I read this book recently, and loved it. Great sense of humour, and an interesting take on British life. Seemes there is a cure for depression if yuo put your mind to it, and your spade into the ground.

Have now added Bill Bryson's 'biography' of Shakespeare to the read pile. I've put inverted commas around the word biography because, frankly, he doesn't really tell you anything about the bard himself. He lets us know early on that all anyone knows for certain about his subject is the date he was born and christened in Stratford, that he married Anne Hathaway, that he lived in London and that he almost certainly wrote a load of plays. Oh, we also know the day he died. Bryson sets out to tell us all the things we don't and can't possibly know and takes the time time to debunk a lot of popular myths about the great man. The one thing he seems absolutely certain about is that Shakespeare's plays were in fact written by Shakespeare (this reminds me of a probably acropophical story about an academic who spent his life's work trying to prove that the Iliad wasn't written by Homer, but by another Greek of the same name!) He's quite amusing, as well as pretty convincing, in the final chapter where he pokes holes in all the theories ascribing Shakespeare's works to Francis Bacon and sundry others. I felt particularly pleased to learn that some of the leading proponents anti-Stratford conspiracy theories have names such as Looney, Silliman and Battey. Wonderful. I also found the details of the First Folio's printing a fascinating subject - apparently no two copies were the same! But, and it's a big but, I didn't really learn anything about Shakespeare beyond the fact that the there isn't anything to be learnt. And that's just frustrating. I don't really know why Bryson took the trouble to write this - obviously it's sold very well and thus made him a few quid - but still. It's not half as much fun as Shakespeare in Love

I love reality books iv read quite a few books about kids growing up in abusive homes and a few like a thousand suns etc, but i need some good new ones to read i love the cultural ones like book seller of kabul, not without my daughter, but werent keen on her other 2,although any subject is fine as long as its based on the truth im not in to novels, please help. p.s i hope i havent made any mistakes as im new to this site, its the first time iv wrote anything today x

indian alwayes happy
this is the spretual truth that all the indians who willing in to the santan dharma is always happy.in the sanatan dharma our encent for fathers deposits mor and more spritual wealth for us through the vedas and other spritual books.
The Gita
Gita is the book in witch all the humen problems answerd that time and till today if any probleme releted to life would be fased by the people and want to know about the solution this is hundread persent tru that the answer must be arised from the Gita
Karma
lord krisna say to do only karma not becouse of its result but become of prusarth.Any body who beleve in the theory of karma could not go through the sadness.he will alwayas happy.

Gosh, what a book!

A young woman (May) has her feet bound by her grandmother so she will be beautiful and catch herself a good husband. Unfortunately, the husband she catches isn't so great - she is the 4th wife and not treated awfully well. She runs away and becomes a prostitute in Shanghai where she meets her husband (a European) and this is the story of her life and the life of her niece who she (mentally) adopts, causing problems with her brother- and sister-in-law.

May's whole life is overshadowed by the shock of having those she trusts and loves hurting her so badly from the foot binding. She is a woman in the raw, doing what she has to do to survive and live a life with a little bit of self respect.

The effect of the deformity inflicted upon her has caused me to actually do a bit of research on this practice and it is shocking that this sort of thing went on in the name of beauty.

Shay Bourne becomes the first person in decades to be sentenced to death in New Hampsire, when he is found guilty of the cold-blooded killing of a policeman and his step daughter. After 11 years on Death Row, the end is coming for Shay. Until he sees a news piece about a young girl who urgently need a heart transplant.

June's Husband and daughter died at Shay Bourne's hand, and she thought her greatest desire was to see him killed. Then he remaining daughter is hospitalised, and she realises that there is something she wants even more : for Claire to live. Shay Bourne is offering June's daughter a miracle - a second chance. but at what cost.

WOULD YOU GRANT YOUR ENNEMY'S DYING WISH TO SAVE YOUR CHILD'S LIFE

I am in the middle of the book, i strongly recomend...

I haven't even finished it and I want to recommend it

This is set in Nigeria during the civil war in the 60's and is told from the viewpoint of a wealthy couple's house boy. I feel like I know the characters and I'll grieve when it's on the last page.

Bloody fascinating. I don't wanna put it down. Only resting when my eyes hurt.

It covers so many intricate details of Biafran life, I think it helped me to read about this now ... If you think our government is squeezing every last drop out of us check out what these people lived and died in. I think it will help you be able to cope with life in the UK.

I want to read history books now, talk to people who lived there.

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