The constant reader (2024)

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Books read

  1. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world, by Jack Weatherford
  2. The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead, by David Shields
  3. The end we start from, by Megan Hunter
  4. Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
  5. Can Singapore fall? Making the future for Singapore, by Lim Siong Guan
  6. Mr Kato plays family, by Milena Michiko Flasar
  7. The idea of Singapore: Smallness unconstrained, by Tan Tai Yong
  8. The dark forest, by Liu Cixin (re-read)
  9. Singapore is still not an island: More views on Singapore foreign policy, by Bilahari Kausikan
  10. The consultant, by Im Song-sun
  11. Somewhere towards the end, by Diana Athill
  12. A view from the stars, Liu Cixin
  13. Dark matter, by Blake Crouch
  14. Warmth: Coming of age at the end of our world, by Daniel Sherrell
  15. Collected plays three, by Alfian Sa’at
  16. Klara and the sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
  17. Stuck monkey, by James Hamilton-Paterson 

Currently reading; may or may not finish

  • World of wonders: In praise of fireflies, whale sharks and other astonishments, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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For books read in previous years, check out The constant reader 2021, 2022 and 2023.

The chopper

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She was carrying off dishes and disturbing my dinner, so I picked her up and say chop chop chop helicopter. And set her down chopper style on the sofa – not too long of a flight, that chable is getting heavy – away from my food. Later she came up to me and say I want Harry Potter! Oh wow, she knows the character? I picked up her and say ok you are flying on a broomstick! And it only hit me later, she was actually saying..