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Nick’s 2025 Year in Books
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Nick De Meersman
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honestly? To see if I could do it :)
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De clan van de glimsteengrotten
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De clan zonder thuis
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Verhalendans: Een duistere reis door tijd en folklore
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| Het is lang geleden dat ik nog een zulk grotest verhaal heb gelezen maar wat het goed maakt, is dat het in de geest van de banaliteit van het kwade is. Mensen praten over curry eten en nieuwe insectensnacks maar tussendoor over hoe een collega gekoze ...more | |
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As someone already convinced of both the continued relevance of Confucianism as an idea, philosophy and political tool and one convinced that Fukuyama was a fool when he declared the end of history, Tongdon Bai could only lose me and he did. I wasn' ...more |
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Hello Nana
concerning the Sankin kotai; no but on the what the cost of the feudal system was for the commen man I can recommend this Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan Stephen Vlastos Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, See Full Answer |
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| About a decade ago I was privileged to be at a small wildlife reserve in southern Zambia, staying for three weeks with the rangers and observing them in their work. One particular job was the snare patrol; along certain tracks local villagers would p ...more | |
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*this review is a postcard from Outlier Island* 🌴📨📫 short review for busy readers: a future post-apoc story told in a highly dialected form of English. 12-year old Riddley Walker, a mix of Huck Finn and a Christian mystic, must navigate a cha" Read more of this review » |
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"Nothing since Ashes of the imperium has grabbed me the way Apostle did. We FINALLY get a good Word Bearers book that isn’t 20 years old. I didn’t expect it to come from David Annandale of all people, but I’m glad it has - I consider it a bit of a red"
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"I genuinely want to rate this higher because I do appreciate the big swing conceptually that this story is, but it fails in a few key areas, leaving it sort of a mixed bag. My biggest gripe is that this story of a guerrilla proselytisation is glossed"
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| I am not usually one for straight up praise but this one earned it; apostle is everything a 40K book is supposed to be; it is grotesque, it is loud, it is dark, it has no good guys (or galls), it embraces the lore and puts it on the pedestal of aweso ...more | |
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| It is with some shame to admit that I wasn't that thrilled by alice and her adventures. This was due on the one hand my growing dislike of flowery language and a preference for a more economic style of story telling with the occasional flourish. Howe ...more | |
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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
― The Complete Chronicles of Conan
― The Complete Chronicles of Conan
“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”
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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
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“Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.”
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