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Thomas’s 2023 Year in Books
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Thomas Maltman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Panama City, Florida, The United States
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Influences
Dostoevesky, Stephen King, John Gardner, JRR Tolkien
Member Since
July 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/tommaltman
The Farm, the Storm, and Instagram
The best camera I have ever owned is not a camera, but my i-Phone. Linked with the popular app Instagram, I've been able to take decent photographs, though I am a raw amateur when it comes to photography. The following shots were taken on a small farm owned and operated by my in-laws and they show what I love about life in rural Minnesota. This first shot is of the garden and trellis. We visi
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Little Wolves
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The Night Birds
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2007
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The Land
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2020
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Welcome to Effham Falls: Tales form a Small Town
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Night Birds
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Ashes to Ashes
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Thomas’s Recent Updates
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| Ordinary monsters is an extraordinary read for lovers of dark, gaslit fantasy, a broody book that brims with horror and wonder in equal measure. | |
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| Somehow I missed when Emma Torzs visited campus, but over summer I picked up a copy of her book. This is simply the best urban fantasy I've read in a long time, and it's written by a local writer. I love that this novel is about magic in books and th ...more | |
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| This book ranks lower on Goodreads than North Woods, but in many ways I found it a more fully satisfying reading experience. (And I gave North Woods five stars.) The best compliment I can give a book is that I know I'll reread it. The Winter Soldier ...more | |
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| I returned to this book after many years and loved it even more on a reread. This one deserves to stand alongside the very best fables such as Watership Down and Charlotte's Web. ...more | |
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| I'm on a reading roll here since this is the second novel I read this month that I absolutely loved. (The other was Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse.) North Woods is one of those novels that reminds of the spirit-haunted world we inhabit, not just th ...more | |
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| Leif Enger’s I CHEERFULLY REFUSE is the best novel I’ve read all year and my favorite of his four novels. (I loved Peace Like a River so much that I read it twice.) It is at once his bleakest novel and his most hopeful: Enger’s vision of a dystopian ...more | |
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| Leif Enger’s I CHEERFULLY REFUSE is the best novel I’ve read all year and my favorite of his four novels. (I loved Peace Like a River so much that I read it twice.) It is at once his bleakest novel and his most hopeful: Enger’s vision of a dystopian ...more | |
“In birth all things are kindred, the sounds we make universal to any species. We enter wailing of a lost world.”
― Little Wolves
― Little Wolves
Polls
April is mystery/thriller month. Voting will be open until March 10.
The Owl Killers (Medieval mystery)
Karen Maitland
Karen Maitland
Heart of Deception (historical mystery)
M.L. Malcolm
M.L. Malcolm
Little Wolves (mystery/thriller)
Thomas Maltman
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.”
― Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
― Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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Here you can list the books that you tried for the heck of it and ended up liking it. These are the books that you were either forced to read either f ...more
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Thanks for Night Birds. I loved the book very much. Looking forward to reading another book of yours. Keep writing, and I will keep reading!
Hi Thomas,Thanks for the invitation to join you in Good Reads. I hope there are lots of people still finding your book, Night Birds, and enjoying it. I recommended it to one of our area book clubs and they'll be reading it in February. I also have someone with an advance order in for your NEXT book. Is there a title for it yet? He thought it was going to be titled Little Wolves. I am currently reading Red Mandarin Dress; the fifth book in a mystery series set in China and at the same time the marvelous and funny Heart in the Right Place. The upcoming book (January 2009) I'm most excited to recommend to my Bookin' It customers is Malla Nunn's A Beautiful Place to die.
Laura Hansen, Bookin' It Little Falls, MN
www.bookinitontheweb.com
Dear Grace,
Thank you for your kind words about The Night Birds and for taking the time to write. Warm wishes,
Tom