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Gavin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gavin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Gavin Roy’s Followers (295)
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Gavin Roy
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
April 20, 1988
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December 2010
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https://www.goodreads.com/gavinroy
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I loved Nathan Hill's second novel, but this, his debut novel, was just as good if not better. Both are primarily based in Chicago, both hop between characters and decades, both are hyper-descriptive of settings and traits, e.g.: SETTINGS: items in an ...more |
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| I am on a handwriting kick and discovered this one at the library. Hensher delves into the history and recent decline of handwriting in a manner quite blunt and funny, delivering sidelong observations in that uniquely British, sarcastic way known to ...more | |
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| I picked this up years ago and remember loving the parts about bizarre borders: that lighthouse island between Sweden and Finland, the Delaware Wedge, all those exclaves and enclaves in Belgium and a counter-counter-enclave in Bangladesh. | |
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| An enthusiastic primer on the history of Cleveland for schoolchildren in 1955, discovered among my grandfather's things. With five generations on both sides from this city, including my Czech, Scottish, and German ancestors, this was a nice little lo ...more | |
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“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”
― The Immense Journey
― The Immense Journey
“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“We teach best what we most need to learn.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains, and belatedly she understood that this was how a loved one disappeared. Despite the shock wave of walking into an empty flat, the absence isn’t immediate, more a fade from the present tense you shared, a melting into the mast, not an erasure but a conversion in form, from presence to memory, from solid to liquid, and the person you once touched runs over your skin, now in sheets down your back, and you may bathe, may sink, may drown in the memory, but your fingers cannot hold it.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
