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Bethan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bethan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Bethan Gwanas’s Followers (50)
256 books
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Hi yw fy Ffrind
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2006
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Bywyd Blodwen Jones (No Felau Nawr)
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1999
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I Botany Bay
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Hi Oedd Fy Ffrind
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Cyfres Amdani: Llwybr Gwaed, Y
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Gwrach y Gwyllt
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2003
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Llinyn Trons
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2012
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Merch Y Gwyllt
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Gladiatrix
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Blodwen Jones A'r Aderyn Prin
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2001
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Bethan’s Recent Updates
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| One of the strangest, quirkiest books I've ever read. I confess I did speed-read the many bits about astrology (gormod o bwdin (too much pudding), as we say in Welsh), but there are some stand-out parts and ideas and I won't forget this wonderful, fi ...more | |
"After reading just two of her novels, I’m absolutely convinced that I have to snatch up everything Olga Tokarczuk has written. Her curious mind takes me places I want to be led, as in Flights. Her compassion and concern for the natural world, as in t"
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"The Heather Blazing takes it's title from a line in a traditional Irish folk song. But within the book there is very little blazing and if anything the fires are dying out. This is a book stuffed with metaphors. Filled up like a pinata, one sharp tap"
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"221 pages in and I'm calling it quits.
It's just OK, but I'm not enjoying it. O'Farrell employs quite a few literary tricks - writing in the second person, footnotes, articles/photos with captions - and those really rile me up. Also, the jump from nar" Read more of this review » |
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I thought I was reading a cute, imaginative children's book - for 1 chapter. I devoured the first part, absolutely loved it and told a friend who also likes magic realism 'You will love this!" How wrong was I. She would hate this. I didn't hate it at a ...more |
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| I really enjoyed this. I was enthralled, I was jealous, I was angry at the plight of the wildebeest. The authors had the adventure of a lifetime and managed to convey the magic of living with the wildlife of the Kalahari with some wonderfully vivid w ...more | |
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| I loved this novel. It's wise, compassionate and wonderful. If you need to understand the mind of a refugee or a displaced person, read this. If you think you don't need to understand, read this. Some people seem to have had difficulty with a fig tre ...more | |
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