What did you read this year?
Silvio111’s
average rating for
2024
4.7
4.7
This story is an elegant, poetic yet exactly expressed puzzle composed of multiple moving parts.
I love Andrew Sean Greer's vision. This book is as epic as his much later books about LESS are lyrical.
It requires a certain amount of mental ability to keep in mind Greta's three different lives in her three different eras. I think reading this book, like doing crossword puzzles, is probably a good preventative against dementia.
Now I want to read all ...more
I love Andrew Sean Greer's vision. This book is as epic as his much later books about LESS are lyrical.
It requires a certain amount of mental ability to keep in mind Greta's three different lives in her three different eras. I think reading this book, like doing crossword puzzles, is probably a good preventative against dementia.
Now I want to read all ...more
Instructive but depressing. Every story, from Mussolini right up to now with the Orange One, is chillingly the same. The playbook has really not changed at all.
With all due respect to Hannah Arendt, who warned us, it is so dispiriting to watch the human race (my autocorrect made the Freudian slip, "human male" there ...) make the same mistakes over and over. ...more
With all due respect to Hannah Arendt, who warned us, it is so dispiriting to watch the human race (my autocorrect made the Freudian slip, "human male" there ...) make the same mistakes over and over. ...more