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Another excellent reason to live to one hundred
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Gloriously absurd and implausible, with a charmingly diffident hero who manages to bumble through the twentieth century, from one major … Continue reading
