Echte mannen eten geen kaas by Maria Mosterd
Echte mannen eten geen kaas has been a bestseller and its author Maria Mosterd a bit of a media hype in Holland since the book was published a year and a half ago and I think it deserves the attention, because it is an urgent and important book, though it does raises some important questions. [...]
Ararat by Frank Westerman
Usually I put a picture of the book cover in my post, but this time I don’t. I can give you a picture of the real thing. This is Mount Ararat as it stands over Yerevan and as I see it everyday on my way to work or when I look out of my bedroom [...]
Land van gebroken beloftes by Anna Brouwer
Land van gebroken beloftes: Dochters van Rusland (Land of Broken Promises: Daughters of Russia) by Dutch filmmaker and journalist Anna Brouwer consists of two parts, told in alternating chapters. One part is the family history of Lara, a Russian friend of Brouwer who emigrated to Holland, Lara’s twenty-something year old daughter Polina, Lara’s mother Tamara [...]
The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell
The six sisters collectively known as the Mitford Girls were not only very different and interesting characters of themselves, living in an interesting time in history, but the way their lives turned out, makes them even more fascinating. So let me briefly introduce them. The oldest, Nancy, was born in 1904 and became a very [...]
