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James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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James Grant Goldin
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Of Time and the Heroes
All works are products of their times; but some are linked more closely to their times than others. It's difficult to separate "The Great Gatsby" from the 1920s; in fact, it's one of the works that defines that decade for us. When Fitzgerald wrote it, it was thoroughly contemporary; but much of the aura it retains is due to the glamor of an age which the novel criticizes for the superficiality of
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Okay...SPOILER ALERT. Much of the book is taken up with Moss Hart's first success, "Once In a Lifetime," a satire of Hollywood. Now, there was a 1932 movie of this and it happened to have been shown once on PBS waaay back in the 70s. I saw it. And the ...more |
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| WACKY READING CHA...: 14x14 Challenge | 264 | 250 | Jan 05, 2015 11:00AM | |
| Arthuriana -- all...: Northern Heroes group read Jan 1 - Apr 1 2018 | 88 | 36 | Oct 23, 2018 04:52PM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: Mount Series TBR: ARGENTINA | 196 | 142 | Sep 29, 2020 08:58AM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: A - Z Series Spell Out Challenge | 483 | 224 | Jun 29, 2021 10:02AM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: Not Another Challenge Book! | 731 | 333 | May 04, 2023 10:05PM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: Candlelight Challenge | 285 | 256 | May 06, 2023 09:05PM |
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