JUDY MARKS

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JUDY MARKS

Judy Marks spent thirty years married to Britain’s favourite marijuana smuggler Howard Marks, aka Mr Nice. And bore him two daughters, and a son. For a great deal of their married life they spent much of their time dodging the authorities in four continents.

Read Judy’s extraordinary true life account of living with Howard. A highly, intelligent, Oxford educated, charasmatic, marijuana smuggler as they fratenized with organizations as diverse as the MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia, and the ultimate, terrible price Judy was forced to pay for falling in love.

Judy’s and Howard’s book’s about her, and Howard’s adventures were made into a film starring Rhys Ifans as her husband, Howard, and Chloe Sevigny, as Judy. David Thewlis played an award winning role as the IRA man.

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Reviews

‘PUTS fORWARD AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF HOWARD MARKS’ LIFE AND ILLUSTRATES HOW A YOUNG WOMAN CAN BE EASILY BLINDED BY LOVE’

FINANCIAL TIMES

‘A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THE COUPLE’S HIGHS AND LOWS….AN ENDEARING AND FASCINATING READ’

BIG ISSUE

‘REVEALS THE ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF BEING MARRIED TO THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS HASH SMUGGLER’

TNT MAGAZINE

BUY THE MOVIE;

TO WATCH THE TRAILER SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.

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Reviews

‘PUTS FORWARD AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF HOWARD MARKS’ LIFE AND ILLUSTRATES HOW A YOUNG WOMAN CAN BE EASILY BLINDED BY LOVE’

FINANCIAL TIMES

‘A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THE COUPLE’S HIGHS AND LOWS….AN ENDEARING AND FASCINATING READ’

BIG ISSUE

‘REVEALS THE ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF BEING MARRIED TO THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS HASH SMUGGLER’

TNT MAGAZINE

FOR THE MOVIE CLICK BELOW;

WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER HERE

Mother Antonia Brenner-The Angel Of God

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Mother Antonia Brenner

Mother Antonia Brenner was born as Mary Clarke into an affluent Irish-Catholic family, in the exclusive community of Beverly Hills, California. Although the family had a privileged lifestyle, the family took care of those in need. In her early years, Mary Clarke participated in many help programs and charitable activities,

Mary married at a young age, and eventually raised seven children during the course of two marriages. After twenty-five years of marriage and after most of her children were out of the house, she drastically changed her life. In a period of just a few years, she divorced, sold her home and possessions and began to serve full time the prisoners at La Mesa penitentiary in Tijuana, Mexico.

After almost three decades of service, Sister Antonia Brenner calls Tijuana her home. She condemns crime, but loves the sinners and the victims. Her love and guidance have made a difference at the prison and as a result, many who were imprisoned there have sought a better life.

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For twenty-five years Sister Antonia’s avoided discussing her life previous to working in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons in Tijuana. Mexican prisoners pay for imprisonment. Watch the video below about this extraordinary woman.

In the video below Jody Hammond, the filmmaker of “La Mama: An American Nun’s Life In A Mexican Prison,” talks to KPBS about Mother Antonia, who became a nun at age 50 and has called Tijuana’s most notorious prison, La Mesa Penitentiary, home since 1978.

BOOK LOVERS

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

Book Lovers

As the site name suggests, this site is for book lovers the world over. If you love books we are sure that you will enjoy this site. We will be constantly adding new books and reviews. Please feel free to leave any comments as long as they are relevant to the book mentioned.

Why Do People Love to Read?

People read for many different reasons. Some people read because it is necessary, like eating and breathing. Some people only read practical books – to advance their careers or knowledge on a particular subject. Or because they like to learn something factual, meaningful, or real whether it be a biography, or a popular title on any science subject, religion, –or such.

But for those of us who really, really adore to read – why is that? A book takes away our time and space limitations. We can visit the future, or the past, travel to exotic locations, or imagine what it is to be a smuggler, a tycoon, a soldier or a nun or monk.

Escape has something to do with it. Even if you lead a fantastic life, sometimes it is nice to take a break from it and inhabit a different one. And if you’re going through a bad time, it’s sometimes comforting to read people who have had similar experiences and how they coped.

Books are the gateway to many worlds of thought and deeds. As Channing once wrote in his Essay on Self Culture:

“God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling; if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof,—if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise; and Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart; and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom,—I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.”