(because those books don’t need more attention, and if they are actually good, I will get to them eventually – as I did withSpinsterandThe Empathy Exams, several years after they were published). I have made separate lists for fiction, short stories, kids books, and nonfiction. My ...
The history books say Turkish baths we experience today are derived from Roman baths. Arriving in these lands during the 7thcentury, the practice in those days was seen as cleaning the body meant cleaning the soul. So naturally, the Turkish hamam became a bathing ritual in its own right, an...
From 1804 and the first Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire following Balkan wars of 1912-1913 and the first World War 1914-1918 onwards Kingdom of Serbia has been stigmatized by then key Empire, the UK, as it had the courage to pursue its own freedom of choice and to built its...
Hrant Gulumian’s saga of escape from massacre in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire continues. With his mother and brother, the little boy now traverses the obstacle course of learning yet another new language, growing up in America, ...
The first charge laid against him was that of a conversion to Calvinism, the second that of owning forbidden books. The second charge was dropped after a search in the house of Donato Baglione, the son of the merchant under whom he served, where no subversive books were found. The ...
- No, the owner agreed to put him on credit without hesitation. He trusted the boy’s father who always kept his word and never failed to pay back the money he owed. 4. How did the boy feel about the trust he got from the store owner? - This made him feel very proud of his ...
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(5) Science fiction is the clear genre leader for the moment, with baseball closing in on its heels. (Baseball has already gotten a lead on Wil Wheaton-narrated books, which is impressive given that Wheaton is the reason Igot into Audibleto begin with.) ...
Our Berat wine adventure began about 25 minutes outside of Berat at Çobo Winery, which is mentioned in many a guide books discussing Berat. Side note, “Çobo” is pronounced nothing like it looks. Çobo Winery. We arrived at Çobo and drove up what appeared to be a residential dri...