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Doug’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Doug’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Doug Jordan
Goodreads Author
Born
Peterborough, Canada
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Influences
Mark Twain, Stephen Leacock, Peter Mayle;
Antonio Damaso, Martin Selig ...more
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Member Since
February 2012
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The Maxim Chronicles
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The Treasure of Stella Bay
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2021
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The Dynamics of Management
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2016
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The Hallelujah Chorus
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2017
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Alex' Choice
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Travels With Myself
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2020
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Amitié, A Novel
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My Story, Mostly
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Beyond the Gate: Poetry and Photography
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Beyond the Gate: Poetry and Photography
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25.24 Wilkins Micawber’s Principle
I shared an office with a distinguished older gentleman who was many times more, or less, the man than met the eye. A smaller man but a towering intellect, immaculately dressed, and a sly sense of humour, with a propensity for lickerous limericks.
His Nibs and the author, New Year’s Eve 2018JFW came from a privileged family and enjoyed a comfortable life growing up in the 1940s Toronto. Privileged
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| Superior read. Classic who dun it with all the suspects located in the mansion, backgrounds gradually revealed. More than a few possible perpetrators. The reacquaintance of the constant characters, Dalgliesh and his team, and their love lives. Superb ...more | |
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“I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.”
― More Happy Than Not
― More Happy Than Not
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
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“But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.”
― Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
― Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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