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Linda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Linda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Linda Jaivin
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April 2009
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The Shortest History of China
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2021
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39 editions
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Eat Me
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1995
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37 editions
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Rock 'n' Roll Babes From Outer Space
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1996
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20 editions
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Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World (Quarterly Essay #52)
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2013
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7 editions
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A Most Immoral Woman
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2009
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7 editions
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Bombard the Headquarters!
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2025
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3 editions
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The Empress Lover
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2014
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2 editions
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Miles Walker, You're Dead
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2001
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9 editions
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The Infernal Optimist: Small-time Crime, Big-time Trouble
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2006
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2 editions
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The Monkey and the Dragon: A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics and Life on the Edge
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2000
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Great history
Madrid: A New Biography by Luke StegemannMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is an incredible work of scholarship and beautifully written too. Stegemann dives deep into the history of Madrid, untangles fact from fiction and explains how the 'Black Legend' has coloured so much of the rest of the world's view of Spain. It will be in my top recommended 'further reading' list in the book I am currently wo Read more of this blog post »
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| Great little guide to some of the quirkier corners of Madrid as well as some wonderful statuary, contemporary churches and other places that you need to look for to find. I just learned there's an English edition, but I read this in Spanish - it was ...more | |
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| Javier Marías is a powerful writer, and this prequel to Tomas Nevinson, told from the perspective of his wife Berta, makes we want to read that one all over again. As I'm working on The Shortest History of Madrid, I've been diving into novels set the ...more | |
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“Korean Peninsula and stationed a governor-general in the city today known as Hanoi.”
― The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History): From the Ancient Dynasties ... Modern Superpower―A Retelling for Our Times
― The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History): From the Ancient Dynasties ... Modern Superpower―A Retelling for Our Times
“Rectify the names.” He explained: “If the names are not correct, if they do not match realities, language has no object. If language is without an object, action becomes impossible—and therefore, all human affairs disintegrate and their management becomes pointless and impossible.”2”
― The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower - A Retelling for Our Times
― The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower - A Retelling for Our Times
“A poet of the Song dynasty, Sū Dōngpō (1037–1101), wrote of the Tang poet-painter Wáng Wéi (699–759), whose work is considered a forerunner: ‘Savour his poetry, and there is a painting in each poem; look carefully at his paintings, and each one contains a poem.’9”
― The Shortest History of China
― The Shortest History of China
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― State of Wonder
― State of Wonder
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Tom wrote: "Thanks for recommending Susan Faludi's book to me. Also, I hope you're well! Been a long time since we had any contact (and I live in Canada these days too)."Hi Tom! I was wondering why I hadn't seen you around the traps for a while. How's Canada treating you? Which part of the country are you in? And are you still writing? Very best wishes to you!
Linda x
Thanks for recommending Susan Faludi's book to me. Also, I hope you're well! Been a long time since we had any contact (and I live in Canada these days too).
Greg wrote: "Congratulations Linda, on winning the 2014 NSW Writers' Fellowship.I just noticed your achievement on The State Library of New South Wales Facebook page. Well done!"
Thank you so much, Greg! I'm more than thrilled!
Congratulations Linda, on winning the 2014 NSW Writers' Fellowship.I just noticed your achievement on The State Library of New South Wales Facebook page. Well done!
