Berlin and Stalingrad by Antony Beevor - from a newbie bookmoocher who kindly spent £5 sending them to me. Love it when this happens as had some bad experiences with new moochers who list lots, accept and then never send the books. Lovely big books too, cant wait to get stuck in to them.
Also The World of Myth: An Anthology by D Leeming - very kindly sent from a moocher in the USA. Its a heavy college book comparing certain world myths eg the flood. Hits the right note for me between non-fiction and fiction.
Coming to the end of the Simon Garfield book of post war diaries and it really struck me how there has never really been a golden age. People back then were just as frightened of disaffected youth, had just as many complaints about crime and bad behaviour and in addition were horribly sexist, misogynistic, homophobic and disgustingly antisemitic (one diarist writes that she wishes Hitler had done a better job at exterminating the Jews). Took my breath away in parts.
Bethenny Frankel is still at the beach
8 years ago
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