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James’s 2025 Year in Books
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James Valvis
Goodreads Author
Member Since
March 2012
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Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2015
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2015
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A Metazen Christmas
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2010
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How To Say Goodbye
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Year One
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2012
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Rattle #89, Fall 2025: Tribute to Late Bloomers
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2025
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Hawthorn Road (Inwood Indiana Vol. 2)
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2010
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Heroes & Heretics: A Pulp Empire Anthology
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2011
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Fractured West 3
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2011
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Pure Fantasy and Sci-Fi Vol 3
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2015
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How to Commit the Perfect Murder
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James’s Recent Updates
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is 11% done with Take Our Cat, Please
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“In the car your wife says
something something and something about dinner,
about needing to eat, and the doctor wanting tests
doesn’t mean anything, nothing, and something
something something about not borrowing trouble
or something.”
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something something and something about dinner,
about needing to eat, and the doctor wanting tests
doesn’t mean anything, nothing, and something
something something about not borrowing trouble
or something.”
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“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.”
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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
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“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
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The Smoking Poet Fans
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— last activity Mar 01, 2019 05:53AM
"Words that turn the page to flame." It's all about an ambiance. The smoky, dim light when you enter, the jazz quartet playing smooth and easy in th ...more
Little Free Library #26112
— 36 members
— last activity May 02, 2016 05:22PM
Independent library open to the public with a "bring a book/take a book" method of sharing reading materials. 4975 Comanche Trail Stow, OH 44224 ...more