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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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Quirky - as I find his paintings. My bias is probably showing in giving this 4 stars as I wanted to like it as I like his work. This is not a great piece of literature and it meanders around, at times in a stream of consciousness fashion. Chagall may ...more |
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Quirky - as I find his paintings. My bias is probably showing in giving this 4 stars as I wanted to like it as I like his work. This is not a great piece of literature and it meanders around, at times in a stream of consciousness fashion. Chagall may ...more |
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I will try to tread carefully in my review as this is obviously a book many people think is wonderful. I didn’t. In truth, there is a lot to admire. The writing is clean and clear - it reads lightly even when touching on serious subjects. It is at tim ...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.”
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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
