What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
175
pages
Longest Book
656
pages
Average book length in
2024
308
pages
Most Shelved
2,188,690
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
138
people
also shelved
Bruce’s
average rating for
2024
3.3
3.3
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.33
average
Bruce’s first review of the year
it was amazing
Down the years, in answer to the question “What is the best book you have read?� I have generally answered without hesitation, A Tale of Two Cities.
Having revisited it, I’m not quite so confident of my assessment. Perhaps I had succumbed to the temptation to over-mark, early in my reading career.
The dark horrors of the French Revolution are hauntingly portrayed � and, indeed, I would suggest that Paris actually gets more like one-and-a-half, and ...more
Having revisited it, I’m not quite so confident of my assessment. Perhaps I had succumbed to the temptation to over-mark, early in my reading career.
The dark horrors of the French Revolution are hauntingly portrayed � and, indeed, I would suggest that Paris actually gets more like one-and-a-half, and ...more
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Bruce’s last review of the year
really liked it
Hide My Eyes is book sixteen in Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion series, published in 1958 and set in London of about the same time, although the atmospherics are redolent of the gentleman sleuth’s formative years, beginning in 1929.
For the fan of Campion it is perhaps a touch disappointing � while he is present throughout, his is largely a supporting role and he hovers in the shadows, giving the occasional insightful nudge to the police detect ...more
For the fan of Campion it is perhaps a touch disappointing � while he is present throughout, his is largely a supporting role and he hovers in the shadows, giving the occasional insightful nudge to the police detect ...more
What did you read this year?
