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Book Review – A Spy in the Sky
A Spy in the Sky Johnson, Kenneth B. Pen and Sword Books, Yorkshire, 2019 How could I not pick up a book with a PRU blue Spitfire on the cover and subtitled “A Photographic Reconnaissance Spitfire Pilot in WWII”? I … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Kenneth B. Johnson, memoir, nonfiction, Photo Reconnaissance, RAF, Royal Air Force, Spitfire, World War 2
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Occupy This Body
Occupy This Body, A Buddhist Memoir Suh, Sharon Sumeru Press, 2019 The author’s story is fascinating from several angles. For one, it’s a glimpse into what it means to be a second generation immigrant living between cultures. Another is what … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, boarding school, book review, Buddhism, family dynamics, feminism, Harvard, immigration, inspiration, meditation, memoir, nonfiction, Running, Sharon Suh, social history, Yoga
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Book Review: The Rider on the White Horse
The Rider on the White Horse Storm, Theodor New York Review Books, 2008 edition of 1964 translation by James Wright of works spanning 1848 – 1888 This book, though titled as one of the works, is a collection of 8 … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, fiction, Friesland, Germany, short story, social history, Theodor Storm
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Random Food of the Day
The best part of the Southwest – you’re never very far away from an excellent burrito.
Seattle Soundings: Tea Blending with Friday
Back in the time before COVID…… There was an ad in a shop window for the 2019 Northwest Tea Festival. I like tea, and I’m not opposed to festivals, and I’d never heard of a tea festival before, so on … Continue reading
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Tagged Friday Afternoon, Northwest Tea Festival, Seattle, synesthesia, tea, tea blending, Wallingford
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Random Food of the Day
Savory sesame pancakes with chili oil – just the thing to get a day started!
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Tagged breakfast, chili oil, food, pancake, photo, sesame
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Book Review: Red Rosa
Red Rosa A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg Evans, Kate Verso, London, 2015 This book is the first graphic biography I have ever read, and I went in having pretty significant doubts as to how effective the medium would … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, biography, book review, City Lights, economics, education, England, Germany, government repression, Graphical Biography, Jewish, Karl Liebknecht, Kate Evans, Poland, police, politics, Portland, prison, protest, revolution, Rosa Luxemburg, social history, world war 1
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Book Review: Justice on the Grass
Temple-Raston, Dina 2005 A study of the “media trial” during the Rwanda war crimes tribunal. The background of the case was that a radio station and several newspapers played significant roles in inciting the racial hatred that led to the … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Dina Temple-Raston, fear, genocide, media, newspapers, non fiction, propaganda, racial tension, radio, Rwanda, trial, war crimes
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Book Review: Dreams of my Russian Summers
Dreams of my Russian Summers Makine, Andrei; translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan 1998 A novel of finding one’s identity across several cultures. The narrator grows up in a mixed Russian-French household; his grandmother was French and in Russia when … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrei Makine, book review, Cross culture, Cultural acclimation, France, Russia, Second World War, translation
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Book Review: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Fuller, Alexandra Random House, 2001 An interesting mix of autobiography, history, travel narrative and social commentary wrapped into one neat little package. Put simply, it’s the story of a white family in southern Africa during the societal changes of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, Africa, Alexandra Fuller, book review, civil war, colony, Derbyshire, land reform, landscape, militia, nonfiction, racial tensions, Rhodesia, social history
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