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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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| Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Perhaps the best book of this particular kind of non fiction genre I've ever read. Utterly compelling from start to finish, full of twists and turns, and commentaries on different parts of human nature and modern soci ...more | |
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| A great book about the craft and business of writing from one of the art form's masters. The general tone was a bit like a book length "introduction" to one of Maugham's books, which is catnip to me, though to get the most out of this, it probably he ...more | |
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| A lovely introductory sweep to Britain's folkways, which also does a great job of expanding them beyond the island's shores, and knits together a great proposal for modern British identity. ...more | |
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| Maugham knocks it out of the park as he always does with this great meditation on morality in exotic locales. A very solid, very well written, and thoroughly diverting book. When AI really gets it together, my feeling is it's works like this it will ...more | |
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| Both page-turning true crime and a fantastic lens through which to consider modern London. Any issues I had with this book come down to personal taste. First, a slight queasiness about turning actual human tragedy into such compelling entertainment, ...more | |
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| A fun and informative look at Britain, full of facts and anecdotes, plus many snippets of etymology that are good to bring up in future conversations. At its best in the extended interview sections with the likes of Winchester Geese shaman John Const ...more | |
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| A fun and informative look at Britain, full of facts and anecdotes, plus many snippets of etymology that are good to bring up in future conversations. At its best in the extended interview sections with the likes of Winchester Geese shaman John Const ...more | |
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| A cracking read both about the life of William Blake and the world of his imagination. Immensely wide ranging for a biography and full of fun facts and anecdotes to share. | |
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| A great setting, with some real flights of brilliant, and much interesting to ponder over. The way the subject of the use/pain of forgetting is experienced both by individuals in love and by a nation is seamlessly handled. Despite its exciting fantas ...more | |
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| Brilliantly written both sentence by sentence, and in terms of structure. It's no mean feat to make a story that is fundamentally about domesticity, a child's death, and grief into a page turner, particularly when readers already know the two biggest ...more | |
