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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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The United States
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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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| 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 | |
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| I miss the days of lyrical, discursive, imaginative sportswriting. Don't get me wrong, there's some great stuff being written today. But the old-timey style that was prominent in the first half of the 20th century had a sort of magical, awestruck sen ...more | |
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| I have memories of this particular part of Leno's act from when I was a kid -- read a stupid news headline or story, and then say something funny about it. Nowadays, it would be a series of TikToks or something, but in the early '90s, if you wanted a ...more | |
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| An interesting look at an unusual obsession, seen through the eyes of a cast of unorthodox characters who will stop at nothing to find America's tallest trees. Maybe not as gripping as THE HOT ZONE, but still fascinating. ...more | |
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The big question occupying my mind when I finished HOUSES OF RAVICKA was: what's the difference between a great Renee Gladman book and one that just...isn't. The first three books in the Ravicka series, EVENT FACTORY, THE RAVICKANS, and ANA PATOVA CR ...more |
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| A quiet, tender, beautiful book. I loved Little Shrew, his comforting routines, his friends, and his small dreams. I finished the book wanting to know more about him and his world, and I hope that someday we get another window into his life. | |
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Beth wrote: "Thanks for posting about this book, Samuel! I might try to get it through ILL."
It's definitely worth the attempt if the subject matter ap ...more " |
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“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
