Books I’ve Read
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I have ACTUALLY read!
Masterful landscapes by
#JosephSammut
7/10
#ViewssndHues
1 day ago
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I love this author 8/10
#EdnaOBrien
#AugustisaWickedMonth
3 days ago
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2
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reposted by
Books I’ve Read
Chris Fearne
4 days ago
Weekend reading:
#JacobTomsky
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Pulp. Not to my taste 5/10
#BearGrylls
#BurningAngels
6 days ago
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A gem: Political (with a small “p”) intrigue in rural China 8.5/10
#HaJin
#InthePond
7 days ago
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Lisbeth Salander: An unlikely heroine 8/10
#StiegLarsson
#TheGirlWhoPlayedwithFire
8 days ago
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My kids loved this (many moons ago) 6/10
#JeffKinney
#DiaryofaWimpyKid
9 days ago
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The
#LonelyPlanet
books have, over the years, inspired much of my travels 6/10
#GuidetoLife
10 days ago
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6
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reposted by
Books I’ve Read
Chris Fearne
11 days ago
Weekend sci-fi:
#CixinLiu
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Featuring the olfactoraly named Clovogarlix 7/10
#GoscinnyandUderzo
#AsterixandtheGoldenSickle
12 days ago
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3
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A sci-fi/horror classic from the 1960s - I read this in my teens and still remember it! 8/10
#JohnBlackburn
#AScentofNewMownHay
13 days ago
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3
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Short stories disguised as one novel 6.5/10
#KeigoHigashino
#Newcomer
14 days ago
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3
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That Didier Drogba goal!
15 days ago
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The real
#GraysAnatomy
- probably the most incredible book ever written 10/10
16 days ago
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5
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This was the first
#JohnGrisham
book I ever read 7.5/10
#ThePelicanBrief
17 days ago
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reposted by
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Chris Fearne
18 days ago
Weekend reading:
#WilliamBoyd
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5
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#ArthurMiller
was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s partly because of this 8/10
#TheCrucible
20 days ago
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A best-seller in the 1970s: adapted from the BBC documentary series 7.5/10
#JacobBronowski
#TheAscentofMan
21 days ago
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Such fun to read 8/10
#PeterFHamilton
#JudasUnchained
23 days ago
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4
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This came highly recommended- but half way in I gave it up: life is too short to read books I’m not enjoying 5/10
#ElifShafak
#ThereAreRiversintheSky
24 days ago
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reposted by
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Chris Fearne
24 days ago
Weekend reading:
#BenjaminPrado
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Ancient Rome ala
#ConnIggulden
7/10
#TheGatesofRome
26 days ago
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Written in the era of Jack the Ripper 7/10
#RobertLouisStevenson
#TheStrangeCaseofDrJekyllandMrHyde
27 days ago
1
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The colours of
#Morocco
(which by the way is not just Marrakech) 6.5/10
29 days ago
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4
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One of the very few instances when the film (which is actually quite thrilling) is better than the book 7/10
#PatriciaHighsmith
#DeepWater
about 1 month ago
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4
1
reposted by
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Chris Fearne
about 1 month ago
Weekend reading:
#IrèneNémirovsky
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The culinary (mainly French) bible 9/10
#LarousseGastronomique
about 1 month ago
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3
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Terrifying - the present danger of a Sino American war from Australia’s ex-Prime Minister 7.5/10
#KevinRudd
#TheAvoidableWar
about 1 month ago
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A comfortable but unexciting read 7/10
#RKNarayan
#TheGuide
about 1 month ago
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4
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Before Disney got hold of it, this is how I knew
#WinniethePooh
8/10
#AAMilne
about 1 month ago
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7
1
#LaurieLee
and the Spanish civil war 8.5/10
#AMomentofWar
about 1 month ago
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3
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I wouldn’t put this at the top of the
#StephenKing
list 6.5/10
#Salem’sLot
about 1 month ago
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3
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reposted by
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Chris Fearne
about 1 month ago
Weekend reading:
#EdnaOBrien
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3
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“Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows” 8/10
#AlexandreDumas
#TheCountofMonteCristo
about 1 month ago
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7
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An expensive but fascinating hobby 7/10
#TimForrest
#AntiqueChina&Silverware
about 1 month ago
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Had this at school - not the most memorable 5.5/10
#LuigiVella
#NikolGhabdul
about 1 month ago
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One of
#EvelynWaugh’s
early novels - not sure within today’s climate of political correctness 7/10
#BlackMischief
about 1 month ago
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2
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Read the book and watched the West End play - twice, the second time by mistake having forgotten I’d already seen it!! 6.5/10
#JohnBuchan
#TheThirtyNineSteps
about 1 month ago
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6
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Jemima Puddle-Duck was my kids’ favourite 8/10
#BeatrixPotter
#PeterRabbit
about 1 month ago
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3
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I must have read this over 30 years ago - the part that sticks in my mind is
#Shane’s
struggle with dislodging a stubborn tree stump from Joe Starrett’s front yard 7.5/10
#JackSchaefer
about 1 month ago
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5
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Brilliantly funny 8.5/10
#VladimirVoinovich
#TheLifeandExtraordinaryAdventuresofPrivateIvanChonkin
about 1 month ago
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Not the last to build a career on fake news! 8/10
#JohnleCarré
#TheTailorofPanama
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Books I’ve Read
Chris Fearne
about 2 months ago
Weekend reading:
#DominicFenech
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Incredible 6,000 year old megalithic temples in the sleepy village of Tarxien 7/10
#AnthonyPace
#TheTarxienTemples
about 2 months ago
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#OscarWilde
is one of my favourite authors - but this is not my favourite book 7.5/10
#ThePictureofDorianGray
about 2 months ago
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5
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1970s London from an immigrant’s perspective 7/10
#HanifKureishi
#TheBuddhaofSuburbia
about 2 months ago
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The horrific, criminal reality of FGM 8/10
#EfuaDorkenoo
#CuttingtheRose
about 2 months ago
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3
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Snoopy more famous than
#CharlieBrown
8/10
#Schulz
about 2 months ago
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3
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reposted by
Books I’ve Read
Chris Fearne
about 2 months ago
Weekend reading:
#JohnSteinbeck
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I read this 35 years ago - very little has changed in psychiatry since then 8/10
#Sim&Gordon
#BasicPsychiatry
about 2 months ago
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