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David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Abrams
Goodreads Author
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in Bloomsburg, PA
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July 2007
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https://www.goodreads.com/davidabrams
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Security Analysis: Principles and Technique
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1934
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82 editions
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Fobbit
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2012
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19 editions
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Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
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2013
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Brave Deeds
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Fobbit (excerpt) (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 5)
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2012
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A Country Bookshelf Reader
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Blessings for the Animal Nations
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The Quivering Pen
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System of Ophthalmology: Ophthalmic Optics and Refraction v. 5
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Fobbit
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Sunday Sentence: Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Irmgard Keun
Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.
Children are the bonny little blossoms in the moldering garden of life.
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Irmgard Keun
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David’s Recent Updates
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David Abrams
entered a giveaway
A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems
by Maggie Smith (Goodreads Author)
100 copies
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September 30, 2025
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David Abrams
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One of Us
by Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author)
25 copies
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September 23, 2025
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"Right on the cover, the author defines a Fobbit as a US Army employee stationed at a Forward Operating Base during Iraqi Freedom who avoids facing combat.
This is the story of a truly weird collection of characters including, but not limited to, Capt" Read more of this review » |
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"4.5/5 - I really enjoyed Fobbit and it didn't bother me that most of the main characters were very unheroic. It seemed to me that was the point. We have this poster-boy image of what a soldier is when, in fact, most of what (at least some) soldiers d"
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"“Fobbit” by David Abrams has sat unread on my bookshelf for the last eight years. I knew I’d love it and I also knew it’d take me back to Iraq in some small way. This book takes place the same time frame I was there. I wasn’t a Fobbit, thankfully, bu"
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David Abrams
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| "Hollow" is a flare of pain, a throat-aching cry of rage, a wake-up call at 2 a.m., a sharp splinter slipping under the skin into the bloodstream and traveling to the heart, a rumble in the stomach, and a restless chase after self-identity. Bailey Wi ...more | |
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| This is a full-bodied, deeply-researched, thrillingly-told narrative history of the nation's land (and air and water). Douglas Brinkley does a remarkable job wrapping his historian's arms around the big picture while also stopping every now and then ...more | |
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| In one of his last books published before he died a year ago this month, N. Scott Momaday issues a plea to remember the earth and all that it has given us before we began systematically destroying it, one blade of grass at a time. This is a small boo ...more | |
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| "Travels with Charley" proved to be the right book at the right time. Since we sold our house six months ago and started traveling full time in our 17-foot-van with our three cats (vs. one poodle), I've been thinking about this book. Mostly what I th ...more | |
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| As with every Agatha Christie mystery, I'm reluctant to talk about plot and character for fear of giving anything away, but trust me when I tell you that even I, the calloused reader of many an Agatha, was shocked--shocked, I tell you!--by the ending ...more | |
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
― Fobbit: A Novel
― Fobbit: A Novel
“These were the idiots shat out by West Point, turds in starched uniforms and glistening high-and-tight haircuts, shiny-foreheaded future corporate executives who used words like envisionment instead of vision.”
― Fobbit: A Novel
― Fobbit: A Novel
“Life for him was a constant balancing act between disrespect and career preservation.”
― Fobbit
― Fobbit
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“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
― Fobbit: A Novel
― Fobbit: A Novel
“It was Miss Murdstone who was arrived, and a gloomy-looking lady she was; dark, like her brother, whom she greatly resembled in face and voice; and with very heavy eyebrows, nearly meeting over her large nose, as if, being disabled by the wrongs of her sex from wearing whiskers, she had carried them to that account. She brought with her two uncompromising hard black boxes, with her initials on the lids in hard brass nails. When she paid the coachman she took her money out of a hard steel purse, and she kept the purse in a very jail of a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavy chain, and shut up like a bite. I had never, at that time, seen such a metallic lady altogether as Miss Murdstone was.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
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