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Lewis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lewis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Lewis Woolston
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The Last Free Man and Other Stories
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Remembering the Dead and Other Stories
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The Everlasting and Other Stories
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Riverton Library
If anyone lives in Perth, Riverton Library now has a copy of "The Everlasting and Other Stories" available for borrowing.
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" He had not fought the evil side of society; he was not even sure what it was. He had merely fought. It left him with an awful sense of frustration, because in his case society, too, had been fighting blindly and helplessly.
Jack Levitt is a rebel wi" Read more of this review » |
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"TLDR: All copies of this book should be burned.
After I read Hemingway's *A Moveable Feast* in college, I had the strongest feeling of missing out in the world. I kept asking myself: "Why was I not alive in the right time to experience this gathering " Read more of this review » |
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John Anthony's review
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Henry Williamson: The Artist As Fascist:
"I found this a very interesting read, despite the author’s pejorative tone.
Williamson was a man of his time. Born in 1895, he spent 4 years in the trenches. Here he encountered the socialism of comradeship. This was taken a stage further with the Ch" Read more of this review » |
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"i saw this on a random outspokenly racist guy's page and i was curious based on the premise and the kind of praise it was getting. went in on a whim, with neutral/good expectations.
my arbitrarily high hopes were thrown into doubt right away with a cl" Read more of this review » |
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I used to read Tim Winton like 20 years ago but as i've read more widely and gotten older I find him rather shallow, childish and basic. I saw the ess
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One of the coldest, bleakest and yet somehow most riveting books i've read in years. Elizabeth has come back to Ireland, she worked as nurse in London during the war and experienced a bit more of life than what provincial, Catholic Ireland could offe ...more |
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An excellent record of a state that was once almost at the centre of world affairs but which now exists only in memory and history books. The GDR managed to last 41 years during the worst of the Cold War and a divided Europe. This book takes you thro ...more |
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“Free birds looking over the grave of a free man. Fucking poetic and all that.”
― The Last Free Man and Other Stories
― The Last Free Man and Other Stories
“Perhaps it is sad that his entire life will be summed up here in my little story, but if you think about it, the majority of people don't even get that.”
― The Last Free Man and Other Stories
― The Last Free Man and Other Stories
“We haven't amounted to much, have we? All these years of drifting around and we're not much better off than when we started.”
― The Last Free Man and Other Stories
― The Last Free Man and Other Stories
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“You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not born, whether he lived or ceased to live. Life was insignificant and death without consequence. Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders: it seemed to him that the last burden of responsibility was taken from him; and for the first time he was utterly free. His insignificance was turned to power, and he felt himself suddenly equal with the cruel fate which had seemed to persecute him; for, if life was meaningless, the world was robbed of its cruelty. What he did or left undone did not matter. Failure was unimportant and success amounted to nothing. He was the most inconsiderate creature in that swarming mass of mankind which for a brief space occupied the surface of the earth; and he was almighty because he had wrenched from chaos the secret of its nothingness. Thoughts came tumbling over one another in Philip's eager fancy, and he took long breaths of joyous satisfaction. He felt inclined to leap and sing. He had not been so happy for months.
'Oh, life,' he cried in his heart, 'Oh life, where is thy sting?”
― Of Human Bondage
'Oh, life,' he cried in his heart, 'Oh life, where is thy sting?”
― Of Human Bondage
“I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
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