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2023 Year in Review
I like stats and numbering things, so let me do a quick numerical recap of my year of reading books. Total Books read : 75 Fiction books read : 27 Non-Fiction books read : 48 Total pages read : 25 386 pages Average number of pages per book : 338.5 Average pages read per day…
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Assassin’s Quest, by Robin Hobb
Finally, I have finished this very long book. It took me more than a month! Not only because it’s a long read (760+ pages, tiny letters, small margins, etc.), but because my reading habits have shifted significantly for a couple of reasons. In the end, I can say it was worth it. As the third…
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Insoluble mais vrai! par David Louapre
Friand comme je le suis de chaines YouTube de vulgarisation scientifique, je suis éventuellement tombé sur la chaine française Science Étonnante. Bien que le style de celle-ci soit un peu plus mesuré et réservé que j’en ai l’habitude, il demeure que la qualité des explications est superbe. Bref, lorsque j’ai croisé cet ouvrage dans la…
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Raising Critical Thinkers, by Julie Bogart
While there is a seemingly infinite number of issues facing education at the present, I would argue none is more pressing than equipping this young generation with the necessary critical thinking skills to navigate the world. At this point, it’s annoyingly cliché to point out the over-abundance of information circulating on the Internet, and resorting…
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An Immense World, by Ed Yong
Every so often a book comes along that is so unbelievably interesting that I have absolutely no choice to share it with most people close to me. An Immense World is such a book. I was hooked from the first few sentences and throughout every single chapter. I even took my time reading it because…
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Anguished English, by Richard Lederer
Here’s a really silly book about the uses and misuses of the English language. It’s less of a book written by the author and more a compilation of some of the wildest and funniest mistakes, errors, misappropriations and other uses of the English language. First chapter is mostly about school and was, for me at…
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
I don’t think there is any debate as to who is the best known detective in all of fiction. Conan Doyle’s consulting detective has been adapted and re-adapted countless times in so many different eras and genres. Apparently, Sherlock Holmes has been the recipient of a Guinness World Record as the most portrayed individual in…
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Thinking 101, by Woo-Kyoung Ahn
If you’re like me, you’ve probably asked yourself, multiple times, something along the lines of “how can that person think that way?” or “how did they arrive at such a weird/ridiculous/wrong/stupid conclusion?” We’ve all thought it and it’s absolutely certain that someone else has thought the same about us. How ideas/opinions/thoughts emerge and how they…
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Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, book two), by Robin Hobb
A couple of months ago I wrote about the first instalment in the Farseer Trilogy, Assassin’s Apprentice, and thought the universe set up by Robin Hobb was intriguing. It left me wanting for more. The first book felt like a gigantic introduction to a new world where we learn about its geography, its political realities,…
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The Book of the Moon : A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor, by Maggie Aderin-Pocock
By now, anyone who knows me even a little understands that I have a deep passion for most sciences, especially physics and astronomy in the past couple of years. It seems like every time I come across a science book that looks remotely interesting, I’ll be tempted. And now it’s much worse since I have…
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