I haven't read them all. But I know what you mean.

He's no Nabakov.

That's a good effort. I haven't read the Book Thief, but I agree about the Amor Towles book. It was OK, but nothing special. I also was not a huge fan of Where the Crawdads Sing. It was OK but didn't punch me in the gut like a great book does.

I choked in the second 50. My total just 29 all up. My wife got a scarcely believable 74. I do read a lot more genre novels than she does, which didn't feature strongly in the list. How did you go?

Looking forward to the rest of the list anyway. I’ll see if I can catch up a bit tomorrow and will let you know 😀

Probably The True History of the Kelly Gang, the Bee Sting, Circe... Horse maybe.

17 for me so far.

Sure was. I had read more of the list than I expected, but not as many as I'd like.

I’m listening too.

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Bloody awesome.

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Amazing book. Nearly finished and can hardly drag myself away from it.

Lol, I'm not surprised.

Year Ones are masters of tricky, often irrelevant, questions.

A sunny weekend at last. I'm grappling with the idea that I can go outside and do yard work.

Useful tool, well worth ten $.

I haven't read them all by any means, and I'm showing my popular fiction DNA here, but Great Expectations is my favourite.

Not my favourite Dickens, but a good read nonetheless.

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Just finished watching Untamed with Sam Neil and Eric Bana. It uses all the tropes, but with enough new twists to make it interesting.

A few days clearing my head. Up where there air is clear and cold.

Nothing wrong with a long book.

Wow. Stunning.

I was wondering why the barbecue plates are so clean at this camp.

I still dip into this book regularly.