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Brian’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Brian’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Brian Jay Jones
Goodreads Author
Born
Kansas City, KS, The United States
Website
Twitter
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Influences
Robert Caro, Alan Moore, David Halberstam, Harvey Kurtzman, David McCu
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Member Since
July 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/brianjayjones
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Jim Henson: The Biography
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2013
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24 editions
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George Lucas: A Life
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2016
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36 editions
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
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2019
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2 editions
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Washington Irving: An American Original
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2007
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8 editions
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
The Streak Is Over
And there we have it. After four years of staying COVID free, I finally came down with it over the weekend.
Fortunately, I’m vaxxed and boosted, so it seems that, so far, I’ve escaped with just a very minor case: aching neck and shoulders, an annoying cough, but not much else. I think I’ve had it since Friday, as I woke up that day feeling just slightly . . . off. But heck, I wouldn’t even have
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Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases
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King: A Life
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“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.' - Jim”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
― Jim Henson: The Biography
“When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little bit better for my being here."
And he did.”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
And he did.”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
“When Jim left the planet so suddenly, all of us who loved him, worked with him, were inspired by him, gathered in New York City. We were like dandelion seeds clinging to the stem and to each other. And on May 16th, [the day Jim died] the wind began to blow. There’s no stem any more. We’re all floating on the breeze. And it’s scary and exhilarating, and there’s nothing we can do about it. But gradually, we’ll all drift to the ground and plant ourselves. And no matter what we grow into, it’ll be influenced by Jim. We’re Jim’s seeds. And it’s not only those of us who knew him. Everyone who was touched by his work is a Jim-seed.”
― Jim Henson: The Biography
― Jim Henson: The Biography
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| Fiction Fanatics: July's Genre - Goodreads Choice Award winners | 13 | 74 | May 27, 2014 02:59AM | |
| You'll love this ...: Marnie's Chain of Chunksters 2014 | 80 | 88 | Jul 23, 2014 11:46AM | |
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.”
― Tales of a Traveller
― Tales of a Traveller
“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)”
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(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)”
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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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