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Sofia Petrovna
Sofia Petrovna | ????? ????????? ?????????, Aline Werth
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Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's office, hoping against hope for good news. Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense, Sofia goes mad, a madness which manifests itself in delusions little different from the lies those around her tell every day to protect themselves.
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DHill
Sofia Petrovna | ????? ????????? ?????????, Aline Werth
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And just like that, it‘s Saturday again. 🤍

#dogsoflitsy #saturdaystandard

rockpools That‘s a fab photo 🐶! 2y
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MrBook
Sofia Petrovna | ????? ????????? ?????????, Aline Werth
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#BookNDinner! #RedLobster Edition! Accompaniment this cold and rainy evening: friend shrimp, shrimp scampi, lobster tail, crab legs, lobster langostino mashed potatoes, cheddar biscuits, and raspberry iced tea! MMMMmmm 😋! Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻

Carolyn11215 You make friends with your shrimp before you eat them huh? “friend shrimp” 🤪 6y
BookBabe @Carolyn11215 😂 Yup. I keep telling him not to...it makes it harder when you have to say goodbye and bite their tails off. But he can‘t help it. The one in the foreground is Sammy. Sammy the Shrimp. 🍤 😝 6y
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MrBook @Carolyn11215 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I think I‘m going to leave that typo alone. 😁 6y
Carolyn11215 @MrBook I loved it. Put a huge smile on my face!! 6y
KarouBlue How‘s the book? 6y
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MrBook
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What I‘m hoping to get through for this weekend‘s #WinterStormReadathon 😁! Between all the shoveling 😆. Have you read any of these?

@BookBabe

BookBabe Nope, but I want to read the top one! 😄🙌🏻 6y
MrBook @BookBabe I think I can make them available to you. 😆😎😍 6y
GlitterGirl I have read THE KITE RUNNER and it is beautiful! 6y
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AmberWB The Kite Runner was excellent. 6y
cherinium The only one of those I have read is The Kite Runner. I listened on #audiobook and absolutely loved it. 💕 6y
BookBabe Nice #stack! 6y
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BookishTrish
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The long weekend has given me (finally!) enough time to get some decent reading in including this slight but incredibly powerful look into the agony of motherhood under Stalin. It‘s a death by 1000 paper cuts of a read that‘ll break your heart. After it, The Handmaid‘s Tale and The Fireman, I need a book about happy people being kind to each other with a Lisa Frank-inspired cover. Suggestions?

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BookishTrish
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I‘ve moved indoors to the library to continue reading and drinking tea #longweekend

Reviewsbylola Great book choices! I love Boyne. 6y
LitLogophile Oh I love Sofia Petrovna! 6y
AlaMich I spy a whole shelf of Nancy Drews!!! ❤️ 6y
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CoverToCoverGirl Are those Nancy Drew books I see in the background? 😊 (edited) 6y
BookishTrish @Reviewsbylola It‘s my first one. Which others are good? 6y
CoverToCoverGirl Love those book. I have a complete set of them and read everyone of them several times. ❤️🤗 6y
Reviewsbylola You have to read The Heart‘s Invisible Furies. It‘s what started me on Boyne. So good! And then I also loved 6y
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SoniaC
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This story was even better than I recalled. Sophia is a simple, good hearted, honest and trusting woman. She is our eyes during The Great Purge in Stalin's Russia. Is simple yet elegant prose we watch her struggle as her son becomes one of the accused even then she can't quite seem to believe in a world so corrupt. I love how different the women writers were from the men. You truly feel for Sophia and get a feel of the paranoia of the time.

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SoniaC
Sofia Petrovna | ????? ????????? ?????????, Aline Werth
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So I'm done with breakfast and I'm done with The Argonauts. What next you might ask? Well tea, pie and Sophia Petrovna of course. It's a rough life. This is another one of the little gems from the women in Russian lit class I took some 20+ years ago. It warrants a revisit with more mature eyes.

britt_brooke Yum! Nice picture. 👍🏻 8y
MrBook Very tough! 😊 8y
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SoniaC @MrBook lol well it's not sorbet but it was tasty 😂 8y
NatalieR Delicious! 🍴 8y
susanw Mmm pie! 8y
SoniaC @NatalieR and @susanw thanks! 8y
MrBook 😂😂😂👍🏻👏🏻 8y
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