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The Greek Myths areAs a just-post-WWII baby, arguably, the greatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast I faced a shadow over western tales and traditionsdilemma: reducing, yet remain relatable reusing and readable millennia laterrecycling is part of my DNA. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity NEVER throw away anything that brings them into might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the modern age whilst still giving future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the honour and respect that such ancient purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and influential stories deserve. [[Mythos: A Retelling of any purchase must pass the Myths test of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Higashida -->*[[image:Higashida_Fall.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1444799088'Is this absolutely essential?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1444799088]] ===[[Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From On the Silence other hand, I suspected I was guilty of Autism by Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell]]=== [[imagewishcycling:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Home and Family|Home and Family]] Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international bestassuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes -seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because m looking at you) and dropping it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from in the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autismkerbside bin. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid Yes, or by tracing letters I could go searching on the palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow internet - and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan, and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first bookrecycling bible. [[Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Mahnke -->*[[image:Mahnke_Lore.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472251652?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472251652]] ===[[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke]]==isbn=1913750353 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on, thereBritannica's a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part Word of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today. [[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewDay|author=Christopher Fowler|title=The Book of Forgotten AuthorsPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

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|summary=My memories of pop music Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions one tongue it could never survive being put into strings and brassanother. Pop music rarely stands still Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and it wasn't long before the basic instruments were seens as constraints and The Beatles'Breath'', but he could translate his own works, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they ledequally complex pieces can cross borders. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist It's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and songwriter2016 (thanks, Roy Wood''Millennium Trilogy''). Wood wanted to develop Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the groupintroduction here so smartly puts it – 's sound 'a privileged means of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because that Utopian state, the rest Republic of Letters''. We here at the group didn'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really share his enthusiasmneed one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781556008</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

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|summary= A guide to The Greek Myths are, arguably, the trains produced by the Tri-ang company from its inception until the company became Hornbygreatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. A very personal guide Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the collecting of model trainshonour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664577</amazonuk>

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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin EdwardsFowler_Forgotten|title=The Story Book of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)Forgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler

|summary=It's easy to be confused by 'Absence doesn't make the various heart grow fonder'ages' of crime writing: if . It makes people think you've an interest re dead. There's truth in the genre that statement, youknow, but there's a conundrum when it'll almost certainly have heard of the Golden Age of Crimes applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, generally acknowledged as being the period between the first and second world wars. but we haven'Classic Crimet buried what they' ve written: that lives on the other hand extends the time frame at either end and covers books published until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, as in the first half case of the twentieth century. Throughout my adult life theresome children's been just one genre of books which authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has fascinated meunearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, and that's crimebut whose works have disappeared, so I could hardly resist the chance of reading ''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the author, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre ''and'' an acknowledged expert on the subjectsometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356967</amazonuk>

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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyChase_Orchids|title=First Science EncyclopediaThe Book of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world|author=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom Mirenda

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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deirdre Osborne (Editor)Edwards_Story|title=The Cambridge Companion to Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards

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