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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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"Another excellent historical novel from Maggie O'Farrell, this time a tale of how the land from which we came and on which we live affects profoundly aspects of our lives. The specific land in this case is a segment of western Ireland, and the focus "
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| A collection of some of Vasily Grossman's WWII journalism, including comments showing what had been deleted from previously published versions by the Soviets. The collection includes Grossman's famous early report about Treblinka. His heartfelt accou ...more | |
"I have read "The Illustrated Man" several times before, but have not read it cover-to-cover probably in this century, only reading some of the stories here and there (it is, like many of Bradbury's books really a collection of his stories).
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I had recently read a fine epistolary novel (The Correspondent) and thought of Dracula. I read it about 60 years ago and didn't care for it, but for some reason, I decided to give it another try. After trudging my way through the seemingly interminabl ...more |
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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I had recently read a fine epistolary novel (The Correspondent) and thought of Dracula. I read it about 60 years ago and didn't care for it, but for some reason, I decided to give it another try. After trudging my way through the seemingly interminabl ...more |
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Opening Manassas: The Iron Brigade, Stonewall Jackson, and the Battle on Brawner’s Farm, August 28, 1862:
"I really enjoyed the back and forth "fog of war" chapters by the two authors, each giving only one side of the battle, with even the maps in the chapters only showing the particular side the chapter is about. It is like playing a board war-game with "
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| Another great book by Steve Brusatte: a fascinating account of the evolution of birds. I especially liked the story of the author's pride when his young son was asked by a journalist what his favorite dinosaur was and responded, "penguins." The book ...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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