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Ryan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
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| Solid premise, but ultimately overwrought and overly descriptive. Characters never have a chance to breathe because the book editor keeps on insisting Mason connect everything. The Osgood sisters and the last two chapters save it. | |
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“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.�
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This is a 3.8 rounded. Some fantastic, otherworldly writing in here. But also, hm, not totally sure of meaning, esp in a handful of particularly dreamy passages. I think it’s: “all horrors are dulled by routine.� ie, be better, do better, don’t hide � ...more |
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| Painfully boring until page 260, when Naomi appears. And by that point there’s 14 pages left, so not sure what to do with that. It’s impossible to care about the narrator. I get that he’s supposed to be whiny and annoying and self-hating, but it just ...more | |
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“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
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