A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books - Alberto Manguel

Advantages: Hilarious
Disadvantages: None!

...to care for Bert for many years. Sabre Berts alsatian. Feared by all Queenie Old lady Bert meets and falls in love with in the old folks home. They get married. Sadly, she dies. Nigel. Adrians best friend. Gay. Rich. Pandora. Love of Adrians Life. Treacle hair. Ph.D Tania and Ivan Pandoras parents. Hippies. Friendly with Adrians parents. Pop Eye Scruton Adrians school headteacher. Very strict. Suspends Adrian and friends after they decide to disobey school rules by wearing the wrong kind of socks. *** The Mole Diaries are definately my favourite books of all time. I never tire of reading them and have just recently started reading them again. The first book was made into a TV programme by the BBC, which is available on VHS on Amazon. I have never seen it, and I doubt it would be as good... Read review

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Advantages: Good for keeping memories
Disadvantages: Might forget to fill it in

...a birthday party. It has the same border as the “Getting on the move” page. It asks for a photograph of the birthday guests and their names. Also, there’s a chart where you can write what the child got and who they were from. There’s a big space in the top left hand corner where you can place the child’s first photograph of them one year old. It asks for the weight and how long they were. I will stop there for now but there’s still is a lot more in the book which I will continue in due course. I wouldn’t like to think I was going on, but if you like, I will update this review with the rest of the pages. Other pages in the book are called: -My first presents -My first year portrait gallery -First haircut -My naming day -Favourite toys -Animals in my life -Looking back at my first... Read review

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Advantages: interesting, nice to read, not boring
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...I have one more novel that I´d like to introduce to you. It´s called "The diary of Ellen Rimbauer - My life at Rose Red". I´ve read this book in the English edition and don´t even know what it is called here in Germany, but I guess you don´t care about that anyway. ABOUT THE AUTHOR °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° This is a bit difficult. On the book is written Joyce Reardon and an epilogue by Steven Rimbauer. In the book itself are no reverences to other authors. Nevertheless Stephen King fans actually know that the whole thing was kind of a "trick" of him and in the beginning people even speculated if he himself wrote this book, because the style is very similar to his own novels. Meanwhile the real author of the book is known, it is Ridley Pearson, an American author of thrillers who workes as an author since the 70s. He... Read review

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