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EYE OF THE RED TSAR – Sam Eastland
Pekkala is a prisoner in one of the gulags that dot Siberia. It is 1929 and Pekkala has been a “marker” in the forest for nine years. His job is to walk through the forest carrying a can of red pain… more →
MURDER by TYPE
My Friend Catherine the Great
wrote 3 months ago: I picked up this biography on Catherine the Great by Robert Massie just hours ago at my local beauti … more →
Read Well: Books I'm Excited About
wrote 5 months ago: All day yesterday I couldn’t decide what I wanted to post about today. I have more pictures fr … more →
Fail IF Book
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wrote 7 months ago: Last week’s Illustration Friday’s topic was “book.” I love books and I … more →
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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wrote 9 months ago: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman By: Robert K. Massie Pulitzer Prize winning author and accl … more →
Kemp Ridley's #CBR4 Review #21 - Peter the Great: His Life and Times by Robert K. Massie
wrote 10 months ago: Although I’m a big fan of more recent Russian/Soviet history, I know next to nothing about their pre … more →
Close Reading
wrote 1 year ago: Me, pulling out the glasses for some serious Close Reading. When I was a wee lassie, first commencin … more →
EYE OF THE RED TSAR - Sam Eastland
wrote 1 year ago: Pekkala is a prisoner in one of the gulags that dot Siberia. It is 1929 and Pekkala has been a “mar … more →
Cathie's Review of "Peter The Great" by Robert Massie
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wrote 1 year ago: “Peter The Great” by Robert Massie is the tale of an amazing character and a picture of … more →
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wrote 1 year ago: (Article first published as Book Review: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massi … more →
Catherine the Great by Robert Massie
wrote 1 year ago: I really enjoyed Nicholas and Alexandra a few years ago and had high hopes for this. Maybe because … more →
Biography of Catherine the Great
wrote 1 year ago: I just finished a biography of Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie. What an interesting read! He … more →
Jen K's #CBR4 Review #5: Catherine the Great
wrote 1 year ago: A bit of a detour from my usual interest in English history or World Wars I and II – full of i … more →
Christmas is coming, Ama-zon is getting fat
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wrote 1 year ago: I had a splurge this morning. I am now well into Julia Lovell’s The Opium War, which I have to … more →
WORLD WAR I, RASPUTIN, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, AND A BOY NAMED ALEXEI
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wrote 1 year ago: I regret that I wasn’t able to post on November 11. If so I would have borrowed Dan Waddell … more →
Massie Drops Out Of Mass. Senate Race
wrote 1 year ago: BOSTON (AP) — The Democratic race for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Scott Brown has … more →
Read 'Em and Weep, Laugh, or Think
wrote 1 year ago: Reading is a huge part of my life. I have noticed in other blogs that many people provide Summer Rea … more →
The Motherland
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wrote 2 years ago: The documentary film, Blacks Without Borders: Chasing the American Dream on Foreign Soil (2008, dire … more →
A Wide Open Field Part Two
wrote 2 years ago: Little more than a year ago Brown won the seat in a Special election against Attorney General Martha … more →
Literary Notes #10
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wrote 2 years ago: My reading has taken me in all sorts of directions lately from a leper colony in Crete to the quiet … more →
