BOOK REVIEW: A Year in Provence
This past week, I read three novels that took place in #France. My goal throughout this project has been to read one per week, but some...
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Lisa Peterson
May 8, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Room on Rue Amélie
This past week, I read three novels that took place in #France. My goal throughout this project has been to read one per week, but some...
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Lisa Peterson
May 8, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
This past week, I read three novels that took place in #France. My goal throughout this project has been to read one per week, but some...
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Lisa Peterson
May 2, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
This past week, I read two very different books that took place in #Finland. The second was The Year of the Hare, by Arto Paasilinna....
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Lisa Peterson
May 2, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Maid Silja by F.E. Sillanpää
This past week, I read two very different books that took place in #Finland. The first was The Maid Silja: The History of the Last...
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Lisa Peterson
Apr 26, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Autumn Ball by Mati Unt
This past week, I read The Autumn Ball: Scenes of City Life by Mati Unt, which took place in #Estonia. This book was written in 1979 and...
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Lisa Peterson
Apr 18, 20211 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
This past week, I read The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg, which took place in #Denmark. I found this story very clever and ethereal, as much...
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Lisa Peterson
Apr 11, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: Love and Garbage by Ivan Klíma
This past week, I read Love and Garbage by Ivan Klíma, which took place in the #CzechRepublic (at the time the book was published in...
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Lisa Peterson
Apr 6, 20211 min read
BOOK REVIEW: Ledra Street by Nora Nadjarian
This past week, I read Ledra Street by Nora Nadjarian, which highlighted daily life and touched on politics on the island nation of...
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Lisa Peterson
Mar 28, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
This week, our book is The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna and takes place in the fictional village of Gost, #Croatia. When I finished...
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Lisa Peterson
Mar 21, 20211 min read
BOOK REVIEW: East of the West ~ A Country in Stories, by Miroslav Penkov
Miroslav Penkov is a talented young writer who captures his beloved homeland of #Bulgaria very masterfully in this collection of eight...
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Lisa Peterson
Mar 14, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andrić
This novel was written by Nobel Prize winning writer and proud native son of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić, in 1945, and was...
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Lisa Peterson
Mar 7, 20211 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe
This novel was written by one of the most popular contemporary Flemish writers, Pieter Aspe, who lives in Brugge, Belgium in 2013, and...
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Lisa Peterson
Mar 1, 20213 min read
BOOK REVIEW: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
When I started this project, I decided to read fictional novels as I make my way through our virtual travels of Europe. I could have...
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Lisa Peterson
Feb 20, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Orphan Sky by Ella Leya
I was especially excited to read this week's book - my selection for Azerbaijan along our virtual backpacking trek through Europe - The...
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Lisa Peterson
Feb 15, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Third Man by Graham Greene
This week's book, The Third Man by Graham Greene, is set in post war Vienna, Austria in the 1940s. In doing some research about this...
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Lisa Peterson
Feb 7, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
What do you know about the Armenian Genocide of 1915? About World War I, in general? I am ashamed to say that it wasn't until I have...
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Lisa Peterson
Feb 1, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: The File on H. by Ismail Kadere
The File on H. is a novel featuring two young Irish academic scholars who are studying oral, epic poetry - such as Homer's Illiad and...
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Lisa Peterson
Jan 12, 20212 min read
BOOK REVIEW: Mr. S and the Secrets of Andorra's Box by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (aka Paul Howard)
As such a small nation, Andorra doesn't have a very vibrant publishing industry. With their primary language being Catalan, they don't...
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Lisa Peterson
Jan 8, 20211 min read
A Broad Wanders Abroad (or... Virtually Backpacking Through Europe)
Hello, Friends! Welcome to our virtual adventure together! My name is Lisa Peterson, and I am a traveler. I had big plans for 2020 and...
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