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All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully
Three Men in a Boat
His Dark Materials
Beach Read
Moon Palace
Collapse Feminism
Secrets for the Mad

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What are your favorite books of all time?

When you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...

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Team
The Song of Achilles
The Hunger Games
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Atteindre l'aube
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Triste tigre
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
The Grapes of Wrath
Open Water
Enter Ghost

Hortensian's Most Popular Reviews

Toujours assez dubitative du concept de HPI/surdoués/... et bien que l'autrice propose plusieurs pistes de réflexions quant à la véracité scientifique de cette appellation, mes doutes ne sont pas dissipés. 

Néanmoins, le livre est intéressant pour les personnes neuroatypiques en général. 

Few insightful informations but overall it was a pretty basic self-help book to be even more productive in a capitalist environment. The constant example of losing weight as a positive habit to incorporate into your life got quite annoying as it was never challenged. 

It took me four years to finish this book and I'm so grateful to have given it the time it needed and not to have rushed it. One of my favourite reads of the year for sure. I cannot wait to read it again now that I've got to know them

A very good guide for beginners  

I think I would have DNF this one if I was not reading it for uni. Not that it was bad, quite the opposite, but the graphic depiction of incestual abuse and rape was too much for me. (I also wish more people had pointed out the incest of this book as it doesn't show right away when looking at the content warnings)
The audiobook is narrated by the author which fitted her style and stream of consciousness narration perfectly.  
A great book but I am so glad I'm done reading it and will most certainly never pick it up again.