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Robert Caro the US author and journalist has written 4 volumes of his LBJ biography and is, unless he dies, about to finish his 5th. He has been at it for 42 years writing...
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Its impossible for me to know his actual UK sales but a 10 second search indicates few second hand Caro LBJ books available on the Internet from UK dealers – which suggests that few originally sold...
I have no new books to read so turned to one I have tried to read many times before and never got on with. Well desperation drove me to continue this time and I really enjoyed it when I got into it....
One of the marks of a good novel for me is when I get to the end of it and I realise that I have learnt something along the way. This has been the case with The Return by Victoria Hislop.
When I...
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The Thread may or may not be in my pile of yet to be read books. Perhaps I need to check and if it's not in the pile I can keep my eye out for it at book sales.
Military history is full of myths – ‘we were heroes’, ‘we did right’, ‘our enemies were no good’ – and there are lots of myths about the Second World War, which make us, feel ‘better’ about the past....
The literary magazine most famous for interviews of great writers is The Paris Review and in 1992 they published one on Mahfouz. Its far from their best interview but contains the following...
First in 1872 with his family as a 14 year old child who was deeply interested in its nature and history. His family spent 2 months travelling on the...
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Ordering it physically on Amazon might be a cost problem - its very heavy - even in paperback.
In a thread about the subject of Cyprus came up and the Horus mentioned the seaside town of Famagusta. This was once a rising star in hot tourist spots on the island of Cyprus, but that swiftly...
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Re Victoria Hislop - an excellent writer, who does her research, married to Ian Hislop. The Island , mentioned by Hepzibah was her first novel, followed by The Return about the Spanish civil war,...
''OK boys, these are the rules. You need to take a p***, you let me know. You need to take a dump, you let me know. If its a dump, then you take this.'' Butcher holds up the short handled back packer...
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The only items downloaded in the last three years are the Apache office works, and my free version of anti virus. The problem is, is that you don't know whats coming through your updates. I have...
Rachid was the eighteen year old son of a camel breeder. The only youth of this age that lived in this vast semi desert region and an only child. His early morning time was spent...
Apparently today, March 21st, is World Poetry Day! When I read this I instantly remembered the poem Abou Ben Adhem which I read in quite early childhood and loved the flow of it and the imagery in...
I read, I slept, I read some more
I heard a movement by the door
There I saw a hideous sight
Slithering before me
I beheld in the night
A creature of no name
With beady eyes...
I met a really nice young woman on the ferry today she is training to be a teacher and loves to read, she asked me to recommend some books that she would enjoy, has any one any suggestions. Her...
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I would suggest that she takes a look at all the 'free' books available on Kindle, many of them are the out of copywrite stuff such as the classics, Dickens, The Brontes etc. there will be many more...
I took my lust for wandering
Incognito I did go
But no disguise would hide me
My tell-tale signs did show.
I wondered as I wandered
If others would let me be...
Today is the day that I release my fourth Title which is called 2016 Again?
The book is basically about my theory of mine. I believe that the timeline that we're on is an Alternative timeline and...
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Frater, I am not sure why you are again using quotes that Hepzi and myself made over 6 months ago and you replied to them at the time? :ni: and while I appreciate your desire to be a recognised...
I am currently 3/4 way through this harrowing tale of the men in HMP Maze.
Given to me by my guest who was given a copy by the author.
Besides the inhuman conditions of the incarcerated, I am...
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I cannot believe how much I missed living up in 't Dales, till I realised what a bunch of miserable two hats those people were and how they revelled in the misery... :cg
Here it is the moment everyone was waiting for my story.
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I'm not giving up on this story until they found something in regards of it or prove me wrong. Its been a rough road for me for the past years but I will no longer lie in defeat after all i'm royalty.
Just heard on the news that Prince Charles has written a book for Ladybird on climate change.
Brought back memories I had forgotten, I used to love my Ladybird books with their bright covers and...
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The Ladybird books for adults are, perhaps, not as well known as the children's books.
Seems like a good idea - writing on an oft misunderstood topic - although Prince Charles and the book will, no...
Saying as MT is about to embark on onother great adventure down under I thought it only fair to familiarise him with some great Australian poetry. This one is by 'Banjo' Patterson and he is reciting...
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Ha ha cheers H! I prefer Kevin B----y Wilson to watch on YouTube :lol:
If you're grumpy and you know it make it known
If you're grumpy and you know it make it known
If you're grumpy and you know it and you really want to show it
If you're grumpy and you know it known...
