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Olena Stiazhkina is originally from Donetsk and is one of the best literary guides to Donbas and the complex background to the war. Olena Stiazhkina’s Cecil the Lion’s Death Made Sense. Uilleam Blacker Associate professor in Comparative Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London As ever, Reacher pulls through with panache, an affair, and luck, only to hit the road again. Lee Child’s Tripwire, published over twenty years ago, which I just read is, well, pretty brutal. My nephew nearly disowned me when I told him what I was reading… Shostakovich wrote them for Nikolayeva between 19 after he heard her play and win the Bach Competition, where she performed Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues. Tatiana Nikolayeva playing Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. Don’t underestimate the immense cultural and historical gulfs between today's Western and Eastern Europe. Blacker’s chapter on victimhood and martyrdom is essential for understanding how history and occupation are intrinsic to Poland and Ukraine’s views of the world. Memories of an earlier life were suppressed or distorted. Blacker’s analyses about identity, competing narratives, selective memory, and what it means to move into another culture-even occupying someone else’s home-are impressive. The backdrop is the post-1945 years when millions of people across East Central Europe were displaced, expelled, or forced to flee. Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others by Uilleam Blacker. Unlike his brother, Heinrich, Mann consistently ducked the big issue: the role and responsibility of the writer, more relevant than ever in today’s unsettling political landscape. For his own egocentric reasons, Mann wanted to believe the Germans were too sane to believe in or support Hitler. Verging on biography and fiction, Tóibín pulls no punches about Thomas Mann’s deceit and his disdain for the status quo (up to a point).

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In her free time, Strickland makes and sells nerdy leather craft items on her Etsy store, Polias Leather.Judy Dempsey Editor, Strategic Europe, Carnegie Europe She runs a practical grammar vlog on Youtube called 'Read Ink' and is the official vlogger for the Indie-Visible channel.

Strickland holds a Masters of Secondary Education (English Language Arts) from the University of Montevallo. Its sequel, Escape OR, Major Bedloe's Cold Iron War Machine, released in 2015. In 2013, Strickland published Rescue OR, Royer Goldhawk's Remarkable Journal, an American steampunk adventure novel. Its sequels, Olympia Heights: The Weight of the World, Olympia Heights: The Blood of Athens, and Olympia Heights: The Cult of Kronos followed. Strickland's first published novel, Olympia Heights: The Pantheon, was released in July of 2011. Days after returning from her honeymoon, Strickland packed up and moved to Alabama. On April 24, 2010, Amy married and became Amy Leigh Strickland. She began writing her first novel while working retail and doing freelance web design work. In the summer of 2008, BFA in-hand, Amy returned to Townsend, MA to plan her wedding. It was here that she met her future husband, Kyle Strickland. During this time, she also took advantage of her electives, studying writing, Shakespeare, video, and World Mythology. Amy earned her BFA in Performing Arts at SCAD, and she starred in Sharon Ott's 2008 production of Oliver Twist as the title role. Amy graduated as a Gold Award Girl Scout, as President of her school's chapter of the NHS, and received the Flag Award for citizenship.Īfter graduating High School, she enrolled in the Savannah College of Art and Design. She was raised for eighteen years in Townsend, MA, participating in Drama Club, Girl Scouts, Art Club, Student Literary Magazine, and the National Honors Society. Strickland was born Amy Leigh Albro on Jin a hospital in Nashua, NH. Her novels include the Olympia Heights and Royer Goldhawk series, and she is the writer of the ongoing Olympia Heights comic. Amy Leigh Strickland is an author and educator, teaching eighth grade English.