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Ryan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ryan Lee
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Read more of this blog post »Excerpt from my book "The Exodus". books2read.com/b/The-Exodus
— Chew SY (@blackppardus.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"With hardly a glance at its surroundings, the cat moved determinedly towards the dead animal carcass, picked it up in its jaws and with a graceful bound leaped back into the jungle from whence it came, vanishing like an apparition."
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The Exodus
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| Fortunate to stumble upon this gem by one of the outstanding natural historians of Southeast Asia, whose experience in the region spanned decades while working in the Raffles Museum of Singapore in the post war years. Tweedie also wrote two popular w ...more | |
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| Another cat book you say? Why not! Being the most popular pet in the world, with half a billion in number and counting, it is no surprise so much ink is continually being spilled about this still in many ways enigmatic animal. While the beginning sec ...more | |
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| A short memoir about the author's childhood and teenage years spent in Malaysia, going through the local school and mixing with classmates of different social classes. He also investigated his own genealogy and the path his grandparents took as migra ...more | |
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| Originally published in 1953, this book was put together by Fawcett's younger son Brian from all his notes, letters and diary entries, and therefore authored by the man himself. I came upon this amazing real life mystery from reading The Lost City of ...more | |
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| A deep dive into a little known part of WW2 history, the supply of equipment from India to China over and through some of the harshest terrain on Earth in Burma and the Himalaya. Thoroughly researched and filled with first hand accounts from the airm ...more | |
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| This collection of loosely related essays on various environment/climate related topics is a mixed bag, and more misses than hits for me unfortunately. It started off well with the first couple of chapters full of passion and summarizing our climate ...more | |
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| The focus period of this book is from the beginning of the Holocene, when Native Americans have settled into a kind of harmonious relationship with the land and wildlife of the great plains. This comes only after the end of the Ice Ages when 'archaic ...more | |
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| This book was published in conjunction with and as a detailed guide to the special exhibition of the same name held at the National Museum of Singapore. While there are three essays that reflect on the Western/European perspectives and documentation ...more | |
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| The second book begins with a little repetition as Linnaeus is again the subject in the opening chapters, but I suppose taxonomy is really the foundation upon which the main subject of this volume - evolution, is built on. No matter if you are likely ...more | |
“They walked over land once forested for centuries. Farming had destroyed the trees; cities had destroyed the farms; time had destroyed the cities. The land remained, slowly covering its degradation with new plant life.”
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“An indispensable good transported to the far corners of the world, black gold had become the very vector of the industrial vascular network, the blood of human technology.”
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“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up.”
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
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Live in Singapore? Join us! Apart from talking about books, we have listings for author events, giveaways, and sometimes we even organize a book club ...more
Natural History & Biology
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This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of organisms as we explore the biodiversity of the plane ...more
Happy to announce that my book 'The Exodus' is now on wattpad, where the first chapter has been published. Let me know your thoughts and please vote too.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/1770963...
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