Books I’ve Read
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I have ACTUALLY read!
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Weekend reading:
#MegWolitzer
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Weekend reading:#HaJin
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Weekend reading:
#EileenChang
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Doesn’t live up to the standard of Trainspotting 5.5/10
#IrvineWelsh
#Crime
about 1 month ago
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The style makes reading this heavy going 6/10
#NormanMailer
#WhyAreWeinVietnam
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
Weekend reading:
#DenisBarnham
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Tongue in cheek - repeats a bit 5/10
#ChelseaHandler
#MyHorizontalLife
about 2 months ago
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Evidently
#HelenDewitt
has a lot to say, but the structure of this book completely lost me 5/10
#TheLastSamurai
about 2 months ago
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Weekend reading:
#VasilyGrossman
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Brilliant. Urgently needs translating into English 9/10
#AlfredSant
#LaBiduLaTmiem
about 2 months ago
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Favourite reads for 2025
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2 months ago
Weekend reading:
#YuvalNoahHarari
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Where to next?!
#LonelyPlanet
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Weekend reading:
#IreneNemirovsky
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Enjoyable classic (of the so called hard-boiled genre) - originally banned in some US cities 8/10
#JamesMCain
#ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice
2 months ago
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I found this somewhat childish 4.5/10
#TaylorJenkinsReid
#Atmosphere
2 months ago
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3 months ago
Weekend reading:
#DorisLessing
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Sharp and crisp writing - should be read at one go 8/10
#PaoloCognetti
#DownintheValley
3 months ago
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5
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Not all medicine is science 7.5/10
#VSNaipaul
#TheMysticMasseur
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Weekend sci-fi:
#JamesSACorey
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Was so disappointed when I eventually realized that my childhood hero in
#TintinintheCongo
was a propaganda attempt to normalize the colonial atrocities committed in the Belgian Congo 2/10
#Herge
3 months ago
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#FrancescoZahra
: A Late Baroque 18th century artist 8/10
#KeithSciberras
3 months ago
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Not
#CixinLiu’s
best 6.5/10
#TheWanderingEarth
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Weekend Reading:
#DonDeLillo
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The definitive biography of a unique postwar leader 8/10
#MarkMontebello
#TheTailthatWaggedtheDog
3 months ago
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Had the
#IllustratedClassic
as a kid - still remember the sense of wonder and excitement
#JulesVerne
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Weekend reading:
#KimStanleyRobinson
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Pretty depressing - but than life in the middle of the Great War must have been pretty depressing too 7/10
#PatBarker
#TheEyeintheDoor
3 months ago
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10
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Light, effortless reading 6/10
#MarkoKloos
#LinesofDeparture
3 months ago
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Antonio Sciortino’s - Director of the British Academy of Arts in Rome between the wars- grand, yet never realized, project for the Unknown Soldier 7/10
#ConradThake
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Weekend reading:
#LeoPerutz
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#Regeneration
: The psychological impact -“shell shock” - of the horror of war 7.5/10
#PatBarker
3 months ago
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Forget the book cover art - the book is sensational and spawned a whole series 8/10
#ArthurCClarke
#RendezvouswithRama
4 months ago
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Harrison Ford makes a fantastic Jack Ryan in the film version 7/10
#TomClancy
#ClearandPresentDanger
4 months ago
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5
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My favourite
#Hemingway
8.5/10
#AFarewelltoArms
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Weekend reading:
#MorrisWest
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Introducing (in 1920) Hercule Poirot 7/10
#AgathaChristie
#TheMysteriousAffairatStyles
4 months ago
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Naughty but very nice 8/10
#MarioVargasLlosa
#AuntJuliaandtheScriptwriter
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Weekend reading:
#AudreyNiffenegger
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#Mauritshuis
- just the right size to visit. And has 2 of my favourite paintings: Frans Hals’ Laughing Boy and Fabritius’ Goldfinch
4 months ago
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I found the style somewhat lacking in depth 5.5/10
#AmitavGhosh
#TheGlassPalace
4 months ago
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5
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Oppenheimer meets native America 7/10
#MartinCruzSmith
#StallionGate
4 months ago
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A must read 8/10
#RichardYates
#RevolutionaryRoad
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Weekend reading:
#PatrickOBrian
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In my 20s most of my reading was out of lending libraries -
#GrahamGreene
was one of the first authors I looked for. 7/10
#TheMinistryofFear
4 months ago
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Masterful landscapes by
#JosephSammut
7/10
#ViewssndHues
4 months ago
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I love this author 8/10
#EdnaOBrien
#AugustisaWickedMonth
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Weekend reading:
#JacobTomsky
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Pulp. Not to my taste 5/10
#BearGrylls
#BurningAngels
4 months ago
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A gem: Political (with a small “p”) intrigue in rural China 8.5/10
#HaJin
#InthePond
4 months ago
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