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Katharine Hepburn biography
I have just today finished Kate: The Woman who was Katharine Hepburn by William J. Mann. It is book nine in my 2010 100 + Reading Challenge (I know, I am way behind!) A Very revealing biography of a Hollywood actress I have long admired, ever since I saw her in Little Women as Jo [...]
June 12, 2010
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100+ Reading Challenge Update
I am way behind with my goal of reading 100+ books this year.
I have been reading but slower than I’d like and I haven’t updated here for a while. So…here’s what I have been reading.
Worst of Days by Karen Kissane – This is a fact-driven and includes harrowing accounts of the devastating Victorian Bushfires on [...]
April 23, 2010
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Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
This is number five in my 100 + Reading Challenge. I adore these monologues by Alan Bennett. I picked up this book at a jumble sale in the Peak District about six years ago and it is a cherished bookshelf fixture.
Bennett’s monologues – performed for the BBC series by great British actors including Thora Hird, [...]
February 8, 2010
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Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail
This is the third book in my 2010 100+ Reading Challenge. Gen Buy by Kit Yarrow and Jayne O’Donnell was fascinating and disturbing in that I felt like a complete Gen X dork compared to the pampered, confident and style-aware Generation Y.
This book is geared at informing retailers how to tap into the powerful Gen [...]
January 18, 2010
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Lambs to the Slaughter by Debi Marshall
This is the second book in my 2010 100+ Reading Challenge. I have chosen grim reading so far – I do have a preference for true crime books – and Lambs to the Slaughter by Australian author Debi Marshall is very disturbing but compelling.
It is about Derek Ernest Percy, a child killer who has been [...]
January 8, 2010
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Soham: A Story of our Times by Nicci Gerrard
This is officially the first book read for my 2010 challenge of reading 100+ books.
Soham: A Story of Our Times by Nicci Gerrard uses the 2002 murder of British girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells as a narrative for the how and why society seems to have an over-emotional reaction to the deaths of people [...]
January 1, 2010
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100+ reading challenge 2010
This year I am going to read more. I am going to swap the tv viewing with reading and I have set myself an aim of reading 100 books (I won’t include picture books I read to my kids!). I will be charting my progress, including short reviews on this blog.
The challenge is being hosted [...]
January 1, 2010
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