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Roman Blood
Progress:
171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
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208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
L'étoile rouge et le poète
A very soft 3 stars. This is the tale of Africa de las Heras aka Maria Luisa aka war hero, spy extraordinaire of the USSR. This extraordinary woman really existed. From the Spanish Civil War all through WW2, the Cold War she stood tall and did her duty. Alicia Dujovne Ortiz wrote a fictional account of this amazing woman life and it's using fiction that didn't sit well with me, it kinda cheapens the life of Africa. You don't believe she's actually real. I had to check to be sure. That kinda tells me the writer didn't do a really good job of making me believe she was. I'm hoping to one day read a biography of Africa de las Heras, woman, revolutionary, assassin, actress, colonel, all around master spy.
