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Judith’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Judith’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Judith Works
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Why did I marry my first husband?
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Coins in the Fountain: A Midlife Escape to Rome
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2011
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A World of Joy (ASMSG Collections #5)
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City of Illusions
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2014
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3 editions
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The Measure of Life
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Madam Pele’s Handiwork
Some days ago I marveled at the photos of the goddess Pele’s display of power in the caldera of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. The park guide tells visitors about how Pele traveled many leagues from the northern-most islands guided by her favorite brother Kamohoali‘i who was also a guardian shark. Having traveled for many miles from Kahiki in search of a suitable home for
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| This novella is surely one of the most sensitive and emotionally moving stories about how love can develop in hardship and the understanding of one person for another's needs. The setting is on an island not quite as barren as the Arctic - very littl ...more | |
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| An elegantly written novel about the power of love set in the dark world of espionage, revenge, and the immemorial and never-ending basic human desire that some have for war that makes up human history as recounted in the greatest literature. The aut ...more | |
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| I really liked this book for two reasons - the lush descriptions of Burma as only travel writer Paul Theroux can convey, and the deep delve into the mind of young Eric Blair, sent to work for the British colonial police in 1922. The rapaciousness of ...more | |
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| I found this story fascinating with the conflict between religion and science, economics, and political reality. Who is right? Who should have the say over the land and its richness? How can you know the outcome of your actions and who will be hurt a ...more | |
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| This is another story of exile: in this case three Libyan young men who are able to escape the miseries of Ghaddafi's misrule. The protagonist, was shot and seriously wounded during a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy in London (a real eve ...more | |
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| This story, partly based on the author's family is about exile. We follow a family who have physical homes and doing well economically but are homeless in the sense of having lost their connection to the town and country where they had settled for ma ...more | |
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| I love this little memoir that takes me on a tour of beautiful Siena, its art, architecture, and surrounding countryside. The concept of spending a month in a beautiful city as a means for recovery from a very intense period of life is a wonderful id ...more | |
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Judith Works
voted for
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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Readers' Favorite History & Biography
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Opening Round
of the
2024 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards.
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All the Way to Italy: A modern tale of homecoming through generations past
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A lyrical homage to Italy, family, and home. The author captures the spirit of Italy in her quest to unearth and comprehend the complexities of family
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“...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both.”
― City of Illusions
― City of Illusions
“Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.”
― City of Illusions
― City of Illusions
“In the late afternoon we sat on a ledge and watched the sun set in the west and a full moon rise in the east, as they always have, no matter what lies beneath the light—whether more of the world’s horrors, the possibilities of peace, or my comfortable, well-fed life”
― Coins in the Fountain: A Midlife Escape to Rome
― Coins in the Fountain: A Midlife Escape to Rome
“Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Something Rotten
― Something Rotten
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Jabberwocky and Other Poems
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Jabberwocky and Other Poems
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