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Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Chris Newens
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January 2015
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| Frankly about as perfectly written as a book can get. Full of mystery, tension, and heart-wrenching emotion, as well as being a meditation on the profoundest of themes. Sped through it in a couple of sittings. Believe the hype. | |
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| Profound, moving, and astonishingly researched. An unusual, hypnotic -- and sometimes heavy going -- book, which transports the reader back in time, and attempts to get inside the head of a living god. | |
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| Profound, moving, and astonishingly researched. An unusual, hypnotic -- and sometimes heavy going -- book, which transports the reader back in time, and attempts to get inside the head of a living god. | |
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| A great fun, gossipy account of Hemingway's rise & all things Lost Generation in Paris. Absolute catnip for me. I flew through it! Also a great book about writerly ambition more generally and the reality of what it takes to become an icon. ...more | |
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| Wonderful, sad, uplifting. Intensely human and very political. A fantastic book. | |
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| The best Roberto Bolano novel since 2666. | |
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| An astounding and beautiful book offering remarkable insight into an alien yet familiar world. | |
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| Every bit as brilliant as all of the praise surrounding it suggests. Reminiscent of Milan Kundera for the directness of its literature, offering a stunning kaleidoscope of ideas, stories, and locations. It's also a deeply Australian work, expounding ...more | |
