading and writing short stories. He is an avid hiker and even when away from the world of laptops and wifi, keeps a pocket paperback and a handwritten journal to keep him company on trail. He is the author of two short story collections, Grains of Sand and The Gingerbread Collection . ...more

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Average rating: 4.33 · 58 ratings · 52 reviews · 24 distinct works

	The Gingerbread Collection: Short Stories 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gingerbread 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grains of Sand 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Night on Earth 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Change it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Night at the Lake 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flying Kite 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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20/20 Challenge

Every year I participate in Goodreads’ Reading Challenge. For 2020, I’ll be doing something a bit different. I’ll be reading no new books for the whole year. Instead I’ve collected many of my all-time favorites and committed to re-reads only, because (wait for it) hindsight is 20/20 and I’m interested in exploring the headspace of re-discovery, particularly of books I read and fell in love with a Read more of this blog post »

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The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)

by Lauren Weisberger

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A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram (Goodreads Author)

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Victor Davis said: " I read this book cover-to-cover when it first came out. I was sixteen and naive and already falling in love with computers. This book pushed me over the precipice into a lifelong fascination with computers, math, complexity, physics, cryptography, th ...more "

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“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”
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