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Placeholder for The Chocolate Letters: York Men and the Great War by Rosemary Anderson (ISBN 9780992857714) until the same is added to GR.

Sorry not sorry - I will be taking away one star from whatever my final rating was going to be because of the footnote where the author, at age 16, suggests to the producer of Man of La Mancha to cut "The Impossible Dream." As an adult, he says, "I still think the world might be better for this," as if his knowledge of the lyrics will soften whatever point he thinks he's clever for trying to make here.

Recommended by a friend. The reviews on here do not inspire, but we'll see.

“Cheekiest thing” should read “cheekiest food item,” but whatever.

This is a niche one. But I know already it will easily get five stars from me because I’m just obsessed with the show.

I know I'm grumpy this morning but am already put off by the introduction calling the early 1800s the "world of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist" when Dickens wasn't even born until 1812.

“Money had never been of any importance to her: but now she realised that lots of it is more pleasantly unimportant than none.”

“This was not reading for pleasure, it was reading for dear life.”

Annoying. If you’re going to write a Czech character and include some words from his native language, maybe check whether the words are correct and they make sense. Even if 99.9% of the readers can’t tell the difference, there may be one who can and is completely taken out of the moment as a result.

"Her country is a dream she remembers once having."

Made it only to page five before my mouth started watering.

Bit disappointing that in the middle of a strong feminist argument she lists transcendentalist poets and misspells Emily Dickinson’s name, and not Thoreau or Hawthorne or Whitman.

Started this audiobook because they made it into a film. A few pages in, "huh, he was born in West Orange, that's the next town over from my hometown, interesting. Small world." A few more and Charlie Cullen marries in Livingston; the story comes home as Cullen start his new job in St Barnabas. Turns out, he and my mother were COLLEAGUES for two and a half years, and he still worked at Barnabas WHEN I WAS BORN.

Hopefully, in the time since publication someone has informed the author that his chapter on Christmas is titled “Velikonoce,” Easter.

“The job of a reviewer used to be telling people what’s worth their money but now it’s telling people what’s worth their time.”

"Nothing with passion is ever as simple as heads or tails. Sometimes you're the guy who just wants a bunch of coins."

Have already laughed out loud at so many points. Current favourite is: "I can be one of the guys, as long as the guys in question have a favorite song from Les Mis. Otherwise I'm hopeless."

"Money never gave me more than my heart would let it."

"No memories hurt more than happy ones that you can never get back."

"RBG told charming and self-deprecating stories about her family, holding up a book made by [her daughter] Jane's son Paul called My Grandma is Very Special. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Joe Biden commented, 'I will tell you, Paul, the handwriting is good, the pictures are beautiful and you don't need a publisher.'"

“But what it takes to get there isn’t what you need once you’ve arrived.”

"...I concluded that America was a fine place for the healthy and successful, but for the strugglers and the infirm, for the people who, through no fault of their own but through accidents of birth, prejudice or illness were less able to help themselves, it was a harsh society where only the fittest survived."

"We were still young enough to be immortal."

"...be careful when choosing what you're proud of - because the world has every intention of using it against you."

"There are men who, under any circumstances, will have the courage to do their duty at every hazard." Federalist 73

"Contrary to many of his compatriots, Hamilton thought America had much to learn from Europe[...]. 'Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country,' he wailed to John Jay. (This attitude was of a piece with his dismay over the Jeffersonian faith that Americans had much to teach the world but little to learn from it.)"