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Advantages: Inspirational, extremely personal
Disadvantages: Will always be overlooked as its 'fake'.

Oh god he's at it again, I'm sure the groans are going out around the world of Ciao right now, but yep - as I sit here watching Wrestlemania 22 I bring myself to think of how a book can inspire you to do better, or how it can inspire you to overcome bad times in your life. A quick introduction to who Lita actually is, needless to say as its a wrestling autobiography that this review is about, Lita (real name Amy Dumas) is a member of the WWE (formerly ...
...this means that she is a female wrestler or as WWE would prefer you to see it - she's a 'WWE Diva' which means that when they do the photo-shoots with women stripping down to bikini's in various locations around the world - more often than not there'll be pictures of Lita involved. Now on reading that previous paragraph you'd be forgiven for thinking of Lita as little more than the American equivalent of the UK's Page 3 girls, even more so when ... Read review

Advantages: A very open and honest look at Numan's Career
Disadvantages: Some parts seem to repeat two or three times, Not for Celtic fans

While on my Dad's side of the family we are Carlisle United fans on my mums side they tend to favour Glasgow Rangers. In fact from a young age I was brought up as both a fan of Carlisle and Rangers but as the years have gone by and I got older Carlisle came to the fore with Rangers becoming a club I looked out for. Over the years though there have been some truly memorable players pulled on the Blue jersey at Ibrox and one of my favourites has to ...
...in 1998 after the World Cup and played for the club over 5 years. While Numan himself isn't a universally known superstars like David Beckham or Steven Gerrard the chance to read his autobiography seemed like one I couldn't pass up. The book itself details his career from humble beginnings with his local team in Holland, through his moves to Haarlem, Twente, PSV and finally to Ibrox. He also goes into detail about his international career and unlike ... Read review

Advantages: Informative, interesting to read!
Disadvantages: None

This was an excellent book about the difficult life of a young chinese girl who was mistreated my her cruel stepmother. This book had me in tears reading it but i found myself unable to put it down, i cannot wait to read the sequel "Falling Leaves".I disagree strongly with droopy13's review as their is no whinging tone to the book it is merely an account of Adeline's childhood. Adaline did have a very understanding relationship with her grandfather ...
...approval from her father. She was not the only child in the household to be mistreated, as where all 5 of her mothers children though both her stepmother's children where spoilt rotten! Prime examples of this where when the dog killed her only friend , a pet duck named PLT and when she is sent to a boarding school during a war and was left there. This story is made even more heart-wrenching by the fact that it is completely true and is an excellent ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting, easy to read
Disadvantages: Don't read if your easily offended

The blurb on the back of the book reads:- Abby Lee is smart, sassy, and perpetually single. Frustrated with her love-life, she's now looking for the kind of sex she's always wanted. This is the intimate diary of her extraordinary journey. Never one to turn down an opportunity - even if it does include the use of a whip, the thrill of the outdoors, or the involvement of a third party - Abby enthusiastically romps her way through a series of one-night ...
...in her sexual quest, Abby meets Blog Boy and begins to wonder: will she ever be able to give up the bed-hopping and finally settle down? I wasn't sure whether I would enjoy this book as I have read other erotic memoirs such as The Sexual Life of Catherine M and The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker by Suzanne Portnoy. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Aby writes with extreme frankness so if you are easily offended, I would not advise ... Read review

Advantages: Great introduction to Bennett.
Disadvantages: Quite pricey for a short book.

‘Telling Tales’ by Alan Bennett does exactly what it says on the cover… Alan Bennett, one of the country’s best loved wordsmiths, tells ten tales about his childhood in Leeds, a provincial city in the West Riding where life generally tended to avoid. In several of the tales Bennett details the causes of his frustration as a youth – he knew that his family was very ordinary (not working class, but certainly not middle class), yet at the same time ...
...that life for everyone else was much different to hers and that the cocktail party lifestyle she read about in Woman’s Own was the norm and attainable by a move to the hallowed ‘down South’. We learn much about Bennett’s ‘Mam and Dad’ (so good to see the word Mam, I feel I’m one of the few who still uses it). Their real names were Lil and Walt, but as in many households, the birth of the first child sees real names being wrapped in paper and only ... Read review