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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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| Hale uses archaeology to explore what early peoples thought about religion around the globe. These are mostly prehistoric cultures that produced marvelous things that survive until today. And if much of what he tells us is speculative (although it ce ...more | |
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| Whereas the first book in this series was all Gaunt all the time, this novel focuses almost completely on the Ghosts who make up Gaunt’s regiment. It does this through a series of flashback stories, starting with the “founding” of the regiment and th ...more | |
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| The staff of the Stranger Times returns to uncover more magical mayhem and save the world once again. While they are at it, their obnoxious (but absolutely lovable) editor discovers that the actions he was tricked into taking in the previous two book ...more | |
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| In book three of this excellent series, McDonnell takes a piece of the background of the editor of the paper which appeared to have been included to explain why this brilliant (but thoroughly obnoxious) man has sunk to being the editor of this not-ve ...more | |
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| In book 2 the staff of the Stranger Times encounters clear evidence of a vampire—something that doesn't exist. That should be nothing new for our reporters. They've spent their whole careers writing about people who don't exist and events that never ...more | |
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| This is another fantastic book in what should certainly be in the running for best LitRPG series in existence. I say that with the full knowledge that this subgenre has produced a large number of very excellent books. Dinniman's characters are memora ...more | |
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| First & Only is the story of Commissar Ibram Gaunt—the man who led the critical action that won the most important victory in the first ten years of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade—the Battle of Balhaut. As a reward for his skill and valor, dying Warmaster ...more | |
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| Liz Maverick can be counted on to produce short, sweet, clean, romances with peppy characters dealing with situations you can often imagine might really happen. This one involves a man and woman who are helping prepare for their class reunion. They h ...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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