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Ruth’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruth’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
Ruth Downie’s Followers (743)
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Ruth Downie
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February 2009
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Medicus (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #1)
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2006
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Terra Incognita (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #2)
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2008
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31 editions
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Persona Non Grata (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #3)
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2008
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28 editions
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Caveat Emptor (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #4)
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2010
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25 editions
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Semper Fidelis (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #5)
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2013
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18 editions
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Tabula Rasa (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #6)
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2014
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17 editions
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Vita Brevis (Gaius Petreius Ruso #7)
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2016
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10 editions
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Memento Mori (Gaius Petreius Ruso #8)
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2018
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8 editions
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A Year of Ravens
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2015
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Prima Facie (Gaius Petreius Ruso #7.5)
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2019
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6 editions
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Joining the 21st century
My thanks to Rob Cain of “Ancient Rome Refocused” for the chance to venture into the world of the podcast. This would have happened some years back but Rob has only now managed to wrestle the recording from the grip of a malevolent computer. I’d forgotten how interesting the conversation was, and was pleasantly surprised to find I didn’t sound as nervous as I’d felt. As an added bonus, this ep
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I'm a bit clueless about poetry but we heard the late Michael Donaghy read many years ago and very much enjoyed it. Here's a link to one of my favouri
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“One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.”
― Terra Incognita
― Terra Incognita
“I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae".”
― Terra Incognita
― Terra Incognita
“Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife”
― Terra Incognita
― Terra Incognita
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Fall Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!
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2264 | 778 | Nov 30, 2011 09:05PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Vicki's 2011 Books | 13 | 61 | Dec 10, 2011 06:01AM | |
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“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
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“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
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