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Helen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Helen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Helen Picca
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Books to the Rescue
With Stay-at-Home orders in place in many states, and with events cancelled, shops/salons/cafes closed, there is really no place to go and nothing to "do." Except read. Once, many people said they had no time to read, but now, we have lots of time. And books will save us--saving me--from the isolation and boredom. I can travel to faraway lands, meet amazing people, go back in time, and have unboun
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"The story cuts back and forth between a disaster in 1984 and the story of Joan's journey through the space program. Reid keeps the tension high, making this perhaps her most propulsive novel yet as she balances the drama of Joan’s personal life with "
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| Starting the new year off with a bang, my first 5 star read of 2026. This book has it all: science, God, philosophy, the space shuttle program, family drama, friendships, history, sexuality and a love story. Great plotting, characters and title, lots ...more | |
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| Six stars. Quite possibly the best book ever written. I fell in love with Demon, the little boy in all his innocence and naïveté. He made me laugh and made me cry. As I read I feared where it was going, praying for a happy ending. Kingsolver is a mas ...more | |
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The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood:
"I haven't read Nina Willner's previous book, but after reading this one, Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall is moving up to the top of my TBR!!
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| Extraordinary! Narrative non-fiction recounts the true story of two Holocaust survivors and the Americans who saved them. While it’s a great overview of WWII in Europe , it’s most importantly a human story of kindness and faith, courage and resilienc ...more | |
“I remembered my own 'past' life, buying into the whole success myth, running on that hamster wheel and going nowhere, except from pleasure to pleasure, to new things, new titles, more accomplishments, wrapped up in my egocentric world of superficiality.”
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights to be won. When the anti-war public sentiment was strong, as it was during the Vietnam war, our brave soldiers came home to expressions of disdain and revulsion instead of the respect and honor they deserved. But perhaps the ultimate betrayal for veterans, who willingly risked their lives when their government asked, was making them fight to prove their sicknesses and disabilities were caused by the war in order to receive the free medical treatment they needed, or to be compensated. These were the worst indignities of war.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights to be won. When the anti-war public sentiment was strong, as it was during the Vietnam war, our brave soldiers came home to expressions of disdain and revulsion instead of the respect and honor they deserved. But perhaps the ultimate betrayal for veterans, who willingly risked their lives when their government asked, was making them fight to prove their sicknesses and disabilities were caused by the war in order to receive the free medical treatment they needed, or to be compensated. These were the worst indignities of war.”
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
― The Last Frontier of the Fading West
“It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it”
― The Invisible Bridge
― The Invisible Bridge
“I remembered my own 'past' life, buying into the whole success myth, running on that hamster wheel and going nowhere, except from pleasure to pleasure, to new things, new titles, more accomplishments, wrapped up in my egocentric world of superficiality.”
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
― From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps
“I’ve been around men all my life. I don’t see how you all live with those things. They take more time and energy than a woman puts into her hair.”
― Maud's Line
― Maud's Line
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