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Splendid idea.
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Interesting concept "Pre-loved books", don't you want to keep the loved ones for re-reading, it's the hated ones that get chucked out.
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Funnily enough, I have never reread a book unless I have had to for a class or something. It’s probably because reading is part of my job. Another thing about reading that is peculiar to me is that because I listen to other people reading at work, I don’t like when people read to me out of a paper or a book. I read faster than other people can speak (I think we all can) so as the courses I am doing just now have transcripts I either read the transcript OR put the device down and listen to the presenter speak.
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Bill Bryson Down Under.

Started reading this January last year then put a television in the bedroom prior to having chemo as I knew I would be bedridden for some time and never got back to the book till lJ mentioned it a few weeks back,
Picked it up again and read the chapter where he visits Ayers Rock.
Keep telling myself that I must switch off the TV more often.
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Bill is one of my favourite turn to authors. But I think I've read them all so far.
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson.
Enjoyed reading his Down Under so thought I would give this a try although the thickness of it is a bit daunting at my rate of reading it might take a couple of years.
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That's the book that made me think I might have read "A short history of time" before.
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Not being one to read a book twice would do so this one.
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Bill Bryson The Road to Little Driibbling.
His normal hilarious descriptive writing of travels around Britain, I may be a prude but it's unfortunate he has to stoop to four letter words to raise more laughs.
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I don't remember those. But I do agree.

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Currently reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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Free currently on Amazon Prime.

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.

Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.

One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.

A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.
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Sounds good but harrowing
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It’s based on the real life of Lale. I think we only understand- say - a collaborator if we metaphorically walk in their shoes.
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I am moved, just reading the précis. Part of me does not want to read it, but it is also something I feel that I must read.
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marymary wrote: July 13th, 2021, 1:24 pm It’s based on the real life of Lale. I think we only understand- say - a collaborator if we metaphorically walk in their shoes.
The Auschwitz Museum have contacted me to say this book is disrespectful to history.

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