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===[[Confessions Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''  ''I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is a woman trying to remember.'' Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Bowling -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1911077686.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911077686/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In The Shadow of a Recovering MP Heroes by Nick de BoisNicholas Bowling]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|Politics and SocietyConfident Readers]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
SighLife as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most.Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker I Know Who You Are by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneAlice Feeney]]===
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Meet MeraAimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. SheRight now she's the latest in a line sort of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they person whom you think you know but can see for themselves't quite remember where from, but that's all about to change. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and That's a hunky man in an arranged marriage little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her future – after all, Merabefore and she knows that she's mothernot really Aimee Sinclair, the territoryshe's warrior queen, Ciara: Aimee is long deadsimply the name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. Mera doesnThat't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved s not at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh front of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So her mind though when she overhears her father request comes home one day and finds that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humanshusband, and kill the Atlantis heirBen Bailey, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herselfhas disappeared. Disappeared completely. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Mera: Tidebreaker I Know Who You Are by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Poster Boy Liberation Square by N J CrosskeyGareth Rubin]]===
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I first read 1984 in schoolIn an alternate 1952, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the futureSoviet Troops control British Streets. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to pass. Othersbe rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was and Americans from the datewest. Crosskey hasn't put a date on Dividing the nightmare. If she hadnation between them, I suspect it would not be as far London soon finds itself split in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she hadtwo, I suspect a wall running through it might hardly be in like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the future at all. A lot murder of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' his former wife, Jane is already happening. Sadly. Frighteninglydetermined to clear his name. In the blurbdoing so, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to turn its fiction into reality". My only response the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to that is: too late! stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Poster Boy Liberation Square by N J CrosskeyGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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When you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit[[image:5star. The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'd had as a childjpg|link=Category: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the top bunk. The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Critical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is turning wild and Rose doesn't know what to do. And now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school trip. Will the trip fix their sibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[Not My Fault by Cath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Martine Lupo -->
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===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionTeens|Science FictionTeens]]  ''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.'' ''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
The problem with Martine's fiction debut So, Lena is that she makes the two commonest errors a cryptling - a low caste individual living in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the side city of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does both, but itDuke's a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the book stumblesForest. [[A Memory Called Empire We Are Blood And Thunder by Arkady MartineKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ Things in Jars by Uk-Bae LeeJess Kidd]]===
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There A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a place on this earth thatprevious case, at where the child was not found in time of writing. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is resplendent Victorian London, with life. In all the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for fear of being slashed open on space beside superstition and a fascination with the razor wire bizarre and the humans have put downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in place, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. In Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the autumntobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, salmon come upstreamwhat an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and dielet's say recreational, if they reach their birthing groundscreated by her chemist friend Prudhoe. Mountain goats gambol prettily among The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing soby. This Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is a snapshot also somewhat remarkable. And then, of life in course, there's the DMZghost. Ruby Doyle, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their nameworld famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuarydetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ Things in Jars by Uk-Bae LeeJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy Beneath the World, A Sea by Eleanor O'ReillyChris Beckett]]===
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The Augustts areSouth America, like all families1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a bit complicatedmysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. A loving irish familyThese silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their love binds them together – innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but all express that in very different ways. Howeverthe closer he gets, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order more he begins to understand each other againunravel, as with a family as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the most senseterrifying results. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[M for Mammy Beneath the World, A Sea by Eleanor O'ReillyChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for RicherWhere the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Happier Days Book 2) by James WallmanM J Lee]]===
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Most things you can replace, but one of the things which you simply canIt really shouldn't replace is time. Even though we know this, we fail to use what we have wiselyhappened. We have more leisure timeDI Ridpath, but conscious thathis relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law's not how house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it feels: was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a high value is pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly put his hands on how we spend our working hours, but thereRidpath's car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a low value on leisureman with a gun. Unfortunately we This was now know how to work a crime scene and not how to ''live'': we need to ''learn'' how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on the onerous task resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the least of teaching us how to do thisRidpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for RicherWhere the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Happier Days Book 2) by James WallmanM J Lee|Full Review]]
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Brash and elegantEnid Campbell was a woman who, sophisticatedon the face of it, controversial had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and vibrantsplendour, the 1889 Worldglamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's Fair in Paris encompassed the bestlife has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, the worst untreated and the beautiful from many countries threatening both Enid and culturesthose close to her. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their coloniesAfter losing custody of her children, put on art showsEnid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, dance performancesor an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, food festivals and concerts to stun Eleanor Anstruther has found the senses. And towering above it allperfect subject for an explosive, the most popular moving and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Towerbeautifully well written debut. [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People A Perfect Explanation by Jill JonnesEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew 55 by Milly JohnsonJames Delargy]]===
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I liked this book. Whilst not necessarily Two men enter a page-turnerpolice station, this was both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to kill them. As they escaped they ran through a thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from graveyard and they were not the Queen of chick litfirst victim. The stories match, Milly Johnsonthe evidence is compelling and each man blames the other. Now the question is, who is guilty? [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew 55 by Milly JohnsonJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Lord Of All the Dead by Kate ToughJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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Life has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settledLord Of All the Dead''. Then Mark announced that he'd got is a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted journey to come with him or not. The uncover the author's lost ancestor'nots life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle'' bit of the sentence was s death in the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her ownSpanish Civil War. WellManuel Mena, she wasnCercas't completely on her own: she had friends and familygreat uncle, but it's not is the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone figure who makes you part of a couplelooms large over the book. So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and thereHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's a lot of difference between being in forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the middle centre of your twenties and this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the middle of your thirtieswrong side. [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Lord Of All the Dead by Kate ToughJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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The story had begun some twenty years earlier when two boys raped It's the near future, and killed Sophie Nichollevery coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. Jack Mackay was - on But the face rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of it - from a decent family, but course – first he was patching up the ringleader. Daniel Simpson was a followerdams, but now he still raped Sophie and he could have stopped what happened but didn't. Sophies mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's body was found in a shallow grave by an enthusiastic cocker spaniel a few days later and perfect for blocking the boys were arrestedsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, tried and sentenced to five years in a young offenders institution. There were those who thought that Wyndermere, the refugees from the sentence was too lenient, even coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for fifteen-year-old boys and Sophie's elder brotherbeing newcomers, Tom, was one but something else is much worse. A major bout of thesefood poisoning is hitting the city. He wasnBut it can't going possibly have anything to let do with what looks like sabotage of the matter rest. flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Kerry WattsRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Flew Confessions of a Recovering MP by Fleur HitchcockNick de Bois]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|Confident ReadersPolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
Sigh.
