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June 1,
Best of the web - Recommended Blog - The Middle Class Handbook

The Middle Class Handbook is one of those contrived blogs, put together to promote a book, or the idea of a book, but don't let that put you off.  It's actually quite funny, sometimes a bit rude, but usually entertaining, and perfect for anyone who has attended one of my "class" classes.  (I know I […]

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October 22,
Best of the web - Recommended Blog - The Write Inspiration

Confessions of an aspiring novelist - aka The Write Inspiration is a writers blog from an aspiring author, a woman called Sinead who lives in Ireland.  Here you can follow her frustrations and triumphs online.  Here is an extract:- I've been writing books, short stories and poems ever since I could hold a pen (my colouring books […]

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April 1,
Best of the web - Recommended Blog - The Inky Fool

The Inky Fool is a blog about words, phrases, grammar, rhetoric and prose.  The last two words will give you a clue that this is not a blog for beginners, but it's fun and well written.

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February 1,
Recommended Web Site

Storyline online - Describes itself as a streaming video program featuring famous people reading children's books aloud, and that's exactly what it is!  Actors like Ernest Borgnine and James Earl Jones, read children's books, and these aren't like the kind of books and stories I have to share, these are current books still under copyright.  […]

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November 1,
Recommended Blog - November

Crap days out has been chosen by hubby as the blog of the month for November.   You might be surprised at this tongue in cheek look at some of the entries of the worst places to visit in the UK:  From Stonehenge to Madame Tussauds, Shakespeare’s birthplace to the Harry Potter Tour, model villages to […]

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November 1,
The Happiness Project - English Book of the Month

Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

The book of the month this month goes nicely with our current topic in the conversation sessions - happiness.  In the book, Gretchen Rubin has an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realises. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decides to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
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