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TCS Amsterdam Marathon 2017

Sports and Health & Fitness

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TCS Amsterdam Marathon 2017 mobile application, Powered by Tata Consultancy Services, includes a...

A Seaside Affair

Fern Britton

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When the residents of the Cornish seaside town of Trevay discover that their ramshackle but...

Perfect Prey

Helen Fields

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Welcome to Edinburgh. Murder capital of Europe. In the middle of a rock festival, a charity...

David McK (3425 KP) rated Christmas Eve in Books

Apr 3, 2022

Christmas Eve

Jim Butcher | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry

7.0

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I read this when it was provided as an addendum to 'Battle Ground' (that's book #17).

I was unaware that, apparently, this had also been released previously, on Jim Butcher's own website, back even before Peace Talks (or book #16) was released.

it is set after Battle Ground - thankfully giving no spoilers but only dropping hints to what will transpire - with Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, attempting to put together a bicycle for his daughter on Christmas Eve, while staying with Michael and Charity Carpenter.

A bit like Scrooge, he receives numerous supernatural visitors on that night (although for very different reasons than Scrooge did!), with the final visitor and the final portion of the story bringing a tear to the eyes.

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Songs Of The South / In That Great Gettin' Up Morning / Motherless Child / Soon Ah Will Be Done / All My Trials Lord / Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen / Deep River / Ride The Chariot by The Liberty Voices

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A Right Royal Affair

Helen Juliet

7.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Theo Glass used to believe that love was just a fairy tale. Orphaned and disowned by his homophobic...

warm and fuzzies too stinking cute male/male romance 2018 reads 5 star reads

Nikki G. (48 KP) rated The Maimie Papers: Letters from an Ex-Prostitute in Books

Sep 2, 2017

This was fascinating. I love reading letters and journals from real, everyday people, as I feel they can whole a sense of place and time like no history book ever could.

Maimie Pinzer was a prostitute at the beginning of the twentieth century, and had become addicted to morphine after losing one of her eyes. She must have cut an unusual figure with her eye patch. The charity workers gave her the name of one Mrs. Howe to write to, a society lady with philanthropic interests. What developed was a lifelong friendship. Unfortunately, Mrs. Howe's letters are no longer extant, but Maimie stands on her own, and you can watch her shyness in letters begin to blossom and become a most admirable character, especially considering all of the adversity she faced.

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Kimmic (814 KP) rated Living with a Serial Killer in Books

Feb 21, 2018

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Slow moving (2 more)

Not what you would expect at all

Found it difficult to like the main character

The title is the most exciting bit!

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Well, I was very excited to read this book, and was quickly disappointed... I did finish it (with maybe scan reading towards the end). This book is about a weak woman being with a very controlling and dominating partner, there is no reference to him being a killer until the very end.
I am not sure I would even forward this book onto a Charity Shop for someone else to waste their time reading it. The title is very misleading and it was sure will for the book to get better that pushed me through to the end (p.s. it doesn't... get better that is!)