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The Breakfast Bible

Seb Emina and Malcolm Eggs

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When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books, a delectable...

The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth: 2017

Julie Bindel

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This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and...

Goethe Barometer

Weather and Travel

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Use your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad as virtual Goethe Barometer. Additional: Temperature display,...

ClareR (6157 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.