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Ale Segura Jan 17, 2024

My #books read in 2023 ❤️ My top three were:
1. Gate of the sun by Elias Khoury. A heartbreaking novel about the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
2. Llamadas de Amsterdam (Calls from Amsterdam) by Juan Villoro. Great modern love story
3. Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond. Not so new but still great informative book about why some societies developed faster than others
#booklover #bookworm #read2023

Brynawel Dec 31, 2023

I read 121 #books this year. My "read" includes listening to #audiobooks, else I wouldn't manage to read that amount of books.

My favourites this year were
"The Devil And The Dark Water" by Stuart Turton",
"The Brilliant Abyss" by Helen Scales and
"American Prometheus" by Kai Bird.

The surprise of the year came in quite late: "Gray" by Leonie Swann.

I read a lot of very good books about Big Tech and Climate Change, both topics will very likely be also huge in 2024.

#Bookstodon #Read2023

Brynawel Dec 30, 2023

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Portrait Of A Murderer by Anne Meredith

#Books #Read2023 #Bookstodon

Brynawel Dec 30, 2023

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Gray by Leonie Swann

#Books #Read2023 #Audiobooks #Bookstodon

Brynawel Dec 30, 2023

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Wunderbare Weihnachten by Agatha Christie

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David K Butler (Uni of Adel)Dec 28, 2023

#read2023
The House with a Clock in its Walls, by John Bellairs.
Lewis goes to live with his uncle who turns out to be a warlock. The house’s builder has left a ticking that pervades every wall and the story gets more dramatic as they get closer to figuring out why

David K Butler (Uni of Adel)Dec 23, 2023

#read2023

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan.

Percy discovers that he is the child of one of the ancient Greek gods and therefore attracts the attention monsters of legend, so he goes to Camp Half-Blood where he is safe and can train to better protect himself. Then there is the matter of someone stealing Zeus’s lightning in order to start a war between the gods…

I really enjoyed this book.

David K Butler (Uni of Adel)Dec 17, 2023

#read2023
Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett.
People find themselves called to Holy Wood hill to become part of Moving Pictures, but where are all these strange ideas coming from, and what else might come to the Discworld too?

I read this a long long time ago and had forgotten a very large amount of it. What noticed this time were characters I love from the later books: Detritus, Gaspode, Ponder Stibbons and Windle Poons. It felt kind of like an origin story prequel and I was here for it.