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Good mix (I'm head of humanities so a bit biased!)

 

Haha well my careers adviser said it was a good mix.

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Was it you who recommended it, because it was great. Just found her an inspirational woman who gave meat to the story of Ann Frank who I have read since about 10 years old!

Astonishing to find out how the Dutch reacted to the Nazis and her and her husband were incredible, so young and so responsible (wrong word). Don't often read non fiction but this was fabulous.

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I did review it on the forum some time ago. I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.

 

I dont know how many times I took it out of the library... It's actually a book I'd love to steal out of there (even though I now have my own copy) as I loved it so much.

 

Like you I was amazed by Miep and her friends' bravery and selflesness. I also found her personal journey (starting as a kid after WW1) really interesting.

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Rebecca Tope A Cotswold Killing, OK

Quite underwhelmed somehow, thought it would be more fun somehow never got to know the characters and really understand what was going on!

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Pierre Peju - The Girl from Chartreuse. This is ace, all about a bookseller whose life is reading and his relationship with the young girl he runs over. Great!

 

 

I read this earlier this week - awesome book, fantastic description of the bookshop, and heartbreaking study of loneliness.

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I read this earlier this week - awesome book, fantastic description of the bookshop, and heartbreaking study of loneliness.

Loneliness yes, made me feel very bleak.

 

Reginald Hill Death of Daziel, great story but having read lots of this series am a bit bothered about the chronology. The characters appear to have changed relationships, I thought Peter Pascoe was divorced, that his wife was in the US and that she had had another child but they appear to be back together. Maybe I'm getting confused with the telly!

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Catriona McPherson Bury Her Deep

1920s mystery, good fun.

Confessions of a Agony Aunt (I never read two books at once but went shopping as littley has had a growth spurt and anyway, there were three for a fiver and I really wanted a coffee with cream...... you'll understand!

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