Books that changed your lives - or at least made you think!
#48
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Where's Wally ?
seriously i am still looking for the blinking friends and have been for 15 years i think maybe more
seriously i am still looking for the blinking friends and have been for 15 years i think maybe more
#49
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A Woman Of Substance
I have read it several times and found it empowering every time.
Other than that I tend to read medical books.
As a child, I devoured the Famous Five by Enid Blyton. Still have the collection actually. I thaught my kids would enjoy them .. but nope..
I have read it several times and found it empowering every time.
Other than that I tend to read medical books.
As a child, I devoured the Famous Five by Enid Blyton. Still have the collection actually. I thaught my kids would enjoy them .. but nope..
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And the #1 best read of all time......................The BE Wiki.
#51
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"A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey
Have now read this a couple of times and it never ceases to amaze me how drug addicts struggle to get clean and most importantly how easy it is for people to start using.
Gaynor
Have now read this a couple of times and it never ceases to amaze me how drug addicts struggle to get clean and most importantly how easy it is for people to start using.
Gaynor
#53
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on the basis of "if you like that, try this," I just finished "Lullabies for Little Criminals" by Heather O'Neill - the story of the 12-year-old daughter of a Montreal junkie and how she survives the experience. I read it on the plane from YVR to YYZ: I was expecting to sleep but was too anxious to know what happened next...
#54
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I knew it was right from the start. A drug addict would not be able to remember so much crap in such minute detail.
He got what he wanted.. going on Oprah and making a shitload of money.
#55
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[QUOTE=Almost Canadian;6089030]Sounds just like what lots of divorced women did [/QUOT
I didnt find it funny.
6 months. no kids to support, he has a job, gave up nothing. Most divorced women have kids to look after, gave up careers to be spouse.
I didnt find it funny.
6 months. no kids to support, he has a job, gave up nothing. Most divorced women have kids to look after, gave up careers to be spouse.
#56
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Not a big fan of fiction
The Cruel Sea - N Montserrat
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Rule Book of Association Football 1863
Thomas Cook International Railway Timetable (from my Inter-railing Years)
The Cruel Sea - N Montserrat
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Rule Book of Association Football 1863
Thomas Cook International Railway Timetable (from my Inter-railing Years)
#57
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rocky marciano, (biography) by everett skehan.
#58
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Many-Lives-M...5970800&sr=8-1
Is that worth some karma? I've got hardly any <sob!>
Is that worth some karma? I've got hardly any <sob!>
#59
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[QUOTE=daft batty;6090332]
Apologies for sounding flippant (that wasn't the intent).
Whilst I accept that a large number of divorcing women have children to support, a large number don't. And, whilst not wanting to get into the "who is better at looking after the kids", I have lost count of the number of times when male clients of mine have wanted to look after the kids, only for the court to decide otherwise.
Whilst I accept that a large number of divorcing women have children to support, a large number don't. And, whilst not wanting to get into the "who is better at looking after the kids", I have lost count of the number of times when male clients of mine have wanted to look after the kids, only for the court to decide otherwise.
#60
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[QUOTE=Almost Canadian;6090714]
Apologies for sounding flippant (that wasn't the intent).
Whilst I accept that a large number of divorcing women have children to support, a large number don't. And, whilst not wanting to get into the "who is better at looking after the kids", I have lost count of the number of times when male clients of mine have wanted to look after the kids, only for the court to decide otherwise.
no worries
Apologies for sounding flippant (that wasn't the intent).
Whilst I accept that a large number of divorcing women have children to support, a large number don't. And, whilst not wanting to get into the "who is better at looking after the kids", I have lost count of the number of times when male clients of mine have wanted to look after the kids, only for the court to decide otherwise.