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Alan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alan Sharp
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January 2021
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A Grim Almanac of York
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2015
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6 editions
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A Grim Almanac of Edinburgh & the Lothians
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2009
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Jack the Ripper and the Irish Press
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
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| Ostensibly, this is the sequel to last year’s well deserved Hugo winner, The Tainted Cup. In this case though, I would prefer to use the phrase “next book” rather than sequel. It is certainly the next in the series, but it is more properly its own th ...more | |
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| Ostensibly, this is the sequel to last year’s well deserved Hugo winner, The Tainted Cup. In this case though, I would prefer to use the phrase “next book” rather than sequel. It is certainly the next in the series, but it is more properly its own th ...more | |
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A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fantasy |
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| The people trapped on a hostile alien world and struggling to survive trope has become almost a genre in its own right. From Lost in Space or Star Trek’s Galileo Seven, through movies like Enemy Mine or Pitch Black, to Andy Weir’s The Martian, it has ...more | |
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“ Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? ”
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