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Debrett's A-Z of Modern Manners

Jo Bryant, Sarah Corney and Ruth Massey

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o Debrett's first book defining modern manners in over a decade o A comprehensive review of...

I'm Sure I Speak for Many Others...: Unpublished Letters to the BBC

Colin Shindler

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Britain is a nation of correspondents, and few British institutions attract as much praise and...

George Saunders recommended Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right in Books (curated)

"This book shot a lightning-bolt of understanding into my mind regarding the role of social media in the terrible political division racking our country. It also made me think that we make a grave error when we mistake the virtual world (of anonymity, cowardice, surficial snark, and posturing, one-dimensional, self-presentational bravado) for the real one – the one where people have to say things to one another’s faces, and are constrained, via the basic manners we are all pretty adept at learning, from being rude, dickish, or insulting."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Captive Prince in Books

Jan 6, 2021

Captive Prince

C.S. Pacat | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry

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3.75 stars.

I was quickly pulled into this story. It was a little strange for me to start with but the more I read, the more I got into it. I have to admit though, that I was waiting for something to happen between our Princes...and it never really did...which means I need to read the next one to see if anything will. As well as catching up with all the royal/political stuff that's going on right now.

Will get the second book in the morning.

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Natalie Portman recommended The Ministry of Special Cases in Books (curated)

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander | 2008 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"In Argentina’s ‘dirty war’ in the ’70s, the military government had thousands of activists and political opponents ‘disappeared.’ This novel is about a mother and father dealing with the disappearance of their son. It’s a moving book that also has a lot of dark comedy in it. For instance, the parents accept free nose jobs in exchange for a debt. It also captures the comic absurdity of the bureaucracy of a dictatorship. What’s most interesting to me is, as one character makes clear, the truth tellers in life are so often written off as crazy."

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