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Book 27: The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A guide to spending less while enjoying everything more by Annie Raser-Rowland with Adam Grubb - 226 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the ( Read more... )

11. The Hairy Bikers - Blood, Sweat & Tyres - Si King and Dave Myers
Pages: 357
Blurb:Si King and Dave Myers, AKA The Hairy Bikers, have travelled an interesting road. Born in the north of England, both Si and Dave had their childhood challenges. For Si, being bullied as the fat kid in class was part of his daily school routine. For Dave, his life ( Read more... )

They're something I've been pushing, seemingly forever, and perhaps Our President's defiance of those norms is getting Deep Thinkers who previously honored the norms in the breach to rediscover their value.  But the rot has been coming for a long time, and Charlotte Hays's When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?: A Southern Lady Asks the ( Read more... )

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Book 9: The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings - 283 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
A descendant of one of Hawaii's largest landowners, Matt King finds his luck changed when his fun-loving, flighty wife Joanie falls into a coma, victim of a boating accident. Matt is left in sole charge of his two daughters, teenage ex-model and ( Read more... )

Book 6: The Iliad by Homer - 460 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Much more than a series of battle scenes, the Iliad is a work of extraordinary pathos and profundity that concerns itself with issues as fundamental as the meaning of life and death.

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It took me close to two years to read this book but I was determined to (my ( Read more... )

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