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John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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John Peel
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The Secret of Dragonhome (Dragonhome, #1)
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1998
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7 editions
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Book of Names (Diadem, Worlds of Magic, #1)
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1997
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4 editions
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Here There Be Dragons (Star Trek: The Next Generation #28)
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1993
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11 editions
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Doctor Who: Timewyrm - Genesys (Virgin New Adventures, #1)
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1991
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Book of Signs (Diadem, Worlds of Magic, #2)
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1997
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Book of Magic (Diadem, Worlds of Magic, #3)
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1997
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Book of Earth (Diadem, Worlds of Magic, #5)
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1998
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9 editions
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Book of Thunder (Diadem, Worlds of Magic, #4)
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1997
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12 editions
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Book of Nightmares (Diadem, Worlds of Magic, #6)
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1998
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Doctor Who: War of the Daleks (Eighth Doctor Adventures, #5)
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1998
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6 editions
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| Based on the English TV show "Emergency Ward Ten", this tells of their latest patient, a Miss Gilchrist. She goes missing from the ward and is discovered down below, having fallen from a window and injuring herself. But was it an accident, or an atte ...more | |
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| These are not exactly novelettes, but they're also not novelettes either. After the success of the first "Thin Man" movie, the company made 5 sequels, though Hammett was involved only in two of those. He wrote treatments for them - essentially full-l ...more | |
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| The Angel Tree at the Met Art Museum is a Christmas tradition. This book celebrates it with scores of beautiful photos and commentary. Absolutely lovely. | |
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| Complete and utter nonsense in which, as art critic and professor, Nemerov totally misunderstands the point of his subject's artwork. For example, he says: "Raphaelle painted exceptionally small pieces in an era of exceptionally large pieces" (pp176- ...more | |
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| Chief of Detective Ironsides has a case of stolen paintings to puzzle over. The problem is that he has too many suspects and too many motives, but can't see how the robbery was committed. It makes him harder to live with than ever. A nicely written s ...more | |
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| Man-Thing is a hard character to like, since he doesn't really DO anything - mindless, he just stands and shambles about a lot. The plots are thus driven by the humans in the stories, and Steve Gerber has fun making those plots as strange as possible ...more | |
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| Lt. Douglas Boyd stands accused of deserting his command when they were attacked by Sioux warriors. There's just one man who can prove he's innocent - but he's deep in Indian territory, if he's even still alive. And there's only one woman who still b ...more | |
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| Almost at the end of the run, this penultimate volume gives us two stories. "The Sea Angel" is one of the best Doc stories. As so often, there are two different factions opposing one another with Doc and his men in the middle. But here there is also ...more | |
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| Lots of pretty pictures, very little information. If that mixture is fine with you, so will this book be. | |
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| Two okay crime stories. "Catch The Brass Ring" has Gideon Frey stumble into a crime ring on Coney Island, and "Stranger At Home" has Michael Vickers on a quest for vengeance. He and three friends were in Mexico when one of them meant to kill him. The ...more | |
“There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.”
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