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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 is a delightful overview of the presence and critical contributions of black people in the development of America. The title made me anticipate that the focus would be on the cowboy era in the second half of the nineteenth century, but thankfull ...more | |
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| Winston Churchill is one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century. He is one of those individuals whose accomplishments are so over the top that they cannot help but fascinate the modern person. It's not too much to say that while he ...more | |
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| I'm always interested in finding a new Christmas novel and some of the best can be found in the romance genre. This one is a sequel to a book I haven't read yet called Holiday Star. It did not hurt my enjoyment not to have read the first book. It is ...more | |
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| McDonnell gives us several short stories which are set in the world of the Stranger Times and sometimes involve the cast of characters from that series. Mostly they explore different aspects of a supernatural world secretly enmeshed within our own. I ...more | |
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| One of the things that I enjoy so much about this series is the absolutely zany imagination of McDonnell. In this one, he manages to put together a genuine Christmas Story meaning that nothing would happen in it without the holiday. Specifically, an ...more | |
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| Pendleton continues Mack Bolan's war against the mafia in an adventure set in Detroit. The standout portion of this novel that really separates it from the rest of the series is the return of a woman first introduced in his Las Vegas adventure. She's ...more | |
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| This is a light-hearted romance between a human woman and a genetically created vampire on a space station. The cleverest thing I found in the story was the idea that the human woman was an alien's pet. Basically, the alien treats her like a poodle, ...more | |
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| Abnett finally hits his stride in the third Gaunt’s Ghost novel. Part of the reason he’s so successful here may be that this is the first true novel of the series. The others are braided collections of short stories. Yet in Necropolis, Abnett takes t ...more | |
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| Eakin follows mostly chronologically the extraordinary number of revolutions that marked the struggle for independence from European powers in North and South America and the Caribbean between 1775 and the mid-19th century. In doing so, he seeks to f ...more | |
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| Allyson takes his readers on a wonderful journey around North America in the years leading up to the start of the American Revolution. What makes this book so extraordinary is not simply that he offers excellent overviews of well-known events and del ...more | |
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“[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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