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Well, looks like I didn’t keep up with making Dickens posts.
While I did it for Pickwick Papers, I didn’t do it for February (Nicholas Nickleby) and March (Old Curiosity Shop). April is Barnaby Rudge.
So let me start with the recent novel, and plug the prior ones.
BARNABY RUDGE
Barnaby Rudge...
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Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity by Vladimir Bukovsky, originally published in the 1990s in non-English languages is finally being published in English.
Let me quote Bruce Bawer on why it took so long:
Bukovsky’s book might have helped awaken Americans to the reality of Communism....
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As mentioned in my War and Peace post, I have a new book project for this year – and that’s going to be covering a Dickens novel each month, in chronological order of publication.
Now, Dickens had 15 novels, and I plan on only doing 12. Which will I...
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I provide my extended critique of War and Peace. Nutshell: - it is an important book that people should read - it's not boring, but it's not enjoyable in that one can't really like any of the characters, because I don't think Tolstoy liked any of his charactersby meep
I look at Dostoevsky's book The Gambler - a novella looking at the effects that obsessive gambling has on people (among other things).by meep
I look at the Renaissance Popes as profiled in Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly.by meep
I review Yevgeny Zamyatin's sci-fi dystopia We, and there's a bonus video of a fancy new toy we've got.by meep
One has often heard of the mystery niche called “cozies”.
Cozy mysteries, also referred to as “cozies”, are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Cozies thus stand...
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Two important books are currently free in kindle format on Amazon, until Saturday, September 2:
TO BUILD A CASTLE BY VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
I’ve reviewed this book in a few posts:
Never Forget: Thoughts on To Build A Castle – a Dissident Memoir by Vladimir Bukovsky
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Let’s hear from some who know:
“Sometimes ironic, sometimes detached, sometimes written in cold fury, but always compelling.” —The New Yorker
“This is a landmark book and a human document that remains vital.” —Sir Tom Stoppard, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love
“Vladimir Bukovsky has written an extraordinary account of his life...
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