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De knikkers van Qadir by Leo Bormans, Qadir Nadery

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3.75

Utterly heartbreaking and sometimes moving. The language is very poetic, and while sometimes beautiful, for me it veered equally often into pompous. Felt a bit repetitive at times. The audiobook is great.
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

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It pains me that I didn't like this more, because I truly empathise with Ms. Jones and definitely agree with her stance against book bannin etc

But this was really terribly written in my opinion: very repetitive both in content and language use. Simplistically written. Many anecdotes that feel unnecessary. I did like the first and last chapter a bit more. 
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 29%.
Pfft, not for me. The mystery is intriguing, but didn't really care enough about the characters to read on and find out what it's all about.
 
I can imagine people that love Pratchett liking it a bit more than I did but it's not as good as Pratchett.