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Chris Blocker

Literary snobbery and other thoughts by Chris Blocker

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Favorite books

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ott, Jonathan Lethem

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

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October 2019

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reviewed: Review: Grandma Gatewood's Walk

It's difficult sometimes to separate the quality of a book from the subject of the story. Grandma Gatewood's Walk is a wonder...

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail - Ben Montgomery

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100 Pages A Day...Stephanie's Book Reviews - The Glass Ocean

Sarah Blake is a best selling author who needs a new idea for a book. Her finances are in dire need after spending the money...

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BrokenTune - Reading progress update: I've read 242 out of 298 pages.

COMPARED TO ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S VIVID PRESENCE IN London, Robert Koch’s legacy is rather inconspicuous in his adopted home o...

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Hol - Books...

September 2019

18

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail - Ben Montgomery

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail Ben Montgomery

September 2019

16

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BrokenTune - Reading progress update: I've read 54 out of 386 pages.

*gasps* This has just taken on a new level. Gripping stuff!

text: The Bookmark Episode 1

Need another podcast that talks books? Check out The Bookmark. This week we talk non-fiction with Megan. Listen now

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Adam Higginbotham

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective - Kate Summerscale

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey - Candice Millard

Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays - Michael Paterniti

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

State of Wonder - Ann Patchett

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler - Lynne Olson

One Summer: America, 1927 - Bill Bryson

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Abandoned by Booklikes - Under His Eye

Aww. This was so good. I think Atwood did a wonderful job of showing us how Gilead came to be, how it was for those who lived...

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Abandoned by Booklikes - Reading progress update: I've read 1%.

September 2019

13

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail - Ben Montgomery

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail Ben Montgomery

August 2019

26

text: A slight rant: Adding books

I don't like being a complainer, but I'm finding it increasingly annoying to add new books to booklikes just about anytime I ...

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Hol - Books...

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BrokenTune - 5 Days...

reviewed: Review: Now Look What You've Done

My feelings about the second book in the Timmy Failure series largely mirrors the first. In Mistakes Were Made, quite a bit o...

Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done - Stephan Pastis

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BrokenTune - Book Haul

I arrived back home knackered and probably won't stay up late but thought I'd share a picture of the combined book haul inclu...

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