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YIKES! ...entering the dolls’ house - for the First Time in her life...

Darius at the bas-reliefs in Persepolis experiences culture shock:
“That’s you!” Babou said to me.
I couldn’t even grow a beard...
“Darius the Great!
He was strong and smart and brave!”
I didn’t feel strong OR smart OR brave... I was just ME.

The child inside myself... was never understood or accepted by me until my journey into myself began. My fantasy as a child was that I wanted to be a writer (I was told Jewish girls who want to become writers are crazy). I knew I wanted to do something besides being a mother because I needed intellectual stimulation and because I felt inadequate and inferior. - SUPERB! And its low price is EXCELLENT.

Then I began to have dreams about my (haunted old Victorian dolls’) house, and its occupants. One of the oddest dreams was the first. It was three or four days after I entered into possession of it....
THE PLOT OF THIS NOVELLA JUST KEEPS ON GETTING MURKIER & MURKIER - NOT FOR LATE AT NIGHT!

I’ve finished two of these great success stories about people turning around their lives so far - the first, about a sports-dummy inner city teacher who starts coaching a boys’ soccer team and achieves an amazing triumph... MAGNIFICENT audiobook, and SO well narrated! Inexpensive too!

If my mother was proud of me for having been accepted (into the University of Chicago) she never showed it. After all, in 1952, I was just fifteen...

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This “gentle”, wonderful classic from pre-war England follows the quiet, unprepossessing Mr Finchley as he takes a forced vacation from his clerical cubicle to bike around idyllic, unspoiled Britain - until he is abducted by a preposterously funny crook - and the fun’s only beginning!

Nearly 6,000 of us GR folks have given stellar ratings to this one - and it’s now going for peanuts on Amazon!

FROM THE FORWARD: True Hope is hard won, and the struggle to hang on to it is more than we can often bear. But Buechner says if we simply quiet ourselves and REALLY listen... we will hear God speaking to us.

Janelle regretted she’d not run after her, and offered some solace. Jessie’s revelation stunned them all, but it had cut Caroline the deepest. Janelle suspected clues like these chipped away Caroline’s tenuous belief in her husband’s innocence.

It’s become a Thanksgiving custom in Morgan’s household, amidst so many family dead ends and disasters to say ‘No thanks’ for the numerous downturns in their lives, but ‘Thanks’ for still being alive and ABLE to give thanks for it. A shining Christian realism glows throughout this book!

Anger was on her List of Very Bad Things, and besides, what was the use of being angry at a dead father anyway?

A riveting, rewarding yet tough-to-take read! Surely the best new novel out of this year’s crop that I’ve read.

The Kindle version of this wonderful, well-loved memoir is going for $1.99 on Amazon!

Absolutely excellent.

I just HAD to buy it. Cissy is a faith-filled teenager in 1970’s Mississippi who finally explodes under the stress of her father’s abuse, and kills him. Committed, she retains their secret in silence. No doctor can reach her... until her old grandmother takes her on a real-life journey down Forgiveness Road.
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George has recalled a epochal childhood memory with near-photographic recall & is astounded - and then idly turns on his iPhone & opens the Time Machine app. Only he has no clue of its otherworldly power.
THANK YOU, KEVIN KUHN, FOR THIS INCREDIBLE BOOK!

The children’s bedrooms were only one floor above the living room, (where my father listened to modern classical music). I would find myself awake and sneak part way down the stairs... listening. Those years were filled with... Shostakovich and Bartok.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everybody what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
- Erwin Schrodinger

The audiobook narration’s not in sync emotionally with what most people would visualize when reading the charmingly innocent twists of this story, so it’s probably best to buy it in Kindle or Paperback. The story itself is harmless fun both for YA readers and old timers like me!

I hate shame. I hate how pervasive it is, how it stalks in disguise behind so many modern problems... Shame is Tolkien’s Ring-wraiths: “The Nazgul came again... like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men’s flesh.”
WONDERFUL BOOK!

Rovelli revels in his own flippant view of post-Einsteinian physics. A good subtitle for this one might be The Unbearable Lightness of Relativity! But if he were less shallow he might realize his own vacuity... THEN he might turn to what he terms “entropic” literature - like the rest of us - for comfort!

I am a HUGE fan of classic, non-dystopian sci-fi! And this collection promises to be cast in the upbeat, hopeful moods of the true greats, back in the Golden Age of Sci-fi!

A STEAL at $0.99 on Amazon!

A sour note creeps into this mostly wonderful story: Darius’ Dad is lagging behind the rest of the family at Persepolis, sitting and sketching The Gate of All Nations, amazed.
“Careful!” warns Darius’ Persian mom, in English. “They’ll think you’re plotting a drone strike!”

The highest principles for our aspirations... are given to us in (our) religious tradition. It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

An insightful eye-opener of a book exploring psychological fallout from the necessary losses in our lives, beginning with the infantile experience of maternal separation and the escapes it provokes, such as affective symbiosis. But... are our books just symbiotic escapes?! Great audiobook!

Those who seek liberation use their personal existence as the furnace, the Teaching as the fire, and wisdom as the blacksmith.
-Bodhidharma

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