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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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Not that I know of, but I have had books disappear and then reappear a few days later, so I’m not shocked it happened. Glad you’re back.
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| The Greatest Sentence Ever Written turned out to be a surprisingly timely read. Given where the country finds itself right now—with all the noise, division, and political theater—it was eye-opening to return to the sentence that arguably sits at the ...more | |
"Booktube Prize 2026: Round 2/Quarterfinals"
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The Emperor of Gladness is very much in line with what I’ve come to expect from Ocean Vuong: ambitious, formally inventive, and deeply concerned with questions of identity, memory, and belonging. It’s also a book I admired more than I enjoyed. The pre ...more |
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| I took a brief break from my BookTube Prize reading when The Black Wolf became available at my local library. I don’t read mysteries often, but I’ve now read every installment by Louise Penny, and this latest entry shows exactly why I keep coming bac ...more | |
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| The Fate of the Day took me quite a while to finish. Like much of Rick Atkinson’s work, it’s meticulously researched and clearly written, and there’s no questioning the depth of scholarship behind it. This second volume of his Revolution Trilogy cove ...more | |
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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