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Surely a rather simple job as long as you have a complete understanding of your written language.
Came across something I have never see...
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I have never read a digital book
The opening Paragraphs of The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay.
Iley Solomon was so entirely a London...
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I am currently reading the second book of Terry Pratchett/Stephen Baxter’s, The Long Earth series.
1 - The Long Earth,
2 - The Long War...
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Whilst reading Institute I came across “Night Knocker”
Would someone like to explain what a Night Knocker is?
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I have never read a digital book
The opening Paragraphs of The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay.
Iley Solomon was so entirely a London...
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Surely a rather simple job as long as you have a complete understanding of your written language.
Came across something I have never see...
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Claims her father wanted them to get book profits despite the prologue of one of them saying the money would go to charity. Interview b...
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We have all done it. Started reading a book and before we know it 6 hours have past. Or it has gone past 3 am and you need to rise in 3 h...
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I have been wanting to read it for decades but have not done so as yet…
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I currently have three books on the go
Australian Wildlife Conservancy - celebrating the first 30 years.
The Secret life of Inanimate O...
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My Dad introduced me to books & reading. I’d sit on his knee & he’d read to me Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling & other Kip...
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I am currently reading the second book of Terry Pratchett/Stephen Baxter’s, The Long Earth series.
1 - The Long Earth,
2 - The Long War...
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Might be end game for his career.
Thought he was the comedian.
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Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows joked about the then US president having Covid on Air Force One after the first debate w...
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Any science fiction fans who remember “I have no mouth and I must scream” by Harlan Ellison?
( He wrote the classic Star Trek episode Th...
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I discovered Lyall Watson about 30 years ago whilst browsing through my local Library.
Lyall Watson was a South African Botanist, Zoolog...
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Help for poorer countries to become less resource dependent, a start for global peace.
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Those of you who know some of my history will know that my biggest internal driver is music, so now I have a question for all of you who ...
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Full Timeline of the Dune Universe (34,000 Years)
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Whilst reading Institute I came across “Night Knocker”
Would someone like to explain what a Night Knocker is?
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Technology is killing libraries
Have not been to Library for years.
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I just learned about BookTube today. From what I’m reading BookTube is a group of YouTubers who have channels based on books.
I was r...
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I have put this in here rather than in a general ‘what are you reading’ book thread because it is not a book to be read ‘cover to cover’...
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I don’t remember the first novel I read besides school primers but I do remember a book vividly that might have been my first novel. It ...
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I find matters of the mind an interesting subject so when this title was recommended to me, I just had to find a copy. This IMO is a good...
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It’s World Book Day and children everywhere are dressing up as they’re favourite characters
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Sorry in advance for a long post, but I just want to explain fully.
As some of you know, I joined a writing group at the start of the ye...
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I recently bought a copy of this as I’m interested in all things to do with our earth and as it was a lower price from Post Script, I tho...
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What book are you reading now?.. I’m reading …‘I’m a believer’ by Jessica Adams, …it was a bit slow to start with and really only kicked ...
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Be it e-book or good old fashioned paper books, what book/s are you currently reading?
I’ve tried in vain to start a book club but there...
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I’m just finishing Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid. She writes the tv series Wire in the Blood and this book is a story about those cha...
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A acquaintance of mine writes about History mainly.
Anyone who wants to read would be welcomed by him. He has dedicated most of his life...
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New boook, Harry and Meghan the Making of A Modern Royal Family. On sale today.
Nothing to say that we don’t already know, or just more...
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I am a firm advocate of paper books. You can read them on the beach, in the bath and they never need charging. It was reported yesterda...
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The book that changed it all for me was The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. An absolutely astonishing book about, ...
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I was a huge Enid Blyton fan as a child then Derek Tangye and all his animal stories set in cornwall all quiet innocent books but when I ...
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We can all put book recommendations (or otherwise) here
Please let others know what you have read recently and what you thought.
So, my...
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Well that’s what they all say. A friend of mine recently told me that he’d written a book. I had no idea, he kept it quiet.
Have you a s...
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What comics were you addicted too as a kid?
For me it was Archie and Asterix - what were yours?
And, don’t say this doesn’t belong in t...
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Would you rather read eBooks or ones you can hold?
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