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Year: 2022

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Book Review: Trust by Domenico Starnone

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

Trust by Domenico Starnone is the second of a handful of short books that I picked up at the local library (the first was Comfort Me with Apples). PublisherR...

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Quick Take On A Short Book: Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

During a recent trip to the library, I picked up a couple of intriguing short works of fiction.  I finished the first, Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. V...

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MLK Day: A Confession and Some Links to Further Reading

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

First, the confession.  In the flush of hoping to restart the blog last year, as opposed to this year, I wrote the following: For the record, I plan to read wha...

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Graphic Novels I Read in 2021: Santa Claus, Norse Myths, the Palestinian Conflict, an Indian Robin Hood & More

Posted on January 15, 2022 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I am not a big reader of graphic novels but I do read half a dozen or so each year.  Rather than review each one individually, because I don’t have a lot ...

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My Top Five 2021 Nonfiction Reads

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

More than half of the books I read in 2021 appear to be nonfiction (tracking and math are not precise) which kind of surprised me.  But I did have a goal of rea...

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Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Having realized that the book I bought was the second book in a series, I finished A Borrowed Man and started back up with Interlibrary Loan. Hundreds of years ...

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