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Edmond’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Edmond’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Edmond Thornfield’s Followers (17)
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Edmond Thornfield
Goodreads Author
Born
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 22, 1900
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2023
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/ethornauthor
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A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy
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Asterios and the Labyrinth (Mythos of Knossos)
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Meeting Donatello
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Free Books ARC & Beta Readers – New Authors
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Not long ago I could say that I finished every book I started. That is no longer true. Over the past year, nearly every recently published novel I ope
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Mythic Fiction
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Hello, everyone! If you enjoy historical fiction—not only reading it but understanding how it is researched and written—you may enjoy exploring the es
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| Bento Santiago, nicknamed Dom Casmurro (meaning Lord Sullen, in Portuguese), writes his memoirs in old age to make sense of what happened to him. He tells us of his childhood love for Maria Capitolina (Capitu), the neighbor girl with the famous olhos ...more | |
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| Ilhéus in the 1920s is a cacao boomtown: money arriving faster than the social structures can absorb it, old coronel families clinging to patriarchal arrangements that the new century is already dismantling. Into this comes Gabriela, a migrant worker ...more | |
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| Where The Scarlet Letter drives toward its conclusion with inevitability, this is a more patient, more atmospheric novel. A Salem mansion, built on land seized through a false accusation of witchcraft two centuries prior, still houses the last of the ...more | |
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| Set in a provincial Midlands town during the reform debates of the early 1830s, it follows Dorothea Brooke, who mistakes intellectual austerity for intellectual greatness and marries the wrong man on that basis, and Dr. Tertius Lydgate, who arrives w ...more | |
“I may never know whether I weave these tales from my own imagination or recall them from lives long past.”
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“If birds of a feather flock together, my days have I spent in lonesome flight, still seeking my truest comrades.”
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“Do we, perchance, comprehend those we hold in affection’s embrace, or by our loving them, it matters not who they are?”
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“I may never know whether I weave these tales from my own imagination or recall them from lives long past.”
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“If birds of a feather flock together, my days have I spent in lonesome flight, still seeking my truest comrades.”
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Authors & Reviewers
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Historical Fictionistas
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Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more
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Group Description: A dedicated space where New Authors and Passionate Readers connect. Our mission is to share stories without the pressure of mandato ...more
Goodreads Reviewers' Group
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A group for people to discuss and recommend works of mythic fiction. Mythic fiction is literature that contains elements from mythology, fairytales, l ...more
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This group is for those who dream of other lands. We devour heavy plots with extensive world-building and our libraries are littered with supernatural ...more
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
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We finally have our own library, as many active participants requested: revvue.co. If you’re new, simply add your Amazon book link on Revvue.co and w ...more
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The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is g ...more