The difficulty of kindness
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My friend Fiona Stager at Avid Reader suggested a marvellous book to me recently called Wonder by RJ Palacio which we are reading in our family and which I’d suggest to anyone who can read a book.Read More
The national year of what?
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One of my friends – whose hometown of Melbourne has lost all her favourite bookstores – says those of us left who love books and places to gather about them need to form co-operatives that fund bookstores and libraries, like we’d fund a food co-op. I'm in.
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In two weeks, In Falling Snow will be out in the world. It's been over ten years since I first read about Miss Ivens and the other doctors who took it upon themselves to travel to France and there build a hospital for wounded French soldiers in an old, old abbey during WWI, risking all for what they believed in.
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