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The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett Untold Stories by Alan Bennett - I'm immersed already in beautiful writing after just one chapter. The print is very small though. ... previous year – they never disappoint. Many of these diary entries have been collected in the volumes Writing Home and Untold Stories, both of which I can highly recommend. The former even contains the journals pertaining to the real Miss Shepherd. He is a treasure. ... Bear, and Thomas the Tank Engine stories, as well as the BBC's famous readings of The Wind in the Willows by Alan Bennett.
Audiobooks are still key for me since they soundtrack my daily commute. ... side, it covers lots of interesting evolutionary theories about why we act the way we do.
2. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett; I loved this - Bennett has such a wry sense of humour, and such a gift for describing someone's entire personality in a few words. I also liked the idea that ... ... get more exciting by the moment.
>18 kiwidoc, I’ve read all the books on your list except for Telling Tales. I love Alan Bennett and nearly hit the "put this in cart button" for it a few weeks ago, but my fingers froze or else I had to beetle off to battle with dust and Republicans.
>1 ... ... by Evelyn Davies
The Third Man by Graham Greene
The Third George by Jean Plaidy
The Madness of King George by Alan Bennett I'm reading Alan Bennett's UNTOLD STORIES and loving it. It's a little of everything, journal entries, essays, introductions. There's a moving account of his battle with colon cancer and an unforgettable piece about being assaulted with his partner Rupert Thomas while on vacation in Italy.
L ... ... from the Regina Library with a HUGE pile of books, including Martin Gilbert's ISRAEL: A HISTORY and Alan Bennett's UNTOLD STORIES, both of which are big enough to stun a TRex. I'll never make it through this pile in the 3-week loan period and I think I'm only allowed one renewal, since I ... I just finished The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett because when I picked it up, the premise was so interesting I couldn't stop, even though I was half-way through A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Fortunately, it's a small book and only took a few hours to read. I'm also reading ... ... by Patricia Tyrrell
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Innocent Blood by P D James
The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
Washing Line by Jez Alborough ... James
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Marquise of O by Heinrich Von Kleist
The Madness of King George by Alan Bennett
The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett
Lost and found by Carolyn Parkhurst
The inner circle T.C. Boyle
The book club by Mary Alice Monroe
Dark secret by Christine Feehan
Asylum by Nan Allen
Summer reading : a novel by Hilma Wolitzer
Liar's game by Eric Jerome Di ... From The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett:
"You don't put your life into your books. You find it there." ...
Have added The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim as well as The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett and The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George H. Nash to this weeks reading.
Touchstone for The Uncommon Reader not working - ... ... largely because I can't find a copy.
Listening to Front Row also reminded me that I hadn't read Alan Bennett's Untold Stories, which I am now reading and listening to the Reith Lectures also persuaded me to read The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs.
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