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Grace’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Grace’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Grace Ombry
Goodreads Author
Born
The United States
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
August 2014
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Smokin' & Cryin'
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State of Love & Trust
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published
2016
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2 editions
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
City Dairy (deleted scene no. 2)
Author’s note: In the interest of starting Smokin’ & Cryin’ as close to the inciting incident as possible, I cut a couple of scenes that came beforehand. I still like them and thought it’d be fun to share them anyway. City Dairy is 2 of 2. All Bev wanted was milk, bread, and Virginia […]
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I’ve avoided rock memoirs for quite a while (more on that below).Not sure what possessed me to give Alex Van Halen’s memoir Brothers a shot but I’m glad I did. While the Van Halen story will always be a good one (Van Halen Rising was fascinating!) Bro ...more |
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DNF @ 11 %. The only “mysterious” things up to this point were: 1. Why are we told Edith found this job “through a website,” then shortly afterwards told that she found this job “in the paper?” 2. Why do we spend the first chapter enduring her bewilde ...more |
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An intriguing concept bogged down by facile, unimaginative execution. The characters, mostly single, upper middle class 30-somethings, grapple with learning that their lifespans are shorter than expected. All the dialogue sounded identical no matter t ...more |
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An intriguing concept bogged down by facile, unimaginative execution. The characters, mostly single, upper middle class 30-somethings, grapple with learning that their lifespans are shorter than expected. All the dialogue sounded identical no matter t ...more |
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| DNF at 41%. No criticism. Just had my fill of this deeply depressing read about the banality of evil in all its relentless banality. | |
