I have a few words to say about this book: funny, engaging, quirky… The author fancies a trip to South America, but because it's the rainy season, he chooses a two-month-long luxury safari in Africa. Luxury? Not quite. The trip is a problem-plagued odyssey on a bus whose windows and roof leak rain. Instead of…

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The Paris Wife by Paula McLain – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

https://www.amazon.com/Paris-Wife-Paula-McLain-ebook/dp/B004JHYRJK?ref The book describes the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson from their beginnings in Chicago to the heady days in Paris of the twenties defined by such literary giants as Ezra Pound, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. It was a group to which Hemingway longed to belong, but…

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28.04.2025

The coincidences of history – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

The coincidences of history. There was a prophecy in Russian history that the Romanov dynasty, which began with a Michael, would also end with a Michael. It is certainly true that the dynasty began with Michael Romanov, a sixteen-year-old boy. Following the Time of Troubles in the early seventeenth century, Michael was elected Tsar of…

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The Ballad of Mary Kearney by Katherine Mezzacappa – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

This truly is a rags-to-riches story. Mary Kearney is the daughter of a poor Catholic farmer who farms land belonging to the aristocratic, Protestant Goward family. Thomas would not be able to make ends meet except that his daughter and son work at Goward Hall. When Mary’s mother dies in childbirth, she also begins to…

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