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B. Glen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at B. Glen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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B. Glen Rotchin
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in Montreal, Canada
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Influences
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger); A Clockwork Orange (Burgess); The poetr
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February 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/bglenrotchin
War, What Is It Good For?
War. What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing.
So sang Edwin Starr in the 1970 protest anthem War.
Starr was singing about the Vietnam War, a conflict that proved as senseless, misguided, and ideological as any war undertaken by the United States. Decades later, the lessons of Vietnam are still being learned.
Among them:
First, it was fundamentally an ideological conflict. While it had military
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The Rent Collector
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2006
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Halbman Steals Home
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2012
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A Dream of Birds: Word Sonnets
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2007
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2 editions
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Salesmanship: Three Stories
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2013
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3 editions
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| The title captures the cute ambiguity of the book - by definition you can't 'do' nothing (I guess meditation comes closest but even that is active) - and this book is about doing something, it's about understanding and resisting a consuming cultural ...more | |
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| In the acknowledgements at the end, the author admits that this book went from idea to publication in a blistering four months, and I think it shows. If you followed trump's first term on the mainstream media (not the propaganda network) - and how co ...more | |
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| I enjoyed reading this book. It's basically an easy-to-read lay person's primer on the history of neurosurgery, and the state of the art in treatment for brain diseases and injury. I was most interested in the sections that highlight brain anatomy, a ...more | |
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Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
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| I picked up this book after hearing an interview with the author. I’m interested in learning more about the current thinking on consciousness and have read several books on the subject. This book is easy to read without too much jargon and offers a g ...more | |
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| I picked up this book to try to comprehend the hate-tinged, morally-confused, destructive, student (and faculty) protests on campuses across America this past spring. I had the sense that Bloom's observations made almost 40 years ago might offer insi ...more | |
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| I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's the author's personal journey through the country of his birth, the country he loves, the country in all its unvarnished complexity. But it starts (and ends) with the fascinating 1897 pilgrimage to Palestine led b ...more | |
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“He came to the conclusion that it was because there were some things you remembered with your head, like numbers, and other things you remembered with your heart, like shapes, colours, and shadows. He was a heart-memory type.”
― Halbman Steals Home
― Halbman Steals Home
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“He came to the conclusion that it was because there were some things you remembered with your head, like numbers, and other things you remembered with your heart, like shapes, colours, and shadows. He was a heart-memory type.”
― Halbman Steals Home
― Halbman Steals Home
“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims– and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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