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Reading for the 3rd time
read in July 2016
Chris Passingham said:
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I laughed a hundred times and cried twice. The part of this book where Linda was living in Paris makes a great comparison with Orwells "Down and out in Paris and London" when he was working as a plongeur and it could be said that the characters in Mi
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"I have only read a few pages but I haven't laughed so much in years already. Brilliant stuff!!!" — Apr 27, 2014 10:19PM
"I have only read a few pages but I haven't laughed so much in years already. Brilliant stuff!!!" — Apr 27, 2014 10:19PM
“He used to say you can judge a society by how it treats its cats.”
― The Cat and The City
― The Cat and The City
History is Not Boring
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Why do people think history is boring? I don't get it. ...more
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