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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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A Guardian and a Thief
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| James Rebanks’s The Place of Tides is a quietly compelling book, and one I found myself lingering over. The heart of it is Anna—an elderly woman living alone on a remote Norwegian island, tending eider ducks and gathering their down in a practice tha ...more | |
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| Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional is a quietly luminous novel, and one that surprised me in the best way. As a non-believer, I found the premise—of a woman with no faith joining a convent—immediately intriguing. What the book offers, though, is ...more | |
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| I first read Robert Macfarlane when Underland was a Semifinalist for the 2020 BookTube Prize, and what struck me then still holds true here: his writing exists at the confluence of nature writing, conservation activism, and poetry. Is a River Alive? ...more | |
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| Michelle de Kretser’s Theory & Practice left me genuinely conflicted, in ways that are probably inseparable from my own history. The novel’s academic setting overlaps with my years in an English PhD program, and its send-up of theory-saturated litera ...more | |
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I’m generally wary of memoirs. Too often they tip into self-indulgence or name-dropping, mistaking proximity to events for insight. Geraldine Brooks’s Memorial Days is something else entirely. Written after the sudden death of her husband, Tony Horwit ...more |
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Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Memoir |
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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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