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The three little kids have found temporary housing after their home was bombed out by Allied attacks - at the end of WWII - in the fascinating home of a warm and friendly German family, with little kids of their own...

Wow. Goggins is about to turn his life around, by joining the USAF...

Hang on tight - once Robison's brain LETS GO, he gives himself THE RIDE OF HIS LIFE!!!

An absolutely ELECTRIFYING Memoir! And a terrific trip.

Wonderful, sobering and invigorating!

If your body-mind goes from on again/off again to Continuously On suddenly, you could be like me & Robison... Both of us were born happy, secure, and Alive in a World of Wonders, till fractious fights and alcoholism started around us. So we both reverted to extreme introversion. A Semi-autism.

THEN - much later - brain stimulation and chemical therapy threw us suddenly into a very Zany Nirvana, and Healing began!

Stunning!

A beautiful and self-revelatory examination of our complex and intertwined waking streams of consciousness. I recommend it to all seekers!

This is Wilde's famous letter from Reading Prison, describing, with heartfelt contrition, the void created in his heart by his self- indulgence - and its spiritual remedy.

Beautiful book. Beautiful if you feared and loathed the four years 2016-2020. Beautiful - and as deadly, to the perverse, as arsenic! I love its sheer outrage.

This highly-acclaimed Canadian book of tart social commentary was written by a friend of mine here on Goodreads. It's quite wonderfully written - and in Marche's own wryly affable style. Highly recommended! There is another good one penned by him, too, that I've got and value highly: a no-holds barred look at Shakespeare in our times. Marche is married to a fellow literary icon in her own right.

Devastatingly bizzare, and hard to get your head around! But it's GOOD.

Goethe, as always, refused to entertain his Dark Side. His last words when dying in a dark room were "for God's sake - open the window!" So, in his novel, when extraneous dark elements threaten a man's happy marriage, decisive and positive action must follow, in order not to lose everything he and his wife have built!

A MARVELOUSLY perceptive and insightful novel!

The Lost Ottawa books are great nostalgia boosters, as they dwell on the forever-lost, simple and slowpoke days from the fifties and sixties in the long valley of Ontario's Ottawa River. Here you'll meet the weekly bread men, the semi-weekly milk men, the Fuller Brush Men - in fact, the whole smiling gallery of friendly faces that populated the local Baby Boomers' childhood years!

A slowly developing, leisurely and profusely descriptive novel written at the time of the rich zenith of nineteenth century fiction!

An intimately drawn, immense inner OCEAN of a novel, and the best fictional account of schizophrenia I have read since Doris Lessing's great Briefing for a Descent into Hell!

The traumatic and poverty-stricken childhood of a tough-as-nails Navy SEAL.

Fantabulous! I could read Zola forever, and my better half says likewise.

I absolutely LOVE this book!!!

Orwell's mordant prose glitters trenchantly.... Wonderful!

For those of us who grew up in the Ottawa Valley, in the long shadow cast by the Parliamentary Peace Tower, going back to our past here - by listening to guys like the author, Jim Hurcomb, on CHEZ-FM - makes a welcome trip down memory lane. This book'll make a nice Christmas gift for my neighbour and close friend Les. We often relive the fifties 'n sixties in our conversations...

SUPERB. After having seen Graham's stirringly selfless story on American Network TV, I am amazed to read how WELL he tells it here. He's a personal hero of mine!

A RIP-ROARINGLY good book about all the Insider work that goes into the making of a Catholic saint.

All is not well in the village of Frog's Gap. Jake's adopted mangy mutt has just killed Mrs. Wilson's pet rabbit, Harry. Looks like it's time for a Big Hairy Lie!