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2024
My Year in Books
6,742
pages read
20
books read


Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants by Mathias Énard
Shortest Book
154
pages
Bomber by Len Deighton
Longest Book
4
pages

Average book length in 2024
337
pages

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Most Shelved
1,341,354
people also shelved
In the Company of Eagles by Ernest K. Gann
Least Shelved
453
people also shelved

Laurent’s average rating for 2024
3.9
3.9

Lancaster by John  Nichol
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.48 average

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Laurent’s first review of the year

liked it
I was really enjoying this book until I got to the chapter about alcohol, which just made me want to take a shower; it was just wrong and icky.

Essentially Gladwell's contention is that if you're intoxicated, you get a free pass. The chapter mainly revolves around the Stanford student Brock Turner case. Gladwell basically says, the kid was blind drunk, it wasn't his fault.

If that's not gross enough, Gladwell doesn't mention at all the other reas
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³¢´¡±«¸é·¡±·°Õ’S 2024 BOOKS
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence  Anthony
Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain
it was amazing
20.000 leguas de viaje submarino by Javier Laborda López
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque
Bomber by Len Deighton
Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
A Broken People's Playlist by Chimeka Garricks
In the Company of Eagles by Ernest K. Gann
it was amazing
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Lancaster by John  Nichol
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Miles from Nowhere by Barbara Savage
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants by Mathias Énard
really liked it
Taking Fire by Ron Alexander
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