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Jim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jim Kearney
Goodreads Author
Born
in New York, The United States
Member Since
January 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/kearneyjim
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Mack 1 Red vs. Blue
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2012
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Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered:
"I have been reading Judith Viorst books for decades. I gave so many away as gifts for milestone birthdays and still have many on my bookshelves, because I treasure the printed book over the digital. Viorst has always been right on target as she inter"
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| At a time in our nation's history when two extremes, the "woke" left and the religious right, are tugging at our arms with evangelical zeal in opposite directions, I recommend we wrap both our arms around a copy of Justice Anthony Kennedy's excellent ...more | |
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| The audiobook is a poor choice, go with the Kindle app or text. The author isn't in prime voice at this age. Because his tone is informal and you can't "hear" quotation marks, it's difficult to understand whether the jokes and stories he's telling ar ...more | |
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| Professor Balmer would make a stronger argument for the principles he espouses by better concealing his Trump Derangement Syndrome. Since this is just an update of an earlier book, perhaps the next edition could omit his anti-Trump tirades (ranging f ...more | |
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is starting Inside Comedy: Finished audiobook, but will review parts in the (searchable) Kindle version before posting a final review.
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Michael Berman's review
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Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades:
"Five stars for the stories, 2 stars for the writing, averaged out and rounded up to four stars. The stories are magnificent -- David Steinberg has had a front-row seat to US stand-up and television comedy for 50 years, and he shares some real gems. ("
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“The moral ascendancy of equality has made it difficult to use concepts such as virtue, excellence, beauty and – above all – truth.”
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
“No wonder the summer solstice had been such a fun day in northern Europe before Christian missionaries arrived from the sunny south. If priests had not driven sex underground, what would the north have been like? Would art have flourished in the absence of sexual repression? What about artillery and fortification? The Reformation? The Thirty Years War? The French Revolution? The final perfection of murder as blood sport at Verdun and Dresden and in the Gulag?
In short, where would we be without Jesus?”
― Old Boys
In short, where would we be without Jesus?”
― Old Boys
