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DBRL_AbbeyR

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Daniel Boone Regional Library

I've always agreed with Albert Einstein: i...Read More

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I've always agreed with Albert Einstein: imagination is more important than knowledge. It doesn't displace knowledge, but our scientific and cultural evolutions all happen where imagination and knowledge intersect. I guess that's why I love science fiction. You can't build it unless you dream it.

Specializations

Audiobooks, with a focus on good narration.
Kanopy streaming service

Areas of Interest

science fiction
horror
gothic novels
old fashioned mysteries
Police procedurals make me ill.

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DBRL_AbbeyR added a title to their Completed shelf Feb 03 2021

Lovecraft Country

Ruff, Matt

Critically acclaimed cult novelist Matt Ruff makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror...

DBRL_AbbeyR added a title to their Completed shelf Feb 03 2021

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Clarke, Susanna

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England-until the reclusive Mr...

DBRL_AbbeyR added a title to their Completed shelf Feb 03 2021

The Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Inspired by The Hobbit, and begun in 1937, The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy that Tolkien created to provide "the necessary background of history for Elvish tongues." From these academic aspirations was born one of the most popular and...