...Y No Se Lo Trago La Tierra/...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
Author: Tomas Rivera Senor Rivera describes in beautiful Spanish the travails of some Mexicans in their search for a better life. The time... the forties and fifties. |
I just read a great book about the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Man, without denigration, a lot of Halsey's flaws got swept under the rug due to public adulation... |
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Kipling's own son was killed on the Western Front If you go out policing Pete put that copy of Kim in your pocket;) |
Anna Karenin is really good. It will take me ages to finish but it is amazing how modern Tolstoy reads......
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Jeremy Rifkin: "The Empathic Civilization"
Laurence Sterne: "Tristram Shandy" (in German) Marcel Proust: "A la rechereche du temps perdu" (in German) |
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson
This book is widely considered the best single volume history of the Civil War (as opposed to Catton's or Foote's trilogies). |
Finished reading Foundation
onto Foundation and Empire still reading Anna Karenin |
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Been a long time since I've read those series. I'm a fan of Seldon Crisis.;) Asimov was a master. |
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