Katherine the Great

Advantages: A great read (if you like this sort of thing, obviously)
Disadvantages: No longer in print, so getting hold of a copy isn't as easy as popping down to Waterstones

...I'll make no bones about it - this is one of my favourite books. It's been everywhere with me (holidays, conferences, hospital... you name it) and every time I pick it up it's like seeing an old friend again. The book is very well written, and is even more impressive when you realise that the people in the book were real. Obviously I don't want to give away all the ins and outs of the story, as Anya Seton writes it far better than I ever could, but as these were real people, and their existence was well documented, a few historical facts won't spoil anything! All I'll say is, if you historical novels light your candle, then give this one a go. Right, time for the history lesson... Katherine de Roet was born in Picardy in the 14th century, and travelled to England with her sister Philippa (who later married Geoffrey Chaucer...

Victoria_R 11.09.2003 · Read review
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Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
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...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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Angelina Ballerina Dances Her Way Into My Daughter's Dreams

Advantages: Beautifully illustrated. Lovely Story.
Disadvantages: Ballet specific terms may confound some (like me!)

...is written by American author Katharine Holabird and is illustrated by Helen Craig, a Londoner now resident in Cambridgeshire. They have been working together on the series since its creation in 1983, which, along with the twenty-one original books has spawned a plethora of merchandise including DVD?s, games, ballet accessories, TV shows as well as dolls and other toys. In 2001, HIT entertainment, who also own the Bob the Builder, Fifi and the Flowertots and Thomas franchises, created an animated TV series which aired in the UK from 2001. An all-new animated series is slated for Autumn release in the UK on Nick Jr. PRICE & AVAILABILITY ?Angelina Ballerina? is the first in the series, and our edition is a 24 page hard cover published in 2001 by Puffin (an imprint of Penguin). It measures around 8 inches by 10 (slightly smaller...

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  When love is the religion there's no sin...

Advantages: Enveloping, romantic, historic, unforgettable, cultural
Disadvantages: Abrupt changes of pace

...Last night at exactly 3am I finished the book ?Katherine? by Anya Seton. This book was sent to me by an elderly friend who I first met online, and then a few weeks later, in person, when she visited the Algarve. We spent two afternoons talking about books on a café by the sea and she told me about this book being her favourite. Of course, it did not take much to convince me that it was good as she explained that part of it was set in Lincolnshire, where she now lives and where I lived for two brief years. In fact, our internet ?meeting? started with her posting a message on a forum about wishing to be here in the Algarve and me replying if she wished to swap! Just over a week after her return to the UK the book arrived in my house with a lovely letter. = THE BOOK = If my friend told me that the book was...

lazuli77 09.12.2004 · Read review
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A pure heart is full of goodness: Calon lân

Advantages: Clear, charming and soulful voice
Disadvantages: She is young, talented, pretty and intellegant and I'm jealous

...I received Second Nature, Katherine Jenkins?s second album, as a Christmas present. The past year has been very successful for this welsh songstress. Her debut album, Premiere reached number one in the UK classical charts in April of 2004 and stayed there for eight weeks. Second Nature was released on 18th October 2004 hit the number one slot in January of this year. Katherine Jenkins rose from relative obscurity to become one of British?s rising stars. She?s blonde, slim and beautiful (as a glimpse at the cover will reveal); she?s intelligent (9 Grade A GCSEs, 4 A levels, an Honours degree in Music); she?s young (only 24 ? what a potential future she could have) and she?s enormously talented (this mezzo soprano has a brilliant, crystal-clear and versatile voice). Accompanied by the National Youth Choir of Wales, Katherine sings...

MAFARRIMOND 17.01.2005 · Read review
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YAMAHA DVD-S 557 this is THE DVD player of all time.

Advantages: Brilliant DVD player, perfect quality
Disadvantages: cant think of any

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Yet another autobiographical tale of woe...

Advantages: Passes a couple of hours
Disadvantages: Lacking substance

...before, it's all research for when I write my autobiography! The Author Katherine Shellduck was born in the East End of London in the 1960s. She now lives in Australia with her two children and is a qualified teacher and journalist. The Story The book begins as Kathy sets the scene with her violent and abusive (verbally and physically) father, and we are introduced to her world. Her older sister Bud (the bossy one), her non-identical twin Tigs (who will go nowhere without her beloved football), younger sister Lu (the beauty and brains of the sisters), her mother, and her nanny (her mum's mum). Whilst looking for sweets one day, Kathy comes across a bag full of bloody knives and clothes, and she's confused as to what this means. Then her mother gets a new job and is never around, but suddenly there is...

marymoose99 16.04.2008 · Read review
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Reading in the Bath

Advantages: A wealth of facts, anecdotes and quotations to keep you highly entertained.
Disadvantages: First few chapters are a bit of a chore.

...Canadian writer Katherine Ashenburg takes us through centuries of filth and bad odour, washing and bathing in Western societies, from Homer's Greece through to the malodorous middle ages and right up to our present day over-sanitised age where a multi-billion dollar advertising industry incessantly manipulates us into eliminating or disguising our natural human odours at all costs. I requested this book as a present after reading a review about it in a weekend newspaper. The topic seemed original and I thought it would be interesting to compare our clean obsessed society with those of times gone when, as Ashenburg writes; "the scent of one another's bodies was the ocean our ancestors swam in" - a time when a bar of soap was a rare thing, keeping clean meant changing your shirt and having a good wash meant sprinkling some water on your...

Zmugzy 16.04.2009 · Read review
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Advantages: up to date dvds, four weeks free hire with 3 dvds at a time,
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...My recent quest for FREE DVD hire I visited and many DVD web sites that offered a free trial. Now call me tight (no that wasn?t an invite), but I like bargains and freebies and am not ashamed to say so. My quest took me to enough sites to hire DVDs for about four months so far (with plenty to come too). My latest free DVD site also happens to be the best I have tried for several reasons (see rest of op); the site in question is Blockbuster.co.uk. Other sites that I have had free rentals from and then cancelled have all been similar, two weeks free trial with two DVD?s per time ? which in effect gives you about four free DVD?s. With Blockbuster?s things are different slightly ? which add a great deal of benefit to us the customer. Firstly, you get FOUR whole weeks free rental, which equates to at double the length of time most...

dabmim 18.06.2004 · Read review
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