What did you read this year?
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Longest Book
509
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Average book length in
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316
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Leo’s
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it was amazing
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Leo’s first review of the year
really liked it
This review refers to "The Solitary Elephant and Other Tales"
I really enjoyed this somewhat quirky collection of stories, inspired, I assume, by the colourful life of the author.
Quite thoughtfully, the first story is the most poignant. Writing in the first person, he tells of the difficulty of getting on with life after the recent death of his wife. He holidays in Kerala, India, at the invitation of a colleague. He tells the tale in a quiet and p ...more
I really enjoyed this somewhat quirky collection of stories, inspired, I assume, by the colourful life of the author.
Quite thoughtfully, the first story is the most poignant. Writing in the first person, he tells of the difficulty of getting on with life after the recent death of his wife. He holidays in Kerala, India, at the invitation of a colleague. He tells the tale in a quiet and p ...more
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Leo’s last review of the year
really liked it
Upon completion of this book - and it took some time to get through - I have felt a definite sense of affinity with Raymond for the road less travelled.
Like all self-actualisation books, and I have written one myself, there is inevitably some trauma in the author's life history which he or she needs to express. In an age when the publishing process has become democratised and universally accessible there has been a flood of memoirs and books on ...more
Like all self-actualisation books, and I have written one myself, there is inevitably some trauma in the author's life history which he or she needs to express. In an age when the publishing process has become democratised and universally accessible there has been a flood of memoirs and books on ...more
What did you read this year?