 
Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
Athan Wilde earns some money to supplement his family's meagre income by working for Mr Chen who is both mentor and friend. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination and sense of the future has led him to create some fantastic inventions for making life easier and work less back breaking. His latest endeavour is something on an entirely different level, however - it's a.... ''flying machine''At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! Imagine that! [[The Boy Who Flew Confessions of a Recovering MP by Fleur HitchcockNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[The Savage Shore Mera: Tidebreaker by David HewsonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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Reggio, in CalabriaMeet Mera. ItShe's the latest in a strange place, closer to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himselfline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. He was an illegal immigrant Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and like most of his kind he was simply looking for a way to earn a decent living with a little dignity. Back hunky man in Nigeria he was an independent man and now he arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is no better than long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the monkey who sits in a cage on cosseting or the bar he tends. The area fella involved at all, and is ruled by in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the Mafiacosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. Further afield there are So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the Camorra world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Cosa NostraAtlantis heir, but here it's she rushes off to get the 'Ndrangheta quest (and the local boss is known as Lo Spettro - the ghost - as he's rarely seenpromised throne) all for herself. But of course, but he's one she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the Bergamotti clan, but even that's not their real name. job done… [[The Savage Shore Mera: Tidebreaker by David HewsonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out Poster Boy by Cara HunterN J Crosskey]]===
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It was I first read 1984 in school, in the end of late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the Christmas holidays future. It came and Felix House in an elite area went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of Oxford was on firerelief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Two children were dragged from the inferno: oneOthers, a toddlerI think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was pronounced dead at the scene and the other, date. Crosskey hasn't put a boy date on the cusp of his teens, died in hospital some days laternightmare. But where were the parents? Were their bodies If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in what remained of the house and which future are 1984 was being steadily clearedwhen I first read Orwell. If she had, or had they left I suspect it might hardly be in the children future at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley it's one of his most disturbing casesall. He's still not got over the death A lot of what happens in ''his'Poster Boy' son and there's every sign that his marriage is on the rocksalready happening. For his team Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it's just a heartbreaking, exhausting casefar from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[No Way Out Poster Boy by Cara HunterN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics Critical Incidents by Rachel ReevesLucie Whitehouse]]===
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''Women When you reach a certain stage in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and life the perception of what women can dophrase 'going home'when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles the battles the 491 women woman who have been elected over the course of the past century have fought and highlights their victories. It is remarkable that the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918used to be DCI Robin Lyons, the same year in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women were given suffrage on equal terms with men. Although Constance de Markievicz was the first female elected to Parliamentnow just Robin Lyons, it went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became dismissed from the first women to take her seat in the House of Commons and pave the way for women of the futureMet. It She was not long after in 1924 that going home to the first female MP, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed into room which she'd had as a cabinet position and since then women MPs child: she would have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rights. Within 100 years there has been a gradual revolution of change in politics the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to date Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministers. However, such great landmarks those who knew her well - would have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlookedtop bunk. In ''Women The room was redolent of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politicsthe time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019t good memories. [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics Critical Incidents by Rachel ReevesLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineA Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
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Dr Jaq Silver The problem with Martine's fiction debut is a brilliant scientist with a healthy social life who loves her work that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and life. Whilst she is haunted by wants her past she won't let it define her. When she becomes entangled in a mystery, a mystery that could tie fictional languages to some be complex and rich and errs on the side of the making them unpronounceable by most horrific weapons on Earthreaders. I can see why she does both, she doesnbut it't hesitate and jumps straight in. We follow Jaq as she travels the world digging deeper and deeper into s a rabbit-hole of intrigue and betrayal, never compromising and always seeking disappointment because they're the truth. From blocks against which the ski slopes brilliance of Eastern Europe, to the sunny climes of Portugal and even making a visit to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thrillerbook stumbles. [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineA Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Uk-Bae Lee]]===
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It strikes me There is a place on this earth that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity time of white man against Native 'Indian'writing, who spends days being physically sick while indulging is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man river – and womannot venturing too far, for fear of course – can turn against fellow man at being slashed open on the razor wire the bat of an eyelidhumans have put in place. But this book is about so much more than In the 1870s USAautumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocidehills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. He finds himself trying to find this book's version This is a snapshot of Utopialife in the DMZ, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads demilitarized zone between the two countries with rocks Korea in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravityname, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and thereit's the world's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Equator When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Uk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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