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squirrelbrain
Mission to Tashkent | F M Bailey
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Mehso-so

Realised I forgot to review this when I finished it last week. Meh - it was OK in parts…very ‘boy‘s own adventure‘, James Bondesque true story from a spy just after WWI.

However, it inevitably involved a lot of politics and half the time I couldn‘t actually understand what was going on, plus he didn‘t seem to achieve a great deal.

Never mind, that‘s the last of those pesky Stans ticked off the #readingasias2021 list! #uzbekistan

Librarybelle Way to go to finishing the stans! (edited) 3y
BarbaraBB What @Librarybelle says! 💪🏽❤️ 3y
rockpools Yay for getting through the stans! 3y
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squirrelbrain @rockpools - I just sent you this one - should be there early next week. (Just letting you know, as your postie seems to like playing hide and seek with your parcels! 😁) 3y
rockpools @squirrelbrain oooh, thank you Helen! I looked at her other book, The Border, last week, and decided that 600 pages might be a little ambitious right now! And yes. I was checking the recycling bins this morning to make sure a PCR test hadn‘t been delivered‘to a safe place‘ 🙄 - so thank you! Much as I love the postal service, I do have issues with certain postpeople 😬- the hiding stuff I can live with. The origami envelopes wind me right up!! 3y
squirrelbrain Yeah, I‘m not sure I‘d read another book by her. I liked this one but it felt like a loooong book! @rockpools 3y
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ChaoticMissAdventures
The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai
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📚 The Great Believers 😭
✍️ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
🍿Girls Trip
📺 Golden Girls
🎤 Gloria Gaynor
🎶 Good As Hell - Lizzo

Thanks @JoScho #manicmonday #LwmetterG #deepThinking #GreatGame

JoScho Lizzo 🙌🏼🖤🙌🏼 4y
AshleyHoss820 The Golden Girls is so much yes!! ❤️ 4y
ChaoticMissAdventures @AshleyHoss820 thank you for being a friend! 😍. Dorothy is my soulmate. 4y
AshleyHoss820 @ChaoticMissAdventures Same! I love her deadpan wit! 4y
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Oblomov26
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Pickpick

A fascinating story which I kind of knew. The tale of imperial overreach as a the English intervene to restore a king to the throne of Afghanistan and the resulting uprising of the local people which saw the king executed and the English thrown out of the country with massive losses. It is amazing to see how the basic themes of history repeats. As a modern character states, the Americans are finished, next it will be the Chinese.

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writerlibrarian
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Non-fiction #adventrecommends. Hopkirk writes in a way that these British and Russian spies, adventurers, explorers read like fictional heroes playing a huge, masterly game of chess in one of the most mysterious, dangerous and incredible place in the world.

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Oblomov26
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Pickpick

After completing Russian Roulette I remembered that I owned this book. Concentrating upon India and the east this book provides more details on how the Soviets sought to raise rebellion in the east and were confronted by the rather eccentric members of the Indian office kicking off a new Great Game. Incorporating tales of attempted rebellions, displaced Turkish leaders and crazy White Russians, a fascinating story that feels more fiction.

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Oblomov26
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Pickpick

Fascinating history of the last generation of John company politicals and the man who recruited them to serve in the Punjab in the years before the mutiny, a mutiny in which many rode to the relief of Delhi and in many case their death. Men such as Lumsden who created the Corp of Guides, Hodson who lead his own private regiment of horse and Nicholson who would lead the assault on the breach at Delhi. A picture of the real “paladins” of empire.

Oblomov26 The quotation mark‘s reflecting that if you are an Indian patriot these were terrible men who committed many acts which could be charitably be viewed as war crimes. (edited) 6y
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Eyejaybee
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Mehso-so

A fascinating subject, but somehow the ‘Boy‘s Own‘ prose detracted from what would otherwise have been a comprehensive and compelling account. See my Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/903335.The_Great_Game. #peterhopkirk #thegreatgame #history #india #militaryhistory #espionage #adventure #18thcentury #19thcentury #book #books #bookstagram

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writerlibrarian
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I'm an armchair traveller. This is the best seat of any ride. #heyjune

@Cinfhen
@GypsyKat

Cinfhen I agree!! 6y
GypsyKat Love it! 6y
SilversReviews Great photo!! 6y
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bookishlyblessed
The Arabian Nights | Anonymous
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Taking a break from #LitsyPartyofOne to play #arabiannights #greatgame

BookwormBeth Where did you find this wonderful thing? 8y
bookishlyblessed The game is called Arabian Nights, my brother found it on Amazon. It's a great game but takes a long time. We used to start it at 10PM always a bad idea. 8y
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