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Gilbert’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gilbert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
This is easily the best book in the new Hardy Boys Adventures series thus far. In the previous novel, Frank and Joe sifted through the clues to discover who was behind the disappearance of two teenagers riding G-Force, the star attraction of the amusement park, Fun Land. They identified the villains and got the police to lock them up. So how is it that a third
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| This Great Courses class is a fascinating tour of how people think and categorize a wide variety of knowledge—and why that is sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad one. We all know what biases are and, according to Swan, tend to minimize the num ...more | |
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| This is a wonderful novel that focuses upon the staff of a newspaper that publishes stories about people who report that they have had an encounter with some form of the supernatural or UFOs. That small qualifier "stories about people who report" is ...more | |
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| Victorian Britain chronicles the history of the British Empire under Queen Victoria when it rose to its greatest influence in the world—but it is much more than that. Part of it is a short biography of Victoria herself. But most of it is a look at th ...more | |
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| My expectations for this book got a little askew in the opening which focused on Constantine and his takeover of the Roman Empire. I thought that the revolution of the title referred to something that Constantine did but it is a larger change than on ...more | |
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| This novel has the unique status of being both a prequel and a sequel to my favorite Gibson novel, The Peripheral. The setting is a future world that has put itself together again after catastrophe and is run by AI. Want seems to be a thing of the pa ...more | |
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| Kim Harrison picks up the first contact with an alien species challenge and quickly makes it her own with vibrant and likable characters and an excellent plot that avoids the "guns blazing" tendencies so often found in this genre. Her aliens come not ...more | |
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| Bill the geeky vampire returns for another exercise in zaniness when he accidentally attracts the interest of the daughter of a powerful vampire who decides she wants to marry him. There are only two problems. The vampire was turned while she was lit ...more | |
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| This series is known for hard and fast guns-blazing action with just a tiny thread of a plot to hold the story together. Unfortunately, Jersey Guns’ plot is so thin it's not clear if the thread is actually there from beginning to end. The story lacks ...more | |
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| This true crime novel relates the very sad and completely senseless murder of a young drug addict who was trying very hard to clean herself up and get her life back together. Her murderer—no surprise—is thoroughly disgusting, although he had some abi ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Written Gems: About Gilbert M. Stack--Moderator | 1 | 6 | Mar 21, 2018 04:09AM | |
| Written Gems: At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs | 35 | 7 | Aug 20, 2024 06:53AM |
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
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“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”
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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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Written Gems
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Welcome to Written Gems, a discussion group devoted to the wonderful but often underappreciated works that form the roots of Fantasy and Science Ficti ...more
