Russia Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/russia/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:04:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Russia Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/russia/ 32 32 38398750 The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-diamond-eye-by-kate-quinn/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-diamond-eye-by-kate-quinn/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:44:45 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18570 When three members of my family rave about a novel, I really don’t have much choice but to read it, which is how I found myself immersed in the early days of WWII with a young Ukrainian sniper. A female sniper fighting on the front lines in Kate Quinn’s propulsive The Diamond Eye. Lyudmila Pavlichenko […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-diamond-eye-by-kate-quinn/feed/ 5 18570 Winterland: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/winterland-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/winterland-a-novel/#respond Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:42:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17108 Does anyone else remember the USSR dominance in women’s gymnastics in the 1970s? When a name like Ludmilla Tourischeva might be the only Russian an American knew? A new novel, Winterland, takes place in the years when the balletic old guard of gymnasts like Tourischeva is giving way to fearless sprites like Olga Korbut. It’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/winterland-a-novel/feed/ 0 17108 Stalled: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/stalled-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/stalled-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2019 07:47:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12926 In the past I’ve done a feature called It’s Not You It’s Me to indicate books I didn’t enjoy but that I believe other readers might like. Today is a bit different because in those cases I finished the books. With these three books I stalled out, set the book down and never came back […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/stalled-mini-reviews/feed/ 17 12926 Mothers’ Week: Mother Country https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-mother-country/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-mother-country/#respond Fri, 10 May 2019 07:45:26 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12666 Nadia’s life is not an easy one. She works not one, but two jobs—as a home attendant for an elderly man and as a nanny for a little girl. It’s necessary because she lives in Brooklyn while her daughter Larissa is still back in Ukraine. They’ve been separated for six years. Lonely years for Nadia […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-mother-country/feed/ 0 12666 I Was Anastasia: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/i-was-anastasia-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/i-was-anastasia-a-novel/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:57:53 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10350 I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon achieves quite a feat—taking a subject about which there is no longer any mystery and making it mysterious. Thanks to DNA testing, it is now known that Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia died with the rest of her family in the summer of 1918, slaughtered by the Communists in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/i-was-anastasia-a-novel/feed/ 10 10350 Eight Books I Can’t Wait to Read This Fall https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/eight-books-cant-wait-read-fall/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/eight-books-cant-wait-read-fall/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2017 07:33:20 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9245 Wow. Apparently, this summer is over. September and back-to-school and all those markers heralding fall arrive next week. I wish I had a great book to wrap up my summer Monday reviews, but the high expectations I had for The Resurrection of Joan Ashby crashed and burned so I was left with nothing to review […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/eight-books-cant-wait-read-fall/feed/ 9 9245 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/january-reading-wrap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/january-reading-wrap/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:27:11 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8320   Well, all righty, the first month of 2017 is wrapping up. I’ve already noted that my reading is still in an odd place, but I’m working very hard to get my head and heart back into the game—what’s happening now is going to keep on happening. One very positive thing I did in January […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/january-reading-wrap/feed/ 18 8320 The Chosen Maiden https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/chosen-maiden/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/chosen-maiden/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:45:23 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8284   If you’ve ever loved dance, specifically ballet, then you know the name Nijinsky. What you are less likely to know is that the world-famous Vaslav Nijinsky had a sister who was also a dancer. Thankfully, author Eva Stachniak rectifies that in her new novel, The Chosen Maiden, which is the story of Bronia Nijinsky. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/chosen-maiden/feed/ 4 8284 Nonfiction November: My Year in Nonfiction https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/11/nonfiction-november-my-year-in-nonfiction/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/11/nonfiction-november-my-year-in-nonfiction/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:47:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7319   Anyone who knows me and what I like to read is probably rolling on the floor laughing right now because I don’t read nonfiction. Stop it! You’re hurting my feelings. I don’t consciously discriminate against it, but if faced with two books and one is fiction and one is not, I’m going to dive […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/11/nonfiction-november-my-year-in-nonfiction/feed/ 18 7319 A Gentleman in Moscow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/09/a-gentleman-in-moscow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/09/a-gentleman-in-moscow/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:42:06 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7037 When he is thirty-three Count Alexander Rostov finds himself sentenced by the Bolsheviks to house arrest at the Metropol, a prestigious hotel in the theater district of Moscow. Initially, it doesn’t seem a particularly harsh sentence because he has already been living there in a posh suite for four years. But now, he may not […]

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