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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jul 15, 2019 18:06:57 GMT -5
I've finished reading No Quarter, which is a biography of Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. I was a big Zeppelin fan in high school and I'm currently on a 70s classic rock kick and I really liked the book. He was a top session guy on 60s London before joining The Yardbirds and forming Zeppelin, he was also into black magic and occult stuff like Aleister Crowley but that was common back then. It goes into detail how their songs were composed and produced, which is cool if you want to know that stuff. I was born in the wrong decade, the 70s were awesome.
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Post by Tim on Aug 20, 2019 16:32:00 GMT -5
Anyone got any more books to discuss.
I felt bad that I was hogging up the forum.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 2, 2019 9:14:34 GMT -5
Right now I’m reading Cowboy Song, a biography of Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_LynottHe had an interesting background, his father was from British Guyana and his mother was Irish, he grew up as a black kid in 50s Ireland when it was virtually all white. However people weren’t really racist and actually thought it was exotic he was part black since this wasn’t very common, Thin Lizzy were the first Irish band to make it in the US
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Post by Tim on Sept 2, 2019 23:21:47 GMT -5
To be honest, I'd never even heard of them, until I read Vanessa's post on them.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 3, 2019 6:55:38 GMT -5
This is The Boys are Back in Town, their big hit: youtu.be/SGZqDzb__bwLynott really went off the rails in the early eighties when his wife left him and took the kids because of his drug use, doing lots of drugs and having dodgy people coming and going at all hours at their house. Towards the end he was living in squalor at his big mansion in London and his kids were terrified when they saw him, he contracted septicemia and pneumonia at the same time and that’s what killed him.
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Post by Tim on Oct 23, 2019 11:10:16 GMT -5
Since it's Halloween season, I've been reading some of my Stephen King books.
Anyone else reading horror books this time of year?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Nov 3, 2019 16:33:10 GMT -5
Right now I’m reading The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul, which is a what if about Maria surviving Ekaterinburg after being rescued by a guard. She and her husband live in Stalinist Leningrad and they have five kids, life is tolerable until the siege of Leningrad during WWII. There’s a parallel story with an Australian woman whose dad was one of the guards at the Ipatiev house and had a crush on Maria, she’s trying to find out about her father’s past after he dies of dementia. I liked her other book on the Romanovs, the Lost Wife, about Tatiana and this is a parallel to the other book.
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Post by Tim on Nov 3, 2019 18:03:29 GMT -5
Is this a new book? I mean DNA evidence debunked the notion that any of them survived.
And would Maria really want to risk staying in the USSR?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Nov 3, 2019 18:07:03 GMT -5
Is this a new book? I mean DNA evidence debunked the notion that any of them survived.
And would Maria really want to risk staying in the USSR?
It just came out this year, it’s an AU what/if. Maria and her husband live through Stalinist Russia and it shows how awful it was. They didn’t want to sell her jewels since people would get suspicious, so they’re stuck.
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Post by Tim on Nov 3, 2019 18:10:19 GMT -5
Yikes!
Be horrible living under a regime that murdered your whole family and would murder you if they catch on to who you really are.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Nov 3, 2019 18:16:42 GMT -5
And it gets worse when her husband is arrested by the NKVD and killed, then there’s the siege of Leningrad. It’s truly horrifying since people are eating vermin and wallpaper and there’s cannibalism, two of her kids are evacuated to a children’s hospital across Lake Ladoga
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Post by Tim on Nov 3, 2019 18:20:20 GMT -5
Yeah, what a horrible thing to go through.
Maria already saw her country at war once, and this war was way worse.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Nov 3, 2019 18:24:24 GMT -5
Her son escapes the children’s hospital and lies about his age to join the army and gets captured by Germans, but survives. By this time Maria is in her forties but worn out and sickly, she broke her leg and it was never healed and she looks much older
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Post by Tim on Nov 3, 2019 18:30:06 GMT -5
Living in Stalin's Russia, that's not surprising.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Nov 3, 2019 18:37:08 GMT -5
She does befriend an NKVD officer after she finds his missing son, he helps her find food during the siege and takes her kids to the children’s hospital. In her other book on the Romanovs The Lost Wife, Tatiana escapes with Dmitri Malama but they’re separated during the Russian civil war and don’t reunite until after WW2. In the meantime he married a German Jewish woman in Berlin and Tatiana married the Czech officer who saved her
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