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The second book that Alan read to me was a "Town Like Alice" By Nevil Shute

I have always loved the movie staring staring Virginia McKenna. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571441/bio Who is well know for the movie "Born Free."

For years when ever the movie was on TV I would always love it despite it being in black and white.  "A Town Like Alice" was always one on my favourite war movies, although the story line is very sad.

I often wondered if it was based upon a true story, but never really check until last year and found out that it was based upon face and people that the author had known/met.

When Alan finally gave me the book for my birthday we could not put it down.  I was shocked as to how much of the book was missed out of the movie and how in teh film it was Jean Paget who was the narrator when in fact in the book it is Noel Strachan who is Jean's lawyer. 

In the film it opens up with Jean in London and saying how she would like to go back to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war.  What it dose not do is say where she got the money from to do so.

The information about this is all in the first chapter of the book that is missed out of the movie interiorly along with most of the book including why the book is called "A Town Like Alice."  Which you can find out by reading the book your self.

The movie also ends on a cliff hanger with the tow key cast members meeting up again, but what happes to them?

I also found that in the book Jean Paget is a much stronger women that she is portrayed in the movie and one that can speak Maylain and supports everyone, this gets lost a little in the film.

Never the less is will still remains my favourite  War movie of all times and I would recommend reading the book.

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This year I have not read any books yet for myself, I have however read

"The Tiger Who Came To Tea" by Judith Kerr 

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 "Aliens Love Underpants" by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort.

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Last year me and my partner became full-time parents and wanted reading to become a big part of your lives again.  So we looked at a few books in local charity shops that we could read and also read to our son.

My partner read the following to books to me every night when I returned home since the birth of my son on 6th January 2014.

The first book that Alan read a loud was by George Orwell, two of the best and well known books by this author is "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen  Eight-Four",  I believe that this is because it is one of the books that many of us may have been made to read at school for English. 
The book that we read was "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"  by George Orwell.  The book was about a man who had a good job and a women in his life who he very much cared for, but it was not until he lost every thing that he realizes that all he ever really wanted in his life or needed he had all along.

The one thing that makes me love this book is the title and how the main character hates Aspidistra's. 

But secretly he had a love hate relationship.

He then finally grows to love the thing he hates. "Aspidistra's".

I would defiantly say that this is a good book to read, one that you can take your time in read at your own pace, however what we found that once we started we just could not put the book down.  

I found Alan reading it in to the early hours of the morning with his head touch on his head and me listening to his voice with our son sleeping next to use only to wake every 3 hours for a feed or a change.

Some of the quotes from the book can be found on the following website.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3226250-keep-the-aspidistra-flying

“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.” 
― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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I created it so that books could be read and then hopefully passed on and then read again.  I love libaries and reading, but believe that books should not just be left on a shelves to become dust but shared over and over again. 

Books should be read and loved by all.  Now that I move around a lot I am always looking for new things to read and try to read at lest one book per year.

What I than try to do with the books is leave them so where to that they can be found and hopefull be read by someone elese.

Sadly I have not found out yet if any of the books I have left or have recommended have been read.