I’m back from my travels and the book-reading spate has been resumed. That is not to say that I didn’t read a lot on my month-long vacation, but a lot of the books were eminently forgettable. After all, one cannot always find diamonds in the rough at book stalls by the canals of Amsterdam and [...]
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