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    Mammals

    Mammals

    Tom Kemp

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    From a modest beginning in the form of a little shrew-like, nocturnal, insect eating ancestor that...

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Kel (0 KP) rated It in Books

Sep 30, 2017  
It
It
Stephen King | 1986 | Fiction & Poetry, Horror
10
8.8 (95 Ratings)
Book Rating
Loved it then love it now
Contains spoilers, click to show
This is the first book I ever read and fell in love with; I was 8 and having trouble in school reading because "The Oxford Reading Tree" was boring me to years. My father was at his wits end because he know once I had a book I loved I would become an avid reader and, he was right. I love the detail and the way King grips you from the first page. He creates an image of a small town that could very well be your own and poisons the very blood running through it's veins. King chooses an easy target, children, and turns them into the warrior hero that saves not only themselves but the town itself. Utterly terrifying but a book that you have to continue reading until the very end. A classic.
  
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Three Daughters of Eve in Books

Sep 17, 2017  
Three Daughters of Eve
Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
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Wonderfully weaved story of past and present life
Elik Shafak has a beautiful way of writing very delicate narratives. In this case, it's a story about an indecisive Turkish woman reminiscing about her past mistakes and confusions, attempting to reconcile her faith and her disbelief at every given turn.

She is now a housewife with children, when she vowed never to be such, and she has issues with her religion and questioning her belief after living between a devoutly Muslim mother and a secular father. These issues rise up again when she studies a "God" seminar at Oxford and she is pitted against her atheist Iranian friend, her Muslim housemate and her enigmatic older professor.

It is a remarkably contemporary story, weaving political attributes and current affairs. Intriguing but could have a been a little shorter.
  
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David McK (3562 KP) rated Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Ammon Shea | 2008
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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no, the Butler didn't do it!

For some reason (OK, he's been paid to do so), Ammon Shea decides to read the Oxford English Dictionary. Why anyone would want to do so is beyond me, but he seems quite thrilled by the prospect. This book detials his experiences of doing so, with one chapter per letter (most of which is taken up with him trying to fond somewhere to actually read it).

The real reason anyone would read this work, of course, is not for that part of the chapter, but rather for the last part of each, in which he produces some little-known words and gives his own definition of what they mean.

I've read it, it's OK, but I won't be looking to read this again or to read the OED myself anytime soon.