Don Quixote
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Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
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The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Despite being barely a black belt in Orgami let alone jujitsu I'm really enjoying this. Reminds me of when the UFC was brilliant and nobody had heard of that coked up egit Connor McGregor 
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Sweet Liberty - Joseph O'Connor
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Slow Train to Switzerland - Diccon Bewes
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Waldo - Paul Theroux
My Sins Go With Me: A story of Heroism and betrayal in the Dutch resistance.
An amazing story of an amazing woman and her brave comrades in the Dutch resistance who the author (ex-BBC Martin Sixsmith) met by chance on a lecture cruise when Anne-Marie was already in her 90s. The level of betrayal is really scary. Sixsmith has done a remarkable amount of research and tells the story extremely well.
Anne-Marie died earlier this year at the age of 104. Despite not being a Jew herself she, and her husband Pim, have been honoured by Yad Vashem (the World Holcaust Remembrance Centre) as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
I have read many books on WW2, the Holocaust, concentration camps but nothing like this. Sixsmith is a wonderful storyteller and what a story he has to tell.
An amazing story of an amazing woman and her brave comrades in the Dutch resistance who the author (ex-BBC Martin Sixsmith) met by chance on a lecture cruise when Anne-Marie was already in her 90s. The level of betrayal is really scary. Sixsmith has done a remarkable amount of research and tells the story extremely well.
Anne-Marie died earlier this year at the age of 104. Despite not being a Jew herself she, and her husband Pim, have been honoured by Yad Vashem (the World Holcaust Remembrance Centre) as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
I have read many books on WW2, the Holocaust, concentration camps but nothing like this. Sixsmith is a wonderful storyteller and what a story he has to tell.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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You don't have a house in Rye do you? As I was on holiday with someone last week who recommended that
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One Day in September - Simon Reeve
Not me sir but having finished it I definitely recommend it. Really interesting in a morbid way
Auckland seagull
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A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
[A pedant writes] It's not 'despite', if she had been Jewish then she couldn't have been recognised as one of the the Righteous Among the Nations. It's an honour reserved for gentiles.
Sounds an interesting book. I'd not heard of her before
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Rambling on the Road to Rome - Peter Francis Browne
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Islands of Abandonment - Cal Flyn