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Monthly Archives: November 2018
Random Food of the Day
The final 2018 chili pepper harvest – caught it the night before the first frost.
Book Review: Autumn Across America
Autumn Across America Teale, Edwin Way St. Martins, New York 1956 This book is part of a 4 volume set written over several years where the author and his wife set off on road trips across the country to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, Cape Cod, Edwin Way Teale, natural world, nonfiction, northern tier, observations, Point Reyes, road trip, seasonal progression, social history, travel
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Book Review: North with the Spring
North with the Spring Teale, Edwin Way St. Martins, New York 1951 This book is part of a 4 volume set written over several years where the author and his wife set off on road trips across the country to … Continue reading
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Bun Bo Hue at Bellwood Pho in Victorville
Book Review: Leben in Preußen
Leben in Preußen Noa, Wolfgang 1983, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin This was one of four East German books selected by S. for me in a second-hand bookshop in Berlin and sent hand by hand via a chain of personal acquaintances from … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Communism, East Germany, Prussia, social history, socialist realism, society, Wolfgang Noa, world war 1, World War 2
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Book Review: The Other Side of Silence
The Other Side of Silence Brink, Andre Harcourt, 2002 This is a hard book to place. On several levels it is the type of book that should be required reading, on others it is hard to recommend. My view … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Africa, Andre Brink, colony, destruction, domestic service, escape, mail order bride, military, orphanage, persecution, rape, segregation, torture, vengence
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Book Review: The Lines We Leave Behind
The Lines We Leave Behind Graham, Eliza Lake Union Publishing, 2018 I was hesitant to choose this book from the October 2018 Amazon pre-release selection as something about the description just didn’t quite align with what I somehow thought … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, amnesia, book review, Bosnia, Cairo, Chetnik, Eliza Graham, England, historical fiction, Holocaust, intrigue, London, Lysander, manipulation, mental health, mental institution, operative, parachute, Partisian, rape, Resistance, Sarajevo, secret agent, Serbia, social history, treachery, Ustasia, World War 2, Yugoslavia
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Book Review: Atomic Farmgirl
Atomic Farmgirl Hein, Teri Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, CO, 2000 This was a bargain shelf find at Hastings in Waco and an excellent one at that. The basic story is a memoir of a girlhood spent growing up on a farm … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, book review, cancer, environment, Fairfield, farming, Hanford, Hastings, healthcare, lansdscape, memoir, Palouse, Seattle, social history, Teri Hein, waco, Washington, Waverly
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Book Review: Der Korporal
Der Korporal Dobozy, Imre Verlag der Nation, Berlin, 1971 An interesting war comedy in East German translation from the Hungarian original. The setting is the autumn of 1944 as the Soviet troops are about to take Budapest. A corporal in … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, comedy, East German, fiction, humor, Hungary, Imre Dobozy, novel, translation, World War 2
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Book Review: Jahrgang 1934
Jahrgang 1934 Kirsch, Hans-Christian Verlag Herder, Freiburg, 1964 This book chronicles the development of possibly the most damaged generation in modern history, the Germans born in 1934. The 14 stories, based loosely around the life of “Ken,” are individually very … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, 1950s, Berlin, book review, Buchenwald, Communism, East Germany, fiction, generational study, German, Hans-Christian Kirsch, politics, short story, social history, society, World War 2
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