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Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated All She Wants in Books

Sep 5, 2021  
All She Wants
All She Wants
Jonathan Harvey | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
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Humour
This book had me giggling from the very start. The real type of giggles where people give you funny looks when you’re reading a book, not the giggles that you can suppress.
We follow Jodie McGee, a girl from Liverpool, who’s dreams seem to have come true. She’s an actress on the soap that she’s always dreamed of starring in and seems to have the perfect life, or does she?
We go back in time with Jodie to where her life started to go wrong, and comically so. We see that she doesn’t have the perfect life at all, and it makes you love her character all the more. She’s incredibly sarcastic and funny, which I absolutely loved. While some of the things in her life seem incredibly outlandish, they are also quite believable.
As someone from around the Liverpool area, the references to Liverpool were much appreciated in this book and I could imagine all of the places mentioned in the book and appreciated the references that may not have been appreciated by those not familiar with Liverpool or the scouse sense of humour.
I’ve loved Jonathan Harvey’s writing and will be on the lookout for more of his books. I would love a follow up to Jodie’s life but he ended it in such a way that it’s not needed and you can imagine where her life will go from there.
  
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Sonofdel (6278 KP) rated 5 League Titles and a Packet of Crisps: My Autobiography in Books

Jul 9, 2020  
5 League Titles and a Packet of Crisps: My Autobiography
5 League Titles and a Packet of Crisps: My Autobiography
Steve Nicol | 2016 | Biography
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
very funny anecdotes and stories, heart warming in places and revealing. (0 more)
A good read for any liverpool fan
When you think of the dominant Liverpool team of the eighties too often Steve Nicol does not get a mention. When you consider that in his time there he won the league five times, europe, the f.a,cup and also played as a pivotal part of the Scotland squad this seems surprising. This book tells the story of this unsung hero, from his start at ayr all the way to his managerial succeses in the USA. Its touching and funny. His recollection of the hillsborough tragedy is both honest and heart felt. A very good read.
  
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Lights out Liverpool (Pearl Street #1) in Books

Feb 26, 2023  
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Lights out Liverpool (Pearl Street #1)
Maureen Lee | 2023
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
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Lights out Liverpool (Pearl Street #1)
By Maureen Lee
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The folk of one small Liverpool street cope with the first year of World War II. They find the war affects each of them in a different way. One woman worries about her twin sons who are called up, another is liberated from a loveless marriage, whilst Jessica Fleming's life is changed irrevocably.

I love a good saga! This one kind of hit home with the start of WW2 and in comparison to what we are dealing with now and it’s quite frightening to think of what they were facing and the loss that was felt. It was a little heartwarming to read and have a break from my usual reads.
  
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Caitlin Moran recommended Twopence To Cross The Mersey in Books (curated)

 
Twopence To Cross The Mersey
Twopence To Cross The Mersey
Helen Forrester | 2016 | Biography, Romance
(0 Ratings)
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"Forrester was the oldest of 8 children, in Depression-Era Liverpool. No school, no medicine, no hope - her life was exactly as mine would have been, had I not had the incredibly good fortune to be born after the introduction of the NHS and the Welfare State. I read it as a direct letter from her to me. It politicised me instantly."

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