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By Samara MW Larday While she was in her early teens, -hail stones- bigger than grains of rice! her maternal grandmother (on her Luckily for her, the all-female hostel During the next summer break, deathbed) told her she would be going she was staying at was at the city the young lady was shopping with off to England for further education, centre, close to her place of study. her mother in Oxford Street when A long time ago in a faraway and for a very long time... that she they bumped into the young man. tropical land in Africa, a young would leave the land of her birth to join Did she finally meet her knight of the She introduced him to her mother. girl, not yet in puberty, had her dad who was in the UK at the time. desert? Only when their paths crossed It turned out that his dad was a visions of miles and miles of at the university they were both long lost friend of both her parents. golden sand. Stories like ‘The Several years later she took the big step studying. 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Dressed she know that the invitation to visit waiting for her knight to take a knight in shining armour in her tropical clothes, she tried in a young couple was from his cousin. her home. www. tempoplanet.com 05 TALKING BOOKS THE BLOG A book review by Azza El Masri By Seumas Gallacher Savage Writing …I wonder how often and how many of yeez have the same thoughts that bang around in my little grey cells from time to time… today’s epiphany jumped in a wee while ago… ‘…God save us from those that want to save us from ourselves…’ …it starts when ye’re still an infant, still in yer short trousers… the ‘savers’ raise the alarm about how much violence gets peddled in the movie theatre cartoons… ‘…it’ll warp their minds… create monsters out of them… psychologically damage them forever…’ …well, I don’t know about how yeez all handled that stuff, but watching the likes of Tom and Jerry and the Road Racer invent thirty thousand different ways of bodily annihilation never ever put me off my mince… fast forward to the modern day and the birth of the eBook phenomenon…