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Samuel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Samuel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Samuel Eddington
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July 2007
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https://www.goodreads.com/benedorm
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Diamond in the Desert: A History of the Amargosa Valley Library
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2009
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2 editions
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The Hedgehoggiary
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2015
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"The quality of this book is a bit uneven. The sections on the women comic strip artists of the first half of the 20th century and the women working in comic books in the golden age of comics were very good. I learned a lot about some really talented "
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| Let me preface this review by saying that I'm not a Kim Kardashian hater. I think she has talents, even if those talents cluster around being a savvy businesswoman, and I think she's smarter than she sometimes appears to be on the surface. So no, thi ...more | |
"Hate to say it, but every time I've had a chance to see a Hirschfield painting, I've probably walked right past it. It's a shame, because they are rich, unsettling pictures by a self-taught artist (Meyer teaches us that this is the appropriate term, "
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| I wish I'd been able to see the exhibition that this book accompanied. It attempts to put "outlier artists" (what might be called outsider artists or art brut artists in other texts) in conversation with "vanguard artists" (academy-trained), most of ...more | |
"Published in the 1950's, Ken Smith's look at the Hall of Fame might seem odd to modern readers, as so much has changed since he wrote it. But I found it delightful, a sort of time capsule -- reading about the history of the Hall and of Cooperstown it"
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| When my mother died, I inherited two trunks that had been in her basement. Mostly, they were filled with photos, papers, that sort of thing. But tucked in one of them was this volume, which she must have picked up on the trip to Ireland that she took ...more | |
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Years ago, I actually saw this exhibition at the National Gallery in Singapore. Recently, I dug this guide out of my collection and read it, remembering the fascinating -- and well-curated -- experience of being in the gallery. The exhibition was, sad ...more |
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| A tender, poetic series of short essays about endangered animals. In general, it doesn't go by species; the chapters are titled things like "The Seal," "The Hedgehog," and "The Bat," and go on to discuss characteristics of the group and which members ...more | |
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| This brief collection of stories about Mears' experiences growing up and living on Chincoteague isn't all that well organized, but it's definitely interesting. It would be better with an index of characters and a timeline and so on, but I'm glad Mear ...more | |
“The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From "The Mower”
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Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From "The Mower”
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“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.”
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“A conversation with Miss Zwida would lead me inevitably to talk about seashells, and I cannot decide what attitude to take, whether to pretend absolute ignorance or to call on a remote experience now vague; it is my relationship with my life, consisting of things never concluded and half erased, that the subject of seashells forces me to contemplate; hence the uneasiness that finally puts me to flight.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.”
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“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
