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Beautifully written with an insider’s knowledge, compassion and understanding, In The Mood For Peace: The Story of the Izzy Doll by Phyllis Wheaton is an important true story about one Canadian military family’s ultimate sacrifice and determination to leave this world a better place in the face of war, death and destruction. It’s also about all of the good work being done by various humanitarian organizations in Canada to help ease the suffering of survivors of war and poverty around the world.
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 On the inside jacket cover of Keith Richard’s autobiography, Life, it reads in Keith’s handwriting: “This is the Life. Believe it or not I haven’t forgotten any of it. Thanks and praises, Keith Richards”.
Well, it seems pretty amazing to me that Keith could remember everything that has happened to him in his extraordinary life, considering I’m 21 years younger and can’t remember everything about my own less than extraordinary life and haven’t consumed a fraction of the drugs that he has! However, I will say that with his co-writer James Fox’s help, Richards has written a very compelling road trip of a tale of what life has been like for him from the time he was a boy in Dartford, England (he was especially close to his mum, Doris & Aunt Patty and we are privy to some of his letters to her), to his grandfather Gus teaching him his first guitar lick, to the day he met his destiny – and perhaps arch nemesis – in the form of the young Mick Jagger, to the day they formed The Rolling Stones; and later, to the lows of heroin addiction as well as Keith’s joy in being a part of the X-pensive Winos and the Wingless Angels.
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Written by Christine Bode
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 A book could have all the rave reviews in the world from prestigious sources (as this one does); it could have a beautiful, stylish jacket, an author who is a PhD, and be set in countries that you have an interest in, and still not be what you expected it to be. This is the case for me with The Time In Between by Maria Dueñas. Simon & Schuster Canada generously gifted me with an advanced reader's copy of this bulky, literary spy novel because after I read its synopsis, I really wanted to read it.
"The Time In Between by Maria Duenas is an international bestseller that spans the Spanish Civil War to World War II. This beautifully spun novel tells the story of a seamstress who rises to become the most sought after couturier and an undercover spy who passes information about the Nazi regime to the British Secret Service through a secret code stitched into the hems of her dresses.
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