Banine
Banine: Days in the Caucasus
Well, looks like I was tempting fate after all. As it turns out, not every memoir set in the former USSR in the years before and during the Russian Revolution was really shouting out to be written. This is definitely one such — which is particularly disappointing as the writer’s father was a leading Azerbaijani […]
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BL-opoly: Dice Roll #25
I may be tempting fate (especially since I really liked the book I just finished), but I decided to roll one more time after all: … which takes me to square 35, European Vacation — and I think that means the BL-opoly gods really, really want me to use up all of my novelty cards, […]
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BL-opoly: Robot Card for Square 17 (“Why?”)
Here’s my robot card selection: 1. Cary Elwes: As You Wish 2. Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Café 3. Banine: Days in the Caucasus 4. Gertrude Bell: A Woman in Arabia 5. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 6. Helene Cooper: The House at Sugar Beach 7. Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals 8. […]
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