Reviews by Sian Williams
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Rick and Bubba's Guide to the Almost Nearly Perfect Marriage (Reviewed 9/29/2009)Rick and Bubba's Guide to the Almost Nearly Perfect MarriageBy Rick Burgess and Bill "Bubba" BusseyLiving on the other side of The Pond, I had never before heard of "Rick and Bubba", but the book looked rip-roaringly funny and I decided I simply had to read it. I wondered what their take on marriage ...
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Reviewed 9/29/2009)A Million Miles in a Thousand YearsWhat I Learned While Editing My LifeBy Donald MillerThis is a *fascinating* book.The author, Donald Miller , was invited to collaborate in adapting his best-selling memoir into a screenplay for a film. The adaptation rapidly took on a very different slant to the life ...
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Fearless (Reviewed 9/8/2009)"Fearless" by Max Lucado.I settled to read "Fearless" with keen interest. Fear can lead to reliance on drink, drugs or rage to numb the fear. Left unchecked, fear can dominate our lives instead of faith. Just about everything that can cause us to be fearful is mentioned: violence, illness, death, fear ...
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It Happened In Italy (Reviewed 7/4/2009)"It Happened In Italy" by Elizabeth Bettina In Poland, 90% of the Jewish population died, yet only 20% of Italian Jewry died. Why ?At a chance meeting, the author was given a copy of a doctoral thesis containing photos of Jews in her ancestral village. This was the start of an amazing trail of serendipitous ...
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The Noticer (Reviewed 4/27/2009)How would you react if an elderly gentleman walked up to you, called you by your name, and told you things about yourself that it was impossible for him to know ?Would you regard him as a weirdo, a con-artist, a saint, an angel sent by God? I certainly don’t know how I would react.In Andy Andrews’ ...
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The Great Eight (Reviewed 4/22/2009)“The Great Eight” by Scott Hamilton.I remember watching Scott Hamilton winning his Olympic gold medal for skating back in 1984.His book, “The Great Eight” shares some of his skating secrets as well as his "attitude to life" secrets.His childhood was plagued by illness. His discovery of skating ...
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Boomtown (Reviewed 2/5/2009)Boomtown, by Nowen N. ParticularThis is a superb, good-humoured, rollicking older children's adventure story of a preacher and his family moving to an unusual town which has a fireworks factory. Within minutes of their arrival, they cause chaos, but are accepted whole-heartedly by the inhabitants, some ...
