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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Richard Newton
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Learning to be choosy!
A good friend of my recently bought me a year’s subscription to the Literary Review. For anyone who does not know this magazine, it’s published monthly in English and contains a series of fairly detailed reviews of recently published books. There is a bit more to the magazine than that, but 90%+ is book reviews.
There seem to be no specific genres it focuses on. In my first month’s edition there a Read more of this blog post »
There seem to be no specific genres it focuses on. In my first month’s edition there a Read more of this blog post »
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A popular novel with stellar reviews, that I found to be, if honest, a little dull. There are some good points. It is clearly written. It has an interesting storyline, which revolves around gaming and the production of various computer games. That's a ...more |
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"What a great book. This long and most intimate portrait of the life inside Stalin’s close circle is as brilliant and well-researched as it is often disturbing and chilling.
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A recollection of a childhood of camping holidays in the 1970s. Well written, and at times very funny. I like to be amused when reading, but it's rare for me to laugh out loud, yet I did a couple of times on reading this book. The problem is that I fo ...more |
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is on page 162 of 600 of The Letters of William Gaddis: Easily amongst the best collections of letters I’ve had the fortune to encounter. Gaddis in Paris should have provided a shelf of secondary literature by now.
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Not my kind of book, but I enjoyed your review.
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Almost brilliant but flawed and I feel 4 stars is me being a little generous - 3.5 if I could. As soon as I started reading this I thought, oh this is interesting, here is a different voice. And the author certainly has a unique style. At times like l ...more |
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
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“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
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“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Thanks Richard, look forward to more of your reviews.
Hi Richard, I´m happy to welcome you on board. There are some great works I would never venture into reviewing but I do appreciate the people who do.
Looking forward to see what you will be reading.
Brgds Jacob
