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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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| I respect Tao Wong for making a major change in the direction and feel of his series with this sixth book. Jon has returned to earth after four years on a forbidden world and he has a lot to learn if he is to catch up with what has been happening. No ...more | |
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| As you might expect of this Christmas title, the family is large but not nearly as happy as they think they are at the start of the novel. Over the course of the book, just about everyone’s baggage gets unpacked. Mom is dating a younger man she’s bee ...more | |
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| This short story explores what happens when you invent a time machine and purposefully try to create a paradox with it. As one would expect from Taylor, it is well thought out and entertaining, even as I kept wondering why it was so important for one ...more | |
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| As a child, I really enjoyed the television series, Logan's Run, which took the main idea of Nolan's book by the same title (that civilization couldn't support people after their 21st year and so euthanized them) and ran in a slightly different direc ...more | |
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| This is the first book in this series that I read rather than listened to in audio format and I found Montana slightly irritating in this volume, which I never did in the other books. I'm not certain if the difference is in the format. Montana is a w ...more | |
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| Chan has expertly built the momentum toward this book with the previous two novels. Emma, now engaged to the second most powerful god in the Chinese mythos, is trying to come to grips with the growing power inside her while she works to permit her fi ...more | |
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| I am a big fan of Robert A. Heinlein. He has written some truly wonderful books—many of which encourage deep thought at the same time as they entertain. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land are two of my favorites for this comb ...more | |
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| This is a light-hearted look at the dregs of the navy in this science fiction universe. The hero is the ex-son-in-law of an admiral and has a terrible calamity in his past which apparently broke him psychically. Rather than being one of the best and ...more | |
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| One of the general plot motifs that has led to the creation of many a fun romance novel is the “let’s just pretend we’re dating to get our families off our back” idea. Rosen picks it up here in a light-hearted and entertaining fashion. Two people mee ...more | |
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| 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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