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Karenh wrote:Hepzibah I have just managed to order Nadia's Song thourgh Amazon for 1p. It sounds a really interesting book. Thanks for your recommendation of it.
[face=Comic Sans MS]Hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to do a write up about it when you've read it. [/face]
Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
I'm reading Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari. Anybody else read this one?
I'm partial to biographies and am finding this one a good one.......
Don't want to give anything away but if you...
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I have not read the book myself, but I am familiar with the words which I have always found to be very moving and very true.
They were first spoken by Martin Niemoller, a conservative German...
When sorting out family stuff recently I found a Lloyds Saving Bank account book.
£2 was deposited in August 1975 and by November 1978 the deposit had risen to £2.43p I wonder what it should be...
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I remember those days of getting good interest rates. Wish it was that way now. I think we're, at best, right now getting 2.5% but that is an all time high as it has mostly been .05% or LESS so as to...
On Saturday we re-visited a country house owned by the National Trust and I thought you might be interested in some pictures and a brief description. The text is mostly a collection of notes from the...
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Haven't seen any sign of that knot today H but have been to two lovely places. Will tell you about them later, working on a tablet is a bit slow I find. And I forgot my lead to transfer pics to the...
A friend of mine recently recommended a book to me so I looked it up online, and as soon as I saw the phrase 'purple prose' I just knew it wasn't for me! :( I also went to the author's website and...
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Wasn't that long ago the our local library (well the library in the USA I used) started to allow downloads to Kindle. I'm inclined to think that in the near future LOTS of other libraries will start...
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