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Ghosts of Christmas Past

On December 4, 2017December 3, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews6 Comments

Another one of my Cambridge haul down! I'm doing pretty well with it having so far read five out of seven books I bought then, the only ones left are: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and David Szalay's All That Man Is, so I actually do stand a chance of finishing all of the haul before end of year …

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Spectacular fall on the home stretch

On November 9, 2017October 27, 2018 By bookskepticIn Thoughts10 Comments

I wrote few weeks ago how I finally caught up with all the reviews, that is now officially in the past, I am three books behind again and surely soon it will be four. This however is a common state of affairs, one may even say it was highly unusual to be caught up with …

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