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Leonie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Leonie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Leonie M. Smith
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August 2011
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New Publication Time!
It’s been a while but I’ve published a new story! Pray For Shackleton is a follow up to Medium Freighter Seeks Crew.
Back cover blurb:
“Exciting times for the crew of the medium freighter, Lady Vespertine. Captain Sam Cooper finally bought his long-desired shuttle and is fulfilling his dream of prospecting for precious metals in the asteroid belt. With all the necessary permits acquired, a geologist
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Dark Words: Stories of Urban Legends and Folklore
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2021
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Burying Gabe
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Everyone Comes To Joe's
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Medium Freighter Seeks Crew
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2021
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Clones to the Left of Me
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2007
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Parisienne Skies, Full of Strangers
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Pray For Shackleton
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Fair Wind To A Steel Breeze
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Pray For Shackleton
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2024
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Leonie’s Recent Updates
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I've read quite a few Banks but not this one!
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| Possibly only the second novel I've read that had no female characters at all. (The other being Lord of the Flies, which I was forced to study at school.) A bit dry but had a lot of interesting ideas. I think it would've benefitted from dividing each ...more | |
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"(retrospective review c.2012 I had bought this book in a big Borders in Cambridge 2 years earlier)
2 years on and the great big bookshop and the Borders chain is no more :( I guess retail and the high street is destined always to follow current social" Read more of this review » |
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Leonie
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Tony Lawrence’s review
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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I have to admit that I blasted through the whole lot earlier in the year! Still as good as I remembered, and plenty from the later volumes that I'd fo
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Leonie
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Tony Lawrence's review
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1):
"(retrospective review c.2003)
I read and enjoyed this (the series) so long ago, but it still holds fond memories as a quirky & unique English SF comic classic. Not so much a literary masterpiece, but definitely 'out there' in a field of its own, proba" Read more of this review » |
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“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”
― The Stars My Destination
― The Stars My Destination
“You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...'
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Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. Pigs, you! All right, God damn you! I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. Blow yourselves to Christ gone or come and find me, Gully Foyle, and I make you men. I make you great. I give you the stars.”
― The Stars My Destination
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Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. Pigs, you! All right, God damn you! I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. Blow yourselves to Christ gone or come and find me, Gully Foyle, and I make you men. I make you great. I give you the stars.”
― The Stars My Destination
“Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.”
― The Demolished Man
― The Demolished Man
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
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