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Finished earlier this year, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

I don't know how many times I've read this book so far in my life or how many times I will read it still, but I will.

If you haven't, you should give it a chance.

Trying to write anything meaningful about the book in 500 characters is almost impossible, but I do think there is one thing I can say about the book that will describe it perfectly & it's this;

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Finished earlier this year, "Norse mythology" by Neil Gaiman.

Norse mythology & stories that Gaiman compiled from several sources.

I laughed many times, especially to the adventures of Loki. The gods in this mythology laugh, get drunk, lose their godly items, make mistakes & eventually will die too in Ragnarök.

Ratatoskr was my favourite character. A squirrel that delivers messages along the world tree Yggdrasil...and edits the message to cause havoc...

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Finished earlier this year, "Slaughterhouse-Five or The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death" by Kurt Vonnegut.

A book centred around the bombing of Dresden in 1945 that the author experienced as a prisoner of war, but that's just the small centrepiece. We jump around in space and time and planets!

A book full of memorable quotes, sudden scenes of horror from the bombing of Dresden and casual attitude to death.

A book to make you think.

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Finished earlier this year "War with the Newts" by Karel Čapek.

Early sci-fi from 1936 it tells a story of how people discovered intelligent newts from the ocean and how they exploited and enslaved them.

But in doing so they gave newts technology, information and weapons. Soon enough, the numerous newts had aspirations of their own, like turning most of the continents into shallow shores where the newts could live.

Definitely worth the read!

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Finished "The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health & Disease" by Daniel E. Lieberman.

It was a fascinating book. To think how far we the humankind have come.

In search of comforts, we cause problems for ourselves. We were not meant for many of the things we take granted.

The book also gave motivation to exercise & try to eat healthy.

I also couldn't help but to wonder if we've always been, right from the start, this cruel to each others.

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