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ayubo.life

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The mission of ayubo.life is to ‘Help our members gain awareness on wellness, make choices that...

Calcium and Magnesium in Groundwater: Occurrence and Significance for Human Health

Lidia Razowska-Jaworek

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Calcium and magnesium are abundant in groundwater, but the role of groundwater as the essential...

State of Decay

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State of Decay contains elements of third person combat and simulation (building base and outposts)....

ClareR (5674 KP) rated I Am, I Am, I Am in Books

Jul 30, 2020

I’m going to have to stop saying that I can’t read non-fiction, because clearly I can. This book was a quick, addictive read, and I vacillated between feeling voyeuristic and horrified. Maggie’s encounter with a man whilst she was walking on a mountain path, resulted in me telling my husband all about it, in detail. He asked me why I was reading it, it sounded horrifying (it was, but that’s where I stopped listening to him!). Another encounter whilst backpacking in South America had me holding my breath, and her illness as a child was upsetting in a different way - as all stories involving sick children do now that I have my own. The last story about her daughters serious allergies and many ‘blue light’ dashes to hospital, resounded with me in particular, and I found myself close to tears. Whilst my own child’s medical condition isn’t life threatening, he has certainly been hospitalised, had serious operations, and had his near death experience (luckily just the one). This is traumatic enough, but to have to be ever vigilant must be emotionally and physically exhausting.

I hesitate to use the word ‘wonderful’ when talking about a book about seventeen near death experiences, but I loved reading it, and would definitely recommend it.