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I enjoyed all the anecdotes about Russian authors but, most of all, the funny stories about the people she met when she was in Uzbekistan.
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Foodies should enjoy parts of this book – for the description of kitchen equipment and the life downstairs . . . from the lowly scullery maid lighting the kitchen fire to the accomplished cook who had her own sitting room. The details of a dinner for
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All the movies I've seen about the horrors of the German concentration camps did not prepare me for Pilecki's accounts of the brutality that occurred. One example: burying inmates headfirst in gravel pits and placing bets on how long their legs would
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Eleanor’s 2025 Year in Books
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