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The Bookworm’s Thread 2018
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Book 47:
8/10 - but 9.5/10 for MSE-worthiness. Much I knew (the book was published in 2010) but there were some real gems here that made me think hard and I created a list of actions as a result. The author's comments on 4X4 drivers I thought were particularly pithy :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Really inspiring stuff!Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
I'm reading Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life.greentiger wrote: »
I'm now reading
29 by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr
What if a single 29 second phonecall could change your life forever? 'Give me one name. One person. And I will make them disappear . . .'
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Wednesday2000, I finished "29 Seconds"; I did enjoy it with the moral dilemmas it posed.
Next up is
100 by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr
I read "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared" some years ago and enjoyed it, so here's hoping...Sewing 88/COLOR]Woollies 19Card s 91Reading 37/400 -
VfM4meplse wrote: »Book 46:
8.5/10. Ok, so it's a children's book....but it was so well-written, gentle and touching, I thought it was a great read. I'd been meaning to read it for a while but it wasn't until I found it for 25p in a chazzer last month I got the chance. It was a very worthwhile way of spending an evening.
I love this book. Along with Boy in the striped pyjamas. Both deemed to be children/YA books.
Just finished
Was good, but not great, gave it 3 stars.
now reading the 4th Cormoran Strike book by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today!:mad:
Cos if you do it today and like it...You can do it again tomorrow..
Bookworm's Thread 2019 reading Challenge total :- 1/600 -
Syman, I really enjoyed the Miss Jean Milne book; sorry it didn’t hit the spot for you. But then, I didn’t enjoy “Warhorse”! I’ve come to the conclusion that Mr Morpurgo and I are not suited to each other as I haven’t particularly liked any of his books. I have read several of them to classes of kids and they seem to like them, so that’s what matters.Sewing 88/COLOR]Woollies 19Card s 91Reading 37/400
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Book 48:
8.5/10. I was encouraged to read this from the many recommendations on this thread - thank you! I was 13th in the queue of libarray reservations, which I was pleased to cancel when I found this for 50p in a chazzer. Wittily written and very touching, it was a quick and entertaining read. Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
Book 49:
4/10. Just dreadful - a small helping of facts liberally coated with assumptions, conjecture and sensationalism. Who writes this carp? I wasn't too happy about some of the sweeping statements made about medics either! If anything, I think I need to read a less dramatised version of events that have a much higher factual content! Avoid unless you like stories where truth is shrouded in supposition.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
I've just finished Eleanor Oliphant, too. It's our book group choice this month.
Intriguing.
I've just begun a very different Tess Gerritsen. 'Playing with Fire'. When mother plays a particular piece of music on her violin it has a strange effect on her 3 year old daughter, leading to extreme violence.
Edit to add: Eleanor Oliphant was a big hit with book group today.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)0 -
Book 50:
8.5/10 - There were so many nuggets of wisdom buried inside the different - and sometimes contradictory - accounts of pathology from a range of doyennes in the field, it really made me think hard about what happens next...(career-wise, not the after-life).Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0
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