Category: Book Review: Non-Fiction
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
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Inferno
“I was so preoccupied with the idea of losing my body, it had never occurred to me that I might lose my mind.”
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The Magic Feather Effect: Alternative Medicine and the Surprising Power of Belief
“Although this mystical energy has never been validated by science – by which I mean replicated, rigorous, controlled studies – I haven’t come here as a debunker.”
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How Love Actually Ruined Christmas (Or Colourful Narcotics)
“Still no explanation, even in the terms of an absurdist joke, why there are so many sea creatures at the nativity”
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Educated
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
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Intimations
“What was once necessary appears inessential; what was taken for granted, unappreciated and abused now reveals itself to be central to our existence. Strange inversions proliferate. People find themselves applauding a national health service that their own government criminally underfunded and neglected these past ten years. People thank God for ‘essential’ workers they once considered lowly, who not so long ago they despised for wanting fifteen bucks an hour.”
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The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: Power, Profits and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe
A business and fashion book that unpacks the success story that is the Jimmy Choo brand.
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Welsh Saints On The Mormon Trail
Historical fiction of the Welsh Saints who made their way to Salt Lake City in the 1800s.
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