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G.J.’s 2019 Year in Books
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G.J. Griffiths
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The novels of Dickens, Gaskell and Eliott that I still have not got around to reading! So many books: so little time!
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The Quarry Bank Runaways
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Ants In Space (Kweezy Capolza Books, #1)
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So What! Stories or Whatever!
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2013
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Fallen Hero
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2012
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Mules; Masters & Mud
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So What Do I Do? (So What! series #3)
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2015
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So What's Next! (SoWhat! Stories, #2)
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2014
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They're Recycling Aliens (Kweezy Capolza Books, #2)
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The Mule Spinners' Daughters
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The So What! Stories Trilogy: A Three Books Blockbuster
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So What! Stories or Whatever!
I sincerely hope that you and your family are keeping safe and well in these very strange Covid 19 times. We have stayed locked down since March and concentrate when we can on rewilding our garden, reading and writing. Like so many others we haven’t seen any family since last year ☹!
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I sincerely hope that you and your family are keeping safe and well in these very strange Covid 19 times. We have stayed locked down since March and concentrate when we can on rewilding our garden, reading and writing. Like so many others we haven’t seen any family since last year ☹!
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| While my attention was captured from the beginning by this dystopian sci-fi tale, I had some problems with understanding the underlying plot and the general location of the setting. It took me many pages of careful reading to decide that we were on E ...more | |
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"I enjoyed this unique novel. It follows the story of a girl who loses her parents in a tragic accident, and through various circumstances, encounters ghosts who are trapped by an evil being who wants to take over Hell itself. I enjoyed the fact that "
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Imagining Violet Married (The Violet Trilogy, #2):
"This is the second book in the Imagining Violet series I have read and enjoyed. Imagining Violet Married picks up with Violet marrying her sweetheart, musician Frank Welsman, and moving from England to Toronto where he plans to build his music career"
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“The majority of the ruling classes did not save their blame and recriminations just for those working class people who were able to walk away from St. Peter’s Fields free of injury. Many of the wounded did not seek medical treatment for they were certain that it would invite retribution from the authorities. Rumours of such a spiteful attitude had a strong basis in fact.
Despite the pain and the temptation to swoon again into a state of unconsciousness Thomas and Jacob shook their heads, just a little, as much as the soreness would allow.
‘Oh, no, sir; our cause is just. We mun stick together an’ demand the vote an’ better workin’ conditions,’ answered Jacob.
‘While them laws as keeps the price o’ bread up too ’igh is there we gotter keep goin’, sir. Folks is starving’ while wages is pressed down by factory owners,’ added Thomas.”
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Despite the pain and the temptation to swoon again into a state of unconsciousness Thomas and Jacob shook their heads, just a little, as much as the soreness would allow.
‘Oh, no, sir; our cause is just. We mun stick together an’ demand the vote an’ better workin’ conditions,’ answered Jacob.
‘While them laws as keeps the price o’ bread up too ’igh is there we gotter keep goin’, sir. Folks is starving’ while wages is pressed down by factory owners,’ added Thomas.”
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“Parts of her that had been separated for transit were still in limbo, unwrapping, trying to find their way home to her body.
Wolf, D.C.. q-cave (p. 7). D. C. Wolf. Kindle Edition.”
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Wolf, D.C.. q-cave (p. 7). D. C. Wolf. Kindle Edition.”
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