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Val

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Val's Books by Status

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The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran
In mezzo scorre il fiume
Attar of Roses and Other Stories of Pakistan
Finntopia: What We Can Learn From the World's Happiest Country
Storie sulla pelle
The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't
Fiabe finlandesi

Val's Reading Goals

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7/36 books
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2025 Reading Goal

Read 36 books by . You're 2 books ahead of schedule. 🙌

Val's Most Popular Reviews

Interesting story and overall metaphor, beautifully written sentences here and there, but generally overbloated and full of repetitions. Could have easily done with at least 200 pages less.

June 12, 2023

The book is well written and the theories presented are very interesting, however, the connections between them at times seem a bit far-fatched.

August 4, 2021

Few of the stories were quite interesting (Lulu, Land of Big Numbers, Gubeikou Spirit) but the rest ended abruptly, and it felt like an style which I could not really understand or get myself to like.

June 4, 2022
August 7, 2021

Nice food for thoughts, with some good nuggets of inspiration and a very readable style, but also quite shallow and too spread out in terms of covered topics.

March 27, 2021