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The end of my MMJ journey | AUBG Do-Gooders
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What drives you to do volunteer work? The end of my MMJ journey. December 9, 2014. Journey was definitely a one to remember – with highs and lows, fun times and extreme situations, but every week whenever I posted my newest story I felt grateful for having my own blog and for getting to meet such inspirational people whose views of the world are similar to mine. Now I’d like to take the time to recall all those posts from the past 3 months. Section. So it began. This slideshow requires JavaScript. After ...
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Andy Bull Book Reviews: September 2008
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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Wednesday, 10 September 2008. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz. You wouldn’t want a father like Marty Dean. If there is a blackout during a thunder storm he will hold a candle under his chin to show his young son Jasper “how the human face becomes a mask of evil with the right kind of lighting.”. The bedtime stories he tells are “dark and creepy tales, and each had a protagonist that was clearly a surrogate me.”. Terry turns serial ...
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Andy Bull Book Reviews: Nicole Krauss: Great House, Penguin Viking, £16.99
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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Wednesday, 15 June 2011. Nicole Krauss: Great House, Penguin Viking, £16.99. George Weisz does magic: he retrieves the past for those robbed of it. This forensic furniture dealer tracks down the plundered desks, bureaus, chairs and beds their dispossessed owners long for: “all that furnished the lives they lost or the lives they dreamed of living…”. He has been doing so: “as if by putting all the pieces back together he might collap...
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Andy Bull Book Reviews: Derby Day: DJ Taylor, Chatto and Windus, £17.99
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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Wednesday, 10 August 2011. Derby Day: DJ Taylor, Chatto and Windus, £17.99. The mists of Lincolnshire haunt the flat fields and lowering sky, and seep into local myth and legend. Out of this fog which, we are told, lurks like a dense white halo over the low-lying land, there is said to gallop a winged steed: coal-black, with flaming eyes. Marriage to her is said to be worth £50,000. But it’s not enough. And nor is the r...Having got the g...
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Andy Bull Book Reviews: April 2008
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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Friday, 11 April 2008. A Vengeful Longing by R N Morris. There is a killer on the loose in. Its name is cholera, and its accomplices are poverty, slothful bureaucracy and a sanitation system so inadequate that the city is left to stew in its own waste. The city stinks: nowhere more so than in the office of investigating magistrate Porfiry Petrovich overlooking the excrement-filled. 8221; as he seeks the perpetrator of a series of murders ...
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Andy Bull Book Reviews: March 2009
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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Sunday, 8 March 2009. No Time To Think. No Time to Think: The menace of media speed and the 24-hour news cycle. By Howard Rosenberg and Charles S Feldman (Continuum $24.95). If the Cuban Missile Crisis. Were to erupt today, would the world survive? It’s a question that goes to the heart of No Time to Think, and particularly to what its authors describe in their subtitle as the “menace” of modern media. Ted Sorensen, special counsel and in...
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Andy Bull Book Reviews: October 2007
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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Saturday, 6 October 2007. The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe. Rosamond is dead. Imogen is missing. Those who remain have been entrusted with delivering a message, recorded on four C90 cassette tapes, from the dead woman to the beloved granddaughter of Beatrix, her childhood friend. When all efforts to find Imogen fail, the family listen to the tapes, and experience what Jonathan Coe describes as:. As with all the pictures Rosamond d...
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Andy Bull Book Reviews: Perfect Lives, Polly Samson
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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Wednesday, 12 January 2011. Perfect Lives, Polly Samson. Into Celia Idlewild’s perfect world an egg drops. There she is, preparing a perfect breakfast tray for her husband - "everything as it should be: black lacquer tray, two white porcelain cups, ginger thins, the Sunday worship on the radio” - when the egg plops through the letterbox and cracks on the mat. On the shell is written in thick pen: “HAPPY FAT…”. Tilda the picture restorer h...
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Subs' Standards | Tales from the sub-editors desk and crossing the digital divide. | Page 2
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Tales from the sub-editors desk and crossing the digital divide. Newer posts →. Woman in sumo wrestler suit causes sub to wet their pants over lesbian-ex-lover-chocolate-jealousy-assault story and triggers global Twitter alert over mega-deck tabloid headline. June 10, 2011. Thanks to Solo1Y for spotting this header. Guardian pullquote in herey herey type. June 7, 2011. Dummy copy left in The Guardian. I guess this is why they call it dummy copy. Hat-tip to Jack Kirby. April 17, 2011. Here I am on Bundlr.
