Our next trip is coming in May...this time to Eastern Europe with stops in Warsaw, Auschwitz, Krakow, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, and Prague. Can you please poll your loyal readers for suggestions? Would love to hear your recommendations, especially fiction and biography!I'm sure you folks will have some advice.
Friday, January 24, 2014
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, BOOKS WOULD READ YOU! As the ThingThrowers have done in the past, my mother has a request for reading picks for an upcoming trip:
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While it is a little further afield than the countries mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed City of Thieves by David Benioff, which is the story of two men's journey to find eggs for a general's daughter's wedding cake during the siege of Leningrad.
ReplyDeleteVanished Kingdoms, the rise and fall of state and nations. Norman Davis. review
ReplyDeletereview: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/18/vanished-kingdoms-norman-davies-review
ReplyDeleteBloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy D. Snyder.
ReplyDeleteMe too. And Benioff, of course, has achieved some addition fame recently for helping run Game of Thrones. (Also, I think he's the guy who gets to finish the series if GRRM keels over.)
ReplyDeleteArthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
ReplyDeleteTimothy Garton Ash, The File (about the author's decision to go review the file the Stasi kept on him before the Wall fell)
At the risk of being too obvious here, has she read much Kafka yet?
ReplyDeleteI know my mother has read City of Thieves, because she gave me her copy.
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