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You can live multiple lives ... form the comfort of your own desk - and that can be anywhere in the world.
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The House on Schellberg Street
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2014
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The Complete Guide to Learning a Language
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2003
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The Prophecy
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2008
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Babel
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2011
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Spooking
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2012
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Clara's Story: A Holocaust Biography (The Schellberg Cycle Book 2)
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The Best of CaféLit 12
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The Best of CaféLit 4
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140 x 140
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Girl in a Smart Uniform (The Schellberg Cycle Book 3)
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Keeping the Lid on Social Media
Social media can be a boon and it certainly can help the isolated writer feel more connected with the world. During the Covid 19 pandemic it has probably been a life-line for many. It is powerful tool. But it also may become a tyrant and we have to make sure we master it and it doesn’t master us.
I start my day with a visit to either Twitter, Linked-in or Facebook. This time of year though,
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“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.”
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| This is a very engaging story of four generations of women. The setting is also enticing an covers some places I know very well..Ruth Jones captures them well.. | |
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three young women who disappear and the friend they leave behind. WE have to get o know a lot of oharcters. e..g. the one left behind, the journalist who sets up a pod cast about the case, the mothereof the girl left behind. We are kept guessing righ ...more |
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| As ever Jacqueline Wilson brings us characters we love and creates convincing setting and story . In this book we meet characters we've met before. Now Star and Dolphin are as old as Marigold was when we first met her. I was however a little disappoi ...more | |
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| I read a lot of works set in the 19140a and \World WarII, usually about civilian life. This is fascinating because it's a soldier's account, Serancke went through many of the same situations thatsd my fathrrm.tedr. I wonder whether they ever met. We ...more | |
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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