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Bryan’s 2023 Year in Books
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Bryan speaking on digital storytelling in Burlington
I'll be speaking on a panel about digital storytelling next month. It's Saturday, 9/24, at the Burlington Book Festival. Stop by!
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Storytelling-the ability to describe a world beyond the present moment-may be the defining feature and crowning achievement of our species. Nearly everyone is a storyteller, but those who tell stories with great
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The Duel and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
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"the frustrations and boredom that for so many characterizes ordinary life and the vast, echoing spaces between people" - yes! That's perfect.
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"These six stories - like everything by Chekhov, IMHO - have as much to say to the reader about the human condition as anything that has been written since. He is the master at capturing the frustrations and boredom that for so many characterizes ordi"
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"When you begin reading this short novel of the summer of 1928 in the life of a 12-year-old boy, his brother, and others in their family and their small town in Illinois, you might well expect an exercise in nostalgia. This short novel, in which Bradb"
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"One of those books where two pages in you know you'll love it, and you'll probably want to read everything the author has written. The voice is that engaging.
Buehlman writes the shit out of this book. The prose is masterful without being showy. The " Read more of this review » |
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I have tried reading this at various times in my life and finally gotten to finish it. What an odd, lovely novel it is. It feels more important for its place in sf history than on its own terms. Out of the Silent Planet takes a British academic to Mar ...more |
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A Quiet Life
by William Cooper (Goodreads Author)
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome - and nowhere else, because any other book would catch fire and explode from the awesome - and by its awesomeness it would be known from now until the crack of doom.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you -- while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although every word and phrase indicated approval, somehow the sum of the whole was that you'd have to be a mental pygmy to come up with this plan and a complete fucking idiot to pursue it.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“The boy reported - after the Sergeant had slept for a few hours, which was not nearly enough - that YouTube had actually gone down for ten minutes under the weight of traffic. The story was truly global, truly immense: not Obama, not Justin Bieber, not Psy and not Bin Laden had ever touched this, he said. Not Khaled Saeed and not Mohamed Bouazizi, either. If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of 50 Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
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