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Small Miracles
A little bit of sin is good for the soul.Gadriel, the fallen angel of petty temptations, has a bi…
This was Tracy’s recommendationfor an uplifting read, and she nailed it. An adorable tale of petty sin, chocolate, and all the different kinds of love there are, all this with big Good Omens vibes (which are openly acknowledged at the end of the book). Nothing that will change the world of literature, but exactly the…
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset ret…
This novel follows the 8 lives, supposed or real, of a woman who was a « comfort woman » during several wars or who interacted with them; who murdered a few men; who was a spy for North Korea in the South; who was a loving wife to a man who thought she was someone else. It’s…
Bologna
Modern Albania
Modern Albania offers a vivid history of the Albanian Communist regime’s fall and the trials and tribulations that led the country to become the state it is today. The book provides an in-depth look at the Communists’ last Politburo meetings and the first student revolts, the fall of the Stalinist regime, the outflows of refugees, the crash of the massive pyramid-loan schemes, the war in neighboring Kosovo, and Albania’s relationship with the United States. Fred Abrahams weaves together personal experience from more than twenty years of work in Albania, interviews with key Albanians and foreigners who played a role in the country’s politics since 1990–including former Politburo members, opposition leaders, intelligence agents, diplomats, and founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army–and a close examination of hundreds of previously secret government records from Albania and the United States.
Honestly not sure how I feel about this book. It was a great, instructive and well-written story… but it’s a story in which the US do no harm, written by an American, and I tend to be very very suspicious of cold war / immediately post cold war stories that don’t mention a US-backed anti-communist…
Torino
rues de grenoble
Grenoble to Torino
how the one-armed sister sweeps her house
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter’s Tunnels. When she’s grown, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men driven into the Tunnels by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom – and their lives.
A haunting, terrible tale. Lala has a husband. He’s not a good man. In fact, he killed a man, whose wife had a husband and doesn’t anymore. Lala has a child, for a week. Then she doesn’t, and her husband blames her and she knows he’ll kill her if she doesn’t leave. Lala doesn’t leave.…