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Advantages: A story full of love, courage and positivity
Disadvantages: the ending

I'm not a huge reader, i tend to read books about girls in the sun when im sunbathing on a beach on my own holidays! I've never read, or been interested in reading a biography. I dont knwo exactly what drew me to read this book in the first place but once i'd started i couldn't put it down. A thorough description of her childhood helps set the scene for the whole book and puts in place the strong loving bond that runs through the whole book. The ...
...should be an inspiration to everybody, not just with illness. It's initally very upsetting but as you get into the book you feel as though you can see how Caron coped and it becomes less upsetting and more uplifting. In the end, although you are prepared for what is coming, it is heart breaking. This book is amazing and has converted me to go on and read other biographies. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with time to read. ... Read review

Advantages: true story
Disadvantages: hard to put down

...finieshed reading this book ' no turning back' by joanne lees. It was a very good book, has recently been broadcasted on television although i am not a tv fan so read the book instead, this is a true story wrote by the author joanne lees, a book about her own experience. her boyfriend was killed in the australian outback while they were travelling, it reads on to explain how the media had managed to have people believe it may have been her and the ...
...the killer convicted guilty for murdering her boyfriend. A very very good book that just makes you want to keep reading more and more, it does have the predictable ending that you would want it to have but it really makes you want to keep reading, a very hard book to put down. ... Read review

Advantages: Candid account, frighteningly honest
Disadvantages: Dull in parts for fans of other clubs

Fans of Man City, Crewe, and now Nottingham Forest will find this an interesting read. Supporters of Leicester City and Celtic will simply devour it, as it covers golden periods for both clubs. Northern Ireland diehards will find some chapters uncomfortable - but this is a warts-and-all story, and all the better for it. It does, after all, cover his battle with depression, serious injury, sectarianism, and rejection (initially by Motherwell, and ...
...few football clubs and the odd girlfriend or two).It also contains the amazing revelation of his initial team position… Lenny is a living legend to Celtic fans and the inside story of the Road to Seville (the May 2003 UEFA Cup Final V Jose Mourinho's FC Porto) is superbly related. Generally speaking, no matter who you support, if the fans of your greatest rivals (in Lenny's case, Rangers) are driven to foaming apoplexy just by the sight of him, ... Read review

Advantages: Heartwarming easy read , gentle style with some quirky and funny moments .
Disadvantages: May be dull to some .

Lately I have been reading ‘Nobbut A Lad ‘ by Alan Titchmarsh .I found it an unpretentious read which flowed along at a nice gentle pace . Throughout the book I got the feeling that each chapter was written as honestly and accurately , as memory will allow. I found the beginning quite startling as , reading many of the early chapters rang so true with much of my early life . However on the whole the similarities were simply because , I was born within ...
...in Yorkshire also . Fair enough mine was a city childhood , but we regularly visited family who lived near Skipton ,so I found I could relate to his stories about life in the West Riding of Yorkshire ,during the 1950's . If you have never heard of Alan Titchmarsh here's a little information . Most English people became familiar with him when he was presenting Ground Force and other gardening programs on the BBC . More recently he has written a few ... Read review

Advantages: learn the method behind the melancholy
Disadvantages: not for the faint hearted

...doubt we must exclaim that Nick Drake was a musical magician and any biography on him is always going to come in second best to his music. Just saying the name Nick Drake brings a smile to my face as i here his resonating exceptional unique music in my head. For people who have never heard of Nick Drake i strongly urge you to go straight out and buy ‘Pink Moon’ (his third album). But remember do not listen and think of the rumours you’ve ...
...The book alone offers any Nick Drake fan an insight to his life. Whether you see it as depressing or inspirational will be left up to your own better judgement. Nick Drake the musician was obviously a terrorised man, even if his greatest terror was himself. The beginning of the book and the introduction to his early years offers a pleasant surprise and happiness which was present in Nicks life. His time at Malborough College and his first experiences ... Read review