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Gina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gina Harris
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in Portland, OR, The United States
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November 2008
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Cara
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2014
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Family Blood
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2014
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Family Ghosts
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Morgan
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Family Reunion (Family Blood, # 3)
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Books by Jung Chang
On this last Friday of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2026, things are not going quite as planned.
I mentioned one category that I still needed to get to last week, but I did not say that it consists of books about complex parent-child relationships. Predictably, the material has gotten complicated.
However, two of the books ended up being more about history:
Big Sister, Little Si
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I liked the movie better, in that I think it conveyed the humanity of the people better and their connection to each other. Here there is so much lack of perspective on the others -- especially with Waverly (does she know how she comes up to June? doe ...more |
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I get the comparisons to The House on Mango Street, but it's not really in the same class. Maybe it's that there are so many unexplained things, or that some of the passages are so brief, but while there would often be a familiar name or song that I ...more |
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Through recounting the lives of her grandmother, mother, and self, Chang gives a very personal account of a pivotal time in Chinese history. Much of it is hard to read, with terrible things happening and prolonged misery, but good things happen too. A ...more |
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“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“Look you wanna know the truth? I don’t really care about the
stats or the cup or the trophy or anything like that. In fact even the games aren’t that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block. Perfection. That's what it's about. It's those moments. When you can feel the perfection of creation. The beauty the physics you know the wonder of mathematics. The elations of action and reaction and that is the kind of perfection that I want to be connected to.”
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stats or the cup or the trophy or anything like that. In fact even the games aren’t that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block. Perfection. That's what it's about. It's those moments. When you can feel the perfection of creation. The beauty the physics you know the wonder of mathematics. The elations of action and reaction and that is the kind of perfection that I want to be connected to.”
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“In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one’ s own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth.”
― The Power of the Powerless
― The Power of the Powerless
“If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth. This is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else.”
― The Power of the Powerless
― The Power of the Powerless
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HELENE wrote: "BOOK REVIEWS:Thanks for accepting my friend-vite. I am a novice author wishing to increase my book sales by increasing book reviews. Kindly refer to the URL link on my profile page for a better un..."
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Majenta wrote: "Hi, Gina! Thanks for contacting me! Congratulations on your books. I hope you are well and having a great week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Take care, stay warm, be blessed!Best ..."
Great! I'm looking forward to seeing what books you like.
Hi, Gina! Thanks for contacting me! Congratulations on your books. I hope you are well and having a great week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Take care, stay warm, be blessed!Best wishes from Majenta
