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Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark L. Mitchell
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September 2008
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23 Autopsies: A Companion for the Study of Pathology
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Nineteen Autopsies. A Companion for the Study of Pathology
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| It is not very often that I read a nonfiction book on a topic that I have no special interest in and find it fascinating (McPhee’s Oranges comes to mind). Davies was a regulatory economist at the Bank of England. He categorizes types of financial fra ...more | |
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"A baby born at the moment Voyager I is launched into space matures into a woman of peculiar temperament and persona, a character who sees herself as being from an alien planet sent to report back to her distant home on the nature of human life on ear"
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The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West:
"For the most part I enjoyed reading this account of the exploration, subduing and settlement of the American West. It covers over a century of history from the initial forays of the British and colonial Americans into the Ohio Valley to the final tra"
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| I enjoyed Brusatte's smooth discussion of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. He does a nice job of describing key species, explaining the timeline of the Mesozoic era, explaining changes in the Earth's continents over this time period, and giving sp ...more | |
"Despite the tragic and provocative occurrence that sets this story off and a moving conclusion relating to that event, I found the middle 300 pages of this novel particularly tedious. Choi has crafted a multigenerational story that deals with the Kor"
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| I found this a brilliant and gripping account of some WWI soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel (view spoiler) in no man's land. The story is told with an over-the-top gruesomeness. I don't think you would feel as much like y ...more | |
“We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench...”
― Stories and Texts for Nothing
― Stories and Texts for Nothing
“I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.”
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“Knowledge, as opposed to fantasies of wish fulfilment, is difficult to come by.”
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“I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.”
― The Time It Never Rained
― The Time It Never Rained
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
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