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Monday, March 30, 2026

Books Read in 2025

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I was putting these summaries in pages, but I don't think my nonexistent subscribers look there, and so I have decided to use posts inst...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

"Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen" by Hallie Rubenhold,

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  A couple of years ago I read Erik Larson's  Thunderstruck , about the hunt for and capture of H. H. Crippen. That book focused on the ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

"If--", "Boots", and "Bill 'Awkins" by Rudyard Kipling - poems and stories

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"If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs..." -- If--  by Rudyard Kipling I spent a lot of time pulling boo...

"Mother Mary Comes to Me" Arundhati Roy

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“I remember thinking that no matter how long and hard we fought, in India no woman of any religion, class, caste, or creed would ever feel s...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

"Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea

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“Irene threw her things into the back of the truck and pressed in beside them. The Allies were beating the Germans back across the Siegfried...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet", "A Closed and Common Orbit", "Record of a Spaceborn Few", and "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within" by Becky Chambers

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For once, I started a series at book 1. I heard about Becky Chambers from various BookTubers, but I didn't keep track of which ones. Whe...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

"Transcription" by Kate Atkinson

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“Juliet felt slighted yet relieved. It was curious how you could hold two quite opposing feelings at the same time, an unsettling emotional ...
Monday, February 16, 2026

"Holy Orders" by Benjamin Black - aka John Banville

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“Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.” ― Benjamin Black , Holy Orders What is so fascinating about Ir...