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... year, I still can't believe it.
#50 - Thanks, Peter; I'll plan to read Histories of the Hanged along with Imperial Reckoning. ... view of colonial Kenya.
After lunch I will be heading to Borders to use this week's 40% off coupon to pick up Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 2006.
Next novels: ... ... Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander
2.The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
3.Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
4.Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Sovie ... I temporarily stopped reading Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins because it is so grim and not gracefully written, but I will pick it up again because I want to finish it. My boyfriend had the same experience with it and warned me about it, so this may be partly due to the power of ... ... of Men by P. D. James. Still reading The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge and Caroline Elkins's Imperial Reckoning.
Some touchstones not loading. ... ones from last week: The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge, The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro, and Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins. These are all pretty serious, so I'm probably going to have to add in something on a lighter note. ... gulag with The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge and just dipping my toes into pre-independence Kenya with Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins.
(But actually, I'm taking a little LT break from cleaning up from last night's dinner guests. After cooking yesterday, and ... I'm reading Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev and just started Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins. And I think I'm also going to start The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro, an (asked-for) holiday gift.
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