Very funny for Orwell, sad in places but a lovely read -"never go back, it will never replace your memories"
A list of books I've read recently with some occasional gibberish thrown in.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
INSIDE STALIN'S KREMLIN - Peter S. Deriabin
Disappointing. Written in the 1st person 30 years after the events was always going to make it suspect. Deriabin was a genuine defector but this reads like a superannuation supplement. Mercifully short.
THE POPES -John Julius Norwich
A few saints, a few good guys, many, many charlatans and some truly awful people in the 280 Popes covered in this book.
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