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Dan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Dan Moore
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2026: I used to love books like this, as a kid, just because they were a great way to know things; now I love them (also) because they are an endangered or exotic way of knowing things, a personal and catechetical way. Before there were free and stan ...more |
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"There's a novel which, though unpublished in its author's lifetime, went on to become, retrospectively, one of the ur-texts of postmodernism. Completed in 1940 but not seeing print until 1967, it is a surreal, disjointed narrative of a supernatural d"
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“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”
― Descent into Hell
― Descent into Hell
“Melmotte is really little more than rumor and illusion; his sudden rise is due less to any deep scheming or villainy on his part than to society's apparent inability to enforce its own standards.”
― Trollope's Later Novels
― Trollope's Later Novels
“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away.”
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Their singing wasn’t particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.”
― The Human Comedy
― The Human Comedy
“The self has no sign of itself... For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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