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Robert’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Robert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Not that I know of, but I have had books disappear and then reappear a few days later, so I’m not shocked it happened. Glad you’re back.
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Robert Sheard
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Is a River Alive?
by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Nonfiction |
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| Michelle de Kretser’s Theory & Practice left me genuinely conflicted, in ways that are probably inseparable from my own history. The novel’s academic setting overlaps with my years in an English PhD program, and its send-up of theory-saturated litera ...more | |
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I’m generally wary of memoirs. Too often they tip into self-indulgence or name-dropping, mistaking proximity to events for insight. Geraldine Brooks’s Memorial Days is something else entirely. Written after the sudden death of her husband, Tony Horwit ...more |
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Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Memoir |
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| Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June was an absolute pleasure to read. Tyler has always had an instinct for the quiet fault lines that run through families, and here she once again turns a seemingly small domestic crisis into something vivid and deeply hu ...more | |
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| Katie Kitamura’s Audition is one of those novels that critics seem to adore, but I found myself on the outside looking in. The book’s structure—sliding between competing versions of events, narrated by someone we already know is unreliable—aims to in ...more | |
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| Miriam Toews’ A Truce That Is Not Peace is a memoir shaped by the question writers are constantly asked: Why do you write? What begins as a casual inquiry becomes, for Toews, an excavation of grief, memory, and the long echo of her sister’s suicide. ...more | |
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| Abdulrazak Gurnah was one of the first contemporary African novelists I read seriously back in the 1990s, and Paradise—his Booker-shortlisted breakthrough—has stayed with me ever since. Coming to Theft with that long memory, I found it engaging but u ...more | |
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Robert Sheard
voted for
Mark Twain
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Readers' Favorite History & Biography
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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