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2024
My Year in Books
16,388
pages read
50
books read


Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan
Shortest Book
65
pages
Intertwined Lives by Lois W. Banner
Longest Book
576
pages

Average book length in 2024
327
pages

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Most Shelved
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Intertwined Lives by Lois W. Banner
Least Shelved
664
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Silvio111’s average rating for 2024
4.7
4.7

An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.53 average

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer

Silvio111’s first review of the year

it was amazing
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
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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
it was amazing
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Highly Effective Detective by Richard Yancey
Intertwined Lives by Lois W. Banner
Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan
Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
it was amazing
Central Park West by James B. Comey
Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney
Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonough
The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
it was amazing
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Westport by James B. Comey
Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich
James by Percival Everett
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
The Editor by Sara B. Franklin
Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
The Disappearing L by Bonnie J. Morris
it was amazing
Traveling by Ann Powers
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Saved by a Song by Mary  Gauthier
George Harrison by Philip Norman
A Place of Our Own by June Thomas
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Shanghai by Joseph Kanon
it was amazing
The Good German by Joseph Kanon
The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood
Baltimore Noir by Laura Lippman
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Florida by Lauren Groff
Gumbo Limbo by Tom Corcoran
We Are As Gods by Kate Daloz
Beverly Hills Spy by Ronald Drabkin
Wrecker by Carl Hiaasen
it was amazing
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman
Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Silvio111’s last review of the year

really liked it
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.
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