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Tony’s 2023 Year in Books
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Tony Laplume
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in Blackstone, MA, The United States
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Project Mayhem
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2013
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Pale Moonlight: A Novel
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2014
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Sapo Saga
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2016
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The Whole Bloody Affair
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2013
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Monorama
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2012
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Song Remains the Same: Mouldwarp Press Presents #2
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Miss Simon's Brute
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2016
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Yoshimi and the Shadow Clan
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2013
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The Cloak of Shrouded Men:escapades of T
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2007
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Barbarian Translation - The Trojan War: Mouldwarp Press Presents #3
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A Journal of the Pandemic #36: A Conclusion
Back in 2020, the pandemic for me began with the cancellation of a family reunion. I’m happy to report we finally got around to making up for that.
COVID is still circulating. At my workplace it was running kind of rampant (as much as it can these days) in recent weeks, so obviously it’s not going away anytime soon.
The good news is that life is pretty much back to normal, where it was before all t
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| Having only just finally read The Ladies of Grace Adieu in September, I was pleasantly surprised to learn I had a fourth Susanna Clarke to enjoy very soon afterward, which was of course The Wood at Midwinter. Clarke is easily one of my favorite autho ...more | |
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In five hundred years no one will care anymore about Howard Jacobson or his opinion of The Merchant of Venice than today anyone would the typical petulant, uncultured student laboring over Shakespeare. Sometimes it takes until very deep in a book to ...more |
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| I mean, I get it. But Lilliam Rivera wastes no time exploring why Jessica Cruz and family are undocumented, only the anxiety she feels because of it, and how she fights back. Doesn’t feel like a complete story. | |
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I have a copy elsewhere, but here I found one at the library, and decided to read it again. The ‘90s were a boom period for Superman, the so-called triangle era when he had four ongoing series chronicling his exploits, often in arcs that crossed betwe ...more |
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| Inside my copy is the receipt for when I originally purchased it, a fact I forgot until it fluttered out once while I was reading. I was working at Borders, 4/8/11, about five months before my location, and the business in general, closed forever. I ...more | |
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NAEYC is one of the leading bodies in childcare and early education. But this guidebook does a poor job of explaining how. Far too often material of this kind seems to have been generated strictly from inner city programs (for that matter, social comm ...more |
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| When I discovered Bolaño, I found my favorite author. When I spotted Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow, I read one of the greatest literary achievements I’ve yet experienced. Funny enough, I banked Vásquez around the same point, but have only now gotten ar ...more | |
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The three-star rating is pretty much for Dan DiDio, but also Dave Wielgosz. A couple months ago I had the pleasure of having a conversation with DiDio at a convention, during which he brought up the story he had coming up in this little anthology, wh ...more |
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So this is why I don’t read a lot of this pop fiction. I did read the whole book. Gerritsen got me that far. But I felt cheated. Very, very cheated. And very, very uninterested in reading more. So I don’t read a lot of pop mystery books. So I never re ...more |
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| Robin is my favorite comic book character. It was Robin before I knew all that much, before I ever read a comic book, before I had any clue that the Robin who the papers reported died wasn’t the original. So when I started reading comics, I got into ...more | |
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― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.”
― The Invention of Morel
― The Invention of Morel
“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie
― Tuesdays with Morrie
“Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
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Mercyhurst was a pretty great community to be a part of for a year. I can only wonder what it would've been like for three more. I've never experienced a school merger. Erie itself was pretty great, reminded me a lot of my native Maine. I'm always working on something! Hope post collegiate life has treated you well.
Hi, Tony! Thanks for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! I hope you're well and having a great week. I'm glad you spent a year in Erie, PA, how did you like it? How did you like Mercyhurst? I attended Villa Maria College and Gannon University (during their merger--was accepted at both, started at Villa, graduated from Gannon. Have you ever lived through a school or college/university merger?). Well, happy reading, writing, and everything else, and all the best for future projects! Have a good day. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
