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I read to my four year old twins Lucy and Joshua on a daily basis. The pleasure I get from this is beyond description. Similarly although at the start of their reading experinece, the pride they feel when they become aware that their reading in turn has a profound effect of me is a wonderful thing to share. So that is what it's all about for me. The power of the written word and the interpreta… Mehr dazuI read to my four year old twins Lucy and Joshua on a daily basis. The pleasure I get from this is beyond description. Similarly although at the start of their reading experinece, the pride they feel when they become aware that their reading in turn has a profound effect of me is a wonderful thing to share.
So that is what it's all about for me. The power of the written word and the interpretation of those words to move, to change, to engage me on a myriad of differing level. That's why I pick up books.
My tastes are eclectic, the last book I read was a narrative of the first battle of Manassas, before that a crime novel and before that an account of the 1996 climb of Mount Everest. My reading theme right now however is the American Civil War.
If you are at all interested I'm 34, by desire I'm married to Mandie, by choice a vegetarian, by conscience politically left wing , by chance an atheist, live in England but would like at some point to live in the USA, I'm a counsellor and manage a counselling service for people with alcohol related problems.
I can't sing, can't dance, play the guitar - badly, make a really good vegetarian curry (but always over cook the rice!) enjoy reading in the bath, can do three or four magic tricks, according Lucy and Joshua I'm the best Bucking Bronco in the world and I once had to go to the ER with a knitting needle in my ear - boy did it hurt but I got that itch!
So that's me in five paragraphs!
Go well
Simon
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So much did this novel disturb me that at times when I wanted to put it down (mainly to sleep) I had to read on to find a place in the story line at which I could leave it. If a book, any book has such an effect on me as a reader then it's done its job! Every Dead Thing is written in the first person (not my favourite style to read) and what emerges is a novel that is both individualistic yet somehow collective in that it taps into a variety of common human insecurities: the death of those close to us, the abuse of the innocent and the chill of our personal destiny being controlled by another. For his first novel John Connolly has written an outstanding thriller that is crammed… Mehr dazu
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So much did this novel disturb me that at times when I wanted to put it down (mainly to sleep) I had to read on to find a place in the story line at which I could leave it. If a book, any book has such an effect on me as a reader then it's done its job! Every Dead Thing is written in the first person (not my favourite style to read) and what emerges is a novel that is both individualistic yet somehow collective in that it taps into a variety of common human insecurities: the death of those close to us, the abuse of the innocent and the chill of our personal destiny being controlled by another. For his first novel John Connolly has written an outstanding thriller that is crammed… Mehr dazu
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4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Peace at Last by Jill Murphy is a wonderful little book that is just right for bedtime stories. It's the tale of a drowsy Mr Bear as his attempts at sleep are disrupted by Mrs Bear's snoring, baby Bear's playing, clocks and cats, taps and owls (something no matter how old, we can all relate to). The text is easy to follow and the artwork is ideal for little ones. My four-year-old twins - Lucy and Joshua - adore this book, it was one of their first and we'll be reading it long after others have lost their appeal.
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