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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 Hall
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A prison?
Photo Prompt © Carol Carr
It’s not a prison now, but it was a kind of prison in the past.
I was only a kid, and I had been eavesdropping, but this time this was something more important. Dad and granddad had been talking quite quietly, but their voices became louder. I couldn’t understand what they said. It didn’t make sense to me.
I’d mostly forgotten about all of this, but something triggered i
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Chris Hall
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Kath B's review
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The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History:
"This is an exceptionally well put together historical perspective of Sicily that also manages to capture the melancholic and brooding atmosphere that pervades the island and provides some of the reasons for this.
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Gretchen Bernet-Ward's review
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The Unquiet Grave (Cormac Reilly #4):
"Author Dervla McTiernan has a way with words and the characters who use them, totally believable and fascinating. Each of her characters shine in their own way, some are likeable and some I never want to meet, but all are integral to the story. Of co"
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"The opening pages of this political crime thriller commence with a shocking scene and events go backwards to when two men, Charlie and Sebastian, first meet at school and become firm friends. Now they both work for government in Canberra. One more se"
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Chris Hall
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Kath B's review
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The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2):
"The second Harry Bosch book maintains the rapid pace of the first and sees Harry, once again, in dispute with his boss and his team as he attempts to bring to justice the Los Angeles supplier of black ice, a newly concocted drug now available on the "
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What a wonderful book, and this was the last of the three, known as the Sticks in the Bundle series. The protagonist, the clever Eshile, was now a young woman. Their family was back in Soweto, but now in a rather better house and there was more money ...more |
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What a wonderful book, and this was the last of the three, known as the Sticks in the Bundle series. The protagonist, the clever Eshile, was now a young woman. Their family was back in Soweto, but now in a rather better house and there was more money ...more |
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Hi Kath, I must read this, it looks great, and I used to live in York as well. I have read several books written by Kate Atkinson.
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“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
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“Several colourful parrots were in a shrub arguing over nectar from beautiful red flowers — bottle brush, she thought.”
― When Jacarandas Bloom
― When Jacarandas Bloom
“Our greatest creation is our selves. The way we cultivate our appearance and behavior. And nowhere is our artwork more apparent than in our own minds. They way we each have an idea of self. The one perfect self we've chosen by rejecting all other options.”
― The Invention of Sound
― The Invention of Sound
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Long Walk to Freedom
― Long Walk to Freedom
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Friend request happily accepted, and I shall keep an eye on your books and reviews. Cheers
Look forward to seeing what you're reading too!