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Chrissie
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2013 - What are you reading now
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"Dem, Massie's Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman is very good. Enjoy!
Have your read Nicholas and Alexandra? That I loved even more and so gave i...more " |
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"You too!!!!"
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Chrissie
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2013 Where in the World Have You Been? (Book Finished & Review Linked)
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"Gill wrote: "I've just been to Malaysia with The Garden of Evening Mists. The descriptions are lovely. A lot, maybe too much, information to process i...more
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"BOOK 28: One Fourteenth Of An Elephant
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 5 stars, completed 19/6 Thailand A difficult read, but if you...more " |
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"I completed One Fourteenth Of An Elephant
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... A difficult read, but if you want to know about the Burma-...more " |
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| I am glad I read this book. It is brutal reading. It is detailed, and I mean very detailed! But if you want to know about the 200.000 Asians and 60.000 Allied POWs who were forced by the Japanese to build this 415km railway between Bangkok, Thailand,...more | |
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Michael's review of The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid:
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This is a rare treat for a great poet to share some lessons on life that links to his strengths as a poet. In this series of personal essays, Wormser reflects on a 25-year period when he lived off the electric grid in the woods of northwest Maine,...
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A delightful exploration of the pleasures and challenges of rural Wisconsin life. The theme of rebuilding a 1951 International Harvester pick-up and building a new relationship as Perry approaches a balding forty provides a coherent framework for...
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James
― Henry James
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
― Elie Wiesel
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
― Winston Churchill
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
― Dr. Seuss
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson
― Jeanette Winterson
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