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    Your Book Activity - July 2019

    in Past Book Logs

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    As well as reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Armin, I have been reading old diaries of my mother, father and grandfather of their travels within New Zealand in the 50's. My parents hitch-hiked round the South Island and worked on various orchards and farms ( several which many years later we ended up living near, which is quite strange.) My grandparents did a trip in an Austin 10 which boiled on steep climbs and most of the roads were loose metal. I would love to retrace the journey my grandparents did sometime and even stay in the places they did, if they still exist.

    The Books That Shaped Your Personality

    in General Book Discussions

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    On ‎11‎/‎07‎/‎2019 at 3:58 AM, Hayley said:

     

    What a lovely (and linguistically very satisfying) quote! It's amazing that you actually ended up getting goats too, I love goats!

     

     

    Yes, they're clever and affectionate animals. I still have one, named Morrison (after the lawnmower, not the singer :lol:) who with his previous owner, used to ride round in the back of her station wagon. He's a bit big and stroppy for that now :blush:

    Poppy's Progress 2019

    in Past Book Logs

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    Bombs On Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

     

    Judith Kerr is the children's author of the Mog books and The Tiger Who Came To Tea, all delightfully written and illustrated by her. I particularly loved reading about Mog the cat, to children.

     

    Bombs On Aunty Dainty is a YA semi-autobiographical book from a series of three. Like Judith, Anna is a German-Jew who escaped with her anti-Nazi family just before WW2 and were refugees in a number of countries before settling in Britain where this book is set.

    Although aimed at a younger audience, I enjoyed this book and it gave some interesting insights into how hard it was to be a refugee of German descent in Britain during WW2, even when clearly holding anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist views (her father had written several books openly criticising the Nazis.)

     

    ★★★

     

    Cricket

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    I had to laugh at the Chase's Paul Sinha's remark when NZ won unexpectedly against India.

    'Couldn't you have just stuck to rugby you overperforming d***'s?' :rolol:

    I felt really sorry for India, because they had played so well up until then and their captain Virat Kohli is such a gracious man.

     

    So, bring it on England!! :lol:

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