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Gilbert’s 2025 Year in Books
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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 huge topic that Warren breaks into six easy to follow lectures. Beginning with it’s roots in acting, Warren tracks the development of the concept of Role-Playing Games and, to my surprise, shows that tabletop and computer RPGs were developi ...more | |
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| As is often the case in romance novels, there are no real surprises in this book. We know, of course, that the antagonists are going to fall in love by the end of the book. And we know exactly how the financial crisis looming over the heroine’s head ...more | |
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| This Christmas novel is a cute tribute to the classic movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, where someone bumps off that scrooge—banker, Mr. Potter. You can see it coming from the first time he appears in the book and honestly, you won’t feel sorry for him w ...more | |
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| This novel caught me from the very first chapters as a clearly likeable young women is executed for having murdered her husband. It’s easy to believe that she’s innocent of the crime she’s been convicted of. And it is truly exciting when she comes ba ...more | |
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| If all you know about the British interventions in India can be summed up in the words Plassey, Sepoy Mutiny, and Ghandi, you’ll want to read this Great Courses book. It offers a fascinating look at how the British influenced the subcontinent and its ...more | |
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| I picked this novel up because James Mullaney wrote many of the best novels The Destroyer series and I wanted to see what he would do with his own characters. What he did was create a sort of Cold War superhero—the Red Menace—who spent a few years fr ...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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“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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