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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Show Don't Tell reminds me why I’ve long appreciated Curtis Sittenfeld’s fiction. She has a sharp eye for the awkward, complicated terrain of adult relationships—whether in friendships, marriages, workplaces, or old school ties—and she writes about t ...more | |
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| A Marriage at Sea was irresistible to me on premise alone. I’ve always harbored a weakness for grand-adventure narratives—the sort where ordinary people decide not to let life calcify around them. Maurice and Maralyn’s decision in 1972 to sell everyt ...more | |
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Exit Zero is one of those collections that will absolutely find its readers—even if I ultimately wasn’t one of them. Marie-Helene Bertino writes with undeniable control and imagination, and there’s real confidence in these stories. The prose is sharp, ...more |
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature is one of those literary histories that quietly reshapes how you think about books you thought you already understood. As a literature teacher, my own education focused almost entirely ...more |
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The Sunflower Boys is a striking and emotionally grounded debut that manages to hold two immense pressures in the same frame: a boy’s dawning understanding of his own sexuality and a nation’s sudden plunge into war. Set in the early days of Russia’s i ...more |
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“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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