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The Man Who Was Magic by Paul Gallico My rating: 5 of 5 stars What would happen if one day a genuine magician with real magic came to a city of illusionists who live entirely in a world of artifice and sleight of hand? This is one of the very few books that I have [...]
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The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is well on its way to being a classic and an essential rite of passage for anyone who wants to write for pleasure or professionally. Julia Cameron has set herself the mission [...]
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Here’s a quick look at some of the reading highlights of the last year for me: Lord Of Light by Roger Zelazny My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a difficult book to start and to get into and I would not have persevered with it except that it was highly recommended by its [...]
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May 2010, Alnmouth beach, UK The emptied cover of a book has been brought in on the tide and left on the beach. This is all that is left after the ocean has digested it, page by page. As I look at this, I realise that there is really only one right way to read [...]
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I’m currently working my way through Louis Fischer’s “Life of Mahatma Gandhi”. I say “working my way through” because it is impossible to simply read about such a life without being forced to look long and hard at one’s own. One of the many things that strikes me about Gandhi’s life is his unending experimentation. [...]
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One Soldier’s War by Arkady Babchenko My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a hell of book, a first hand account of an 18 year old conscript in the Chechen war of 1996, torn from his mother’s apron strings and brutalised beyond belief by both the training and the fighting. The most telling effect [...]
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