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Dave’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dave’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Dave Appleby’s Followers (10)
1,500 books
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1,809 friends
110 books
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30 books
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23 books
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238 books
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389 books
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47 friends
794 books
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Dave Appleby
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Classics: good and bad
I've just finished the American classic The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The plotting is predictable, the dialogue dreadful, the characters stereotyped. A Goodreads review describes the sentences as the sort that contain three or four points within them so that you lose all sense of what the author is trying to say long before you have reached the end. Another felt as if the author was l
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| This brilliant book has all the usual hallmarks of a Cass Lynch murder mystery. Cass is now mate on a small training yacht taking a party to remote Hebridean island St Kilda where one of the customers, an influencer, disappears. After the cruise is o ...more | |
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This book is an entertaining blend of time travel, historical fiction and whodunnit. In December 2019, Eric Meek is a meek estate agent who discovers a portal in the space-time continuum which can transport him back in time. The catch is that the port ...more |
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| In terms of sheer invention, this might be one of the most creative books I have ever read. Saltburn is a set of six overlapping stories in which the weird and wonderful is everyday. Except for Stick of Rock, each story is a surreal bildungsroman of ...more | |
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When your parents get old and need help, family tensions and secrets are exposed. Jacky, a painter living in Paris, returns home to 1977 California to care for his father after his mother has had a heart attack. Then his father gets cancer and has a m ...more |
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An 'episodic' novel (constructed from linked short stories which were originally published in a series in Household Words, the magazine edited by Dickens; Mrs G made sure she plugged the editor's Pickwick Papers and his Christmas Carol). It's very ge ...more |
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A gripping true story of shipwreck and its aftermath set during the 1740s. In 1740 a squadron of eight Royal Navy ships led by Commodore George Anson set off to attack Spanish shipping during the War of Jenkin's Ear. The plan was to cross the Atlantic ...more |
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“Men play at life. They use important words like principles and duty, honour and beliefs. But women have to sort things out. Wrap up the sandwiches. Mend broken knees and broken hearts. Clean surfaces.”
― Motherdarling
― Motherdarling
“I make the morning fat. A lie in. And why shouldn’t I? I have been working half the night and now I sprawl in slightly sweat-stained sheets, delighting in the sordid luxury of wanton greasy nakedness.
I had been tempted, when the maid came in to clean, to try my borrowed Gallic charm. If I had been a younger man. But, maybe, twice-divorced, now orphaned, battered by the storms of life, I have at last learned just enough self-knowledge to perceive what she would see in me. An old man. Lecherous. At best a source of cash. So I apologised. Said I was sleeping in. Sent her away.”
― Motherdarling
I had been tempted, when the maid came in to clean, to try my borrowed Gallic charm. If I had been a younger man. But, maybe, twice-divorced, now orphaned, battered by the storms of life, I have at last learned just enough self-knowledge to perceive what she would see in me. An old man. Lecherous. At best a source of cash. So I apologised. Said I was sleeping in. Sent her away.”
― Motherdarling
“I know that my horizon is where it always has been: the far side of the street.”
― Motherdarling
― Motherdarling
