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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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| This book is essentially a collection of quotations, but it was harder to read than one. The contents are by their nature tendentious, and all tiny encapsulations are as wrong as they are right. I did appreciate that I hadn't heard of many of the con ...more | |
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| I like to learn foreign languages by reading them (I liked Tardy's Easy Spanish Reader), and you may not have another way to go with an ancient language, although that isn't quite the case with Hebrew. I enjoyed this book a lot. It's inexpensive, it ...more | |
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| I’m arranging a feu de joie for finally finishing volume 2 of Rick Atkinson’s Revolutionary War series. He’s done an excellent job, as usual, with a detailed attempt at a seemingly all-encompassing history. Several battles are described of which I’ve ...more | |
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| The author was a White House speechwriter from 2009 to 2017. I felt that her discovery or rediscovery of Judaism in midlife was only mildly interesting, but her discussion of the process vis-à-vis antisemitism was more intriguing. I had not thought o ...more | |
"Majumdar's most recent novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, paints a vivid picture of a near future Calcutta in complete chaos from effects of global warming. The focus is on members of two families struggling to survive under the dismal li"
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| I took a course in Biblical Hebrew from The Great Courses that was taught by the author. It's about as good a complete language course as I've encountered, and I'm an old man who has taken my share of language courses. So, I chose this book among the ...more | |
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Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons:
"A fun read for any Simpsons aficionado, giving lots of information that I never knew (such as that it takes about 9 months to make a single episode of the Simpsons). I also liked reading the about the creators and writers of the show (Reiss worked on"
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| I took a course in Biblical Hebrew from The Great Courses that was taught by the author. It's about as good a complete language course as I've encountered, and I'm an old man who has taken my share of language courses. So, I chose this book among the ...more | |
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| Well-written and very clever. I don't know what would get this to 5 stars for me, but perhaps if a single character were likable, or if at least some of their problems weren't of their own making (there is nephew Peter ...). ...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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