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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

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New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this...

Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers

Robert Roper

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Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War The Civil War is seen anew,...

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A Word Game

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A Word Best Puzzle Game "A Word", unlike classic vocabulary games, gives you a more complex and fun...

Ladybird: I’m Ready for Phonics with Captain Comet

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**PRICE PROMOTION FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY** Give your child a head start in reading with Ladybird's...

Kaz (232 KP) rated The Diving-bell and the Butterfly in Books

May 15, 2019

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Being only 139 pages, this book may be short, but the impact it had, was enormous. This is an extraordinary memoir of a man who had a stroke and was left unable to move or talk. He dictated this novel to someone, using eye movements to indicate letters on an alphabetic board.

Whilst this book doesn't have a linear story as such, this is a beautifully written novel about the writer's day to day experiences in the hospital he is being treated in and, in the most mundane or saddest moments, there is humour and insight. This is a very interesting and poetic novel.

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Erika (17788 KP) rated The Princess Saves Herself in This One in Books

Nov 15, 2018 (Updated Nov 15, 2018)

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I'm not quite sure who started this popular tumblr-style spacing poetry, but it is so annoying and I feel like it makes the poetry less effective. That's simply why I've rated it so low.
The poetry was fairly good, but I couldn't help but think of rupi kaur... and that kind of tainted this for me. It certainly didn't empower or inspire me in anyway, aside from inspiring me to use capital letters and spacing correctly. This was definitely a quick read, and maybe took me 30 minutes. I've rented the next one from the library, so I guess I'll soldier on with the next one.