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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Russia
Book Review: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
I might never have attempted to read War and Peace if it had not been for the enthusiasm of one of my nephews. I know him to be intelligent and discerning, and he told me that War and Peace was … Continue reading
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Tagged classic, historical novel, Leo Tolstoy, Napoleon, Russia
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Book Review: Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
At the beginning, I need to make two things clear: this is an excellent book, and I almost couldn’t bring myself to read it because of the packaging. I realized by the time I had read a dozen pages that … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Pasternak, CIA, Doctor Zhivago, KGB, Nobel Prize for literature, Russia
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Book Review: Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
Because the vast empire of the Soviet Union is dead and gone, it’s hard sometimes to remember how pervasive, influential, and terrifying it once was. I grew up during the Cold War, when the ongoing struggle between communism and capitalism … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Yeltsin, Brezhnev, Cold War, David Remnick, Gorbachev, Khrushchev, Lenin's Tomb, Pulitzer Prize, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin
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Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
I can’t remember the recent thought processes that caused me to desire to read Doctor Zhivago now, after all this time. The David Lean film was very important to me as a young teen. I saw it multiple times in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Pasternak, Cold War, David Lean, Doctor Zhivago, Nobel Prize, Russia, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Book Review: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
I have had this book in my radar for years, and when I saw it on the shelf in the West Valley Community Library in Yakima and perused it I decided to give it a try. It’s a big, heavy … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Applebaum, Gulag, hard labor, Joseph Stalin, prison, Russia, Russian history, slave labor
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