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Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ryan Lee
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Member Since
July 2011
Art from my book!
Read more of this blog post »Excerpt from my book "The Exodus". books2read.com/b/The-Exodus
— Chew SY (@blackppardus.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"With hardly a glance at its surroundings, the cat moved determinedly towards the dead animal carcass, picked it up in its jaws and with a graceful bound leaped back into the jungle from whence it came, vanishing like an apparition."
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The Exodus
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| Much as the author should be respected as a pioneer in wildlife conservation for the country, through his hard work and perseverance over a career spanning decades, most of it at the top departmental position, unfortunately this memoir fell utterly f ...more | |
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| A pretty book nicely illustrated and beautiful to look at and flip through. Unfortunately the content itself isn't that appealing. Strangely the drawings appear to be that for a children's book, but the writing about obscure 'pseudo' islands is anyth ...more | |
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| Like many, I know this man via the excellent Parks and Recreation TV series, where his deadpan portrayal of the character Ron Swanson was so memorable. True to his on screen persona, the actor has mostly similar values and traits, relishing the outdo ...more | |
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| Do not be fooled by the thickness of this book, the main content is barely over half the pages, the rest being appendices and the most extensive notes I have seen for a non-academic text book. While the initial sections were interesting, introducing ...more | |
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| Malaysian children's book about local animals and environmental protection. Great effort by the author to tell a captivating story. A boy gains the ability to understand animals after eating a seed. The animals join forces to take revenge on the peop ...more | |
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| This book has two parts, the first dealing with the couple's stealing of Khmer statuary and temple carvings and their subsequent arrest and trial, the second about their involvement with the publication of a local newspaper in Vietnam. I liked the ad ...more | |
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| This remarkably enjoyable book defies conventional classification, blending meticulously researched non-fiction with believable and entertaining fictitious parts with imaginary characters. And as it falls outside of the usual subjects I read, it isn' ...more | |
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| The author has some impressive credentials, including an award for outstanding contributions from her own country for her research and advocacy work in the Amazon and the Andes. I was thus expecting a more technical account of the Neotropics, its eco ...more | |
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| I enjoyed this second book more than the first, though the rating is the same (should really be 3.5 stars). Although the series is called Singapore Saga, the stories expand beyond the shores of the island to neighboring places like Borneo, Hong Kong ...more | |
“They walked over land once forested for centuries. Farming had destroyed the trees; cities had destroyed the farms; time had destroyed the cities. The land remained, slowly covering its degradation with new plant life.”
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“An indispensable good transported to the far corners of the world, black gold had become the very vector of the industrial vascular network, the blood of human technology.”
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“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up.”
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
Goodreads Singapore
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Live in Singapore? Join us! Apart from talking about books, we have listings for author events, giveaways, and sometimes we even organize a book club ...more
Natural History & Biology
— 52 members
— last activity Mar 19, 2018 09:39PM
This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of organisms as we explore the biodiversity of the plane ...more
Happy to announce that my book 'The Exodus' is now on wattpad, where the first chapter has been published. Let me know your thoughts and please vote too.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/1770963...
Thank you!