"Oh, definitely. I'm really looking forward to it." She was, too. After her experience with Marshall, Anand's easy-going humor, impeccable manners, respectful attention and honest lust seemed exceptionally appealing. Her discomfort about his marital status was minor in comparison to the confusio...
By August, they are able to travel to the Savoy for a holiday and Antelme is able to read a newspaper: “Hiroshima is perhaps the first thing outside his own life that he see.” Antelme and Duras did divorce and Mascolo became the second of three husbands. Antelme wrote a memoir of...
Vacation with Pay (Being an account of my stay at the German Rest Camp for Tired Allied Airmen at beautiful Barth-on-the-Baltic) Click here to read online. By Alan H. Newcomb - published 1947 by Destiny Publishers, Haverhill, Mass. Thank you to Bill Haney ex-POW - Stalag Luft I (Nor...
SANDRA DANBY'S BOOK REVIEWS Sharing thoughts on the books I read, new authors, favourite authors, classics re-visistedSkip to content Home ABOUT BOOK REVIEWS A-Z #FIRSTPARAS – A-Z CONTACT/STUFFTag Archives: WW2 books First Edition ‘The Heat of the Day’ by Elizabeth Bowen #old...
short stories. First, I think I told you that I came across his work, serendipitously, in 1976 when I read ‘The Captain's Son’ in The New Yorker. I had just started to write, and a cousin had suggested I write about [our] family; he then told me a lot of family stories, ...
Brian:My uncle used to drop off books at our house when he finished them. The first “adult book” I can remember reading was “Ghostboat” by George Simpson. (The book name I remembered the author I had to look up). It was about a WW2 submarine it had everything a kid (in the...
Made into a famed noir by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart, this novel is about a ex-airman in post-WW2 Los Angeles who roams the city at night and gets involved in trying to catch a woman-hating serial killer. A precursor to Silence of the Lambs et al, it’s one of the ...
and charm the entire villa. He might even remind Ruthie what it’s like to be young and fun again. But when she finds out Teddy’s father’s only fixing up the retirement home to sell it, putting everything she cares about in jeopardy, she’s left wondering if Teddy’s magic was al...
From Apple history, through the likes of Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, and on to specifics insight about design, marketing, and the Mac, here are the absolute best books to read while you're stuck at home. There are books about Apple's personnel, its history, and even its design ethosYou...
I always like to read about a destination before I visit and Japan is perfect for this. It has a unique and fascinating culture and learning more about it before you visit will increase your enjoyment of the country. There are some of the best books about Japan including memoirs, historical...