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25 Word Book Reviews
Back in the old days, the editors writing product reviews at Amazon used to pay extra attention to their first 25 words. The review might be several paragraphs in total…
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Top 10 Books of 2025
2025 was a great year of reading. Here are my ten favorite, with #25wordbookreviews.
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Top 10 Books of 2024
So many times during this year I felt like I was in a reading rut, like I just couldn’t get into a good book, but here at the end of…
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God of the Woods by Liz Moore
I was up late racing to find out what happened to Barbara Van Laar after she went missing in the woods at her family’s estate/summer camp. #5stars #25wordbookreview
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My top books of the 21st Century
I love reading Best of lists. I don’t expect to agree with them (I don’t think that’s the point) but I love the exercise of trying to rank and rate…
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Sloane Crossley’s Grief is for People
I read this Cory Doctorow piece the other day on how his digital blog acts as his searchable, connectable commonplace notebook and it made me want to go back to…
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Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
A novel about the ultra-rich, which I would normally despise. However this author doesn’t hate her characters, which made me not hate them. Really good. #25wordbookreview
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Love, Life and Writing by Jennifer Weiner
I love Jennifer Weiner’s fiction but this isn’t quite as compelling. This covers her whole life but doesn’t get into writing the way I’d hoped. #25wordbookreviews
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All About Love by bell hooks
This is my first book by bell hooks and won’t be my last. It’s 25 years old and a bit dated, as to be expected. #25wordbookreviews “I think that part…
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The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
First time I read this I thought she hadn’t had enough distance to properly digest what had happened but now I think it was just me. #25wordbookreview
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