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wandering

From Breda, Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Joined Friday, September 12, 2003
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books registered 7 220
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If PM's are not working, please feel free to contact me at wandering.books [*] gmail.com


Read in 2023
64 read, top 4 because they all got 10/10:
* Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
* The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
* Loveless, Alice Oseman
* The Grandmothers, Doris Lessing

* The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Elisabeth Tova Bailey [best non-fiction]

Read in 2022
76 read, top 4 because there was a 10 star and three 9,5 stars:
* Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason: right after completing I read the beginning again and the story is so well put together, especially once you know what happens [1]
* The Binding - Bridget Collins (audio): never rooted so hard for the protagonists [2]
* The Street - Ann Petry: classic from 1946 [2]
* The Twilight Zone - Nona Fernandez, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (book from Chile) [2]

* Chasing me to my grave - Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly [best non-fiction]

Read in 2021
82 read, top 3:
* Nervous conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga [1]
* Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi [2]
* Raybearer - Jordan Ifueko (audio) [3]

* Factfulness - Hans Rosling [best non-fiction]

Read in 2020
60 read, top 3:
* Gods of jade and shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia [1]
* Binti: the complete trilogy - Nnedi Okorafor [2]
* A single thread - Tracy Chevalier [3]

* All we can save - edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson [best non-fiction]

Read in 2019
59 read, top 3:
* An absolutely remarkable thing - Hank Green [1]
* Peaches for monsieur le Curé - Joanne Harris [2]
* The housekeeper and the professor - Yoko Ogawa [3]



The stars in my profile pic are in memory of Yellow-Star, who passed away on October 28, 2008.

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