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I've just finished reading this and found it educational as well as entertaining. It is not the first Tracy Chevalier I have read and one of the joys of...
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Her other books are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Falling Angels
The Virgin Blue
The Lady and the Unicorn
Burning Bright (I can't remember having read this one yet.)
I just spotted this article which I thought worth sharing. There are certainly a few titles there that I'd like to add to my 'Must Read' list.
10 Must-Read Books By Egyptian Writers By Nouran...
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We have one book called Rabbit Stew that I swear I can recite in my sleep ;) THEY can recite it word for word and I can't even skip a page or miss a sentence without being told about it. Somehow...
THIS BE THE VERSE
They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were ****** up in their...
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There are more nihilists/anti natalists around than you may imagine Newcastle, even if they're closet ones, and haven't actually come out as such. That is why I read a lot of the existentialist...
I recently looked at an old file of some of my own 'Lit Bits' and found my attempts at poetry which I submitted for one of L4U's earliest, if not first, poetry competition which was focussed on the...
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Of course a classic:
Osymanduis by Percy Bysse Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half...
This is a delightful book by Jonna Castle, one of the founders of the Egyptian Study Society ( ESS) at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and whose passion is evident in the book.
I had it...
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There is nothing worse than getting a quick and unexpected flash on the road in pitch blackness. :cg
Cute and newly written book You Say Potato: A book about Accents . Written by Ben Crystal, David Crystal who have collected a compilation of 822 accents and postulate what your accent says about...
Written 60 years before my birth about my then village Clerkenwell, George walked the same streets and drank in the same pubs as did Karl Marx and me...
I love to read but just finished a book by Jodi Picoult titled Handle with Care, brilliant I just couldn't put it down, one of those books you want to continue reading but in another way you don't...
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FYI - on Amazon for Kindle - they are offering FREE a Jodi Picoult novella entitled Larger Than Life.
Not too sure how many on here have Kindles but if you check the FREE ebooks this one is listed...
In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far you’ve come, or how far you have to go? Your strengths, or your weaknesses? The best that might happen, or the worst that might come to be? In...
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I'd welcome some quiet moments. I know how important they are and yet they can be rare events at times. Still find time to count my blessings though - and with a world that is showing some very...
A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell.
He painted a sign advertising the 4 pups and
set about nailing it to a post on the edge of
his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the
post, he...
When I was a puppy, I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of...
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My reaction to this post was that it was a touching and probably common theme in animal welfare that happens LOTS here as people buy animals with really no sense of long term commitment to them....
