Marina Osipova
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One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia
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A book I can’t recommend highly enough. This story captivated me fully from the first chapter. For this reader, it was haunting. Written with unquestionable authenticity, it gave me a feeling of almost being there in person. Unobtrusively, the author ...more |
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Bad dreams
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So, it's all in us, we only learned to camuflage it during the day? That's really horrible. Still, I consider you very nice person (smile).
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Marina Osipova wants to read 12 books in the 2023 Reading Challenge
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You made me smile, Richard. Sorry, for you it must be more on the sad side. Anyway, a great advise for parents to be.
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Unforgettable A power story, however short, about love and nostalgia for the homeland, the author's father’s family left while fleeing from the new masters of the Russian Empire after the Bolshevik revolution. I highly recommend this book to all who a ...more |
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An impressive debut from a first-time author Perfectly timed for the moment, the book’s subject is as actual now as it has never been since the end of WWII. The author explores complicated, intense emotions of the characters and, through their feeling ...more |
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I didn't see the photograph, but your beautiful writing, Richard, makes it not necessary. It was nice to see you on your lawn digging (smile).
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The story made me think, Richard. I will never forget your memoir writing classes. You tought us not to be afraid to tell a naked truth about ourselve
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“A lark began to sing in the tree above her. Dortchen opened her eyes and looked up. It was such a small, plain, grey thing, yet its song was so full of joy. She could see its breast swell, its thin throat tremble. It lifted its wings, as if seeking to draw more air into its lungs. Song-notes were flung into the air, like golden coins thrown by a generous hand. All the lark's strength was poured into its music, all its joy.
Dortchen took a deep breath, so deep that she felt her lungs expand and the muscles of her chest crack. She wanted to live like the lark did, filled with rapture. She stood up, looking up at the bird through the sunlit leaves. It flung its wings wide and soared away into the sky. She wanted to fly with it.”
― The Wild Girl
Dortchen took a deep breath, so deep that she felt her lungs expand and the muscles of her chest crack. She wanted to live like the lark did, filled with rapture. She stood up, looking up at the bird through the sunlit leaves. It flung its wings wide and soared away into the sky. She wanted to fly with it.”
― The Wild Girl

“Facts swooped like swallows, darting across her mind; there was a rush of pride in things still remembered. Singing was limited to the perching birds, the order Passeriformes. Nearly half the birds in the world didn't sing, but they still used sound to communicate- calls as opposed to song. Most birds had between five and fifteen distinct calls in their repertoire; alarm and territorial defense calls, distress calls from juveniles to bring an adult to the rescue, flight calls to keep the flock coordinated, even separate calls for commencing and ending flight. Nest calls. Feeding calls. Pleasure calls. Some chicks used calls to communicate with their mothers while they were still in the egg.”
― The Gravity of Birds
― The Gravity of Birds

“Alice haunted the mossy edge of the woods, lingering in patches of shade. She was waiting to hear his Austin-Healey throttle back when he careened down the utility road separating the state park from the cabins rimming the lake, but only the whistled conversation of buntings echoed in the branches above. The vibrant blue males darted deeper into the trees when she blew her own 'sweet-sweet chew-chew sweet-sweet' up to theirs. Pine seedlings brushed against her pants as she pushed through the understory, their green heads vivid beneath the canopy. She had dressed to fade into the forest; her hair was bundled up under a long-billed cap, her clothes drab and inconspicuous. When at last she heard his car, she crouched behind a clump of birch and made herself as small as possible, settling into a shallow depression of ferns and leaf litter.”
― The Gravity of Birds
― The Gravity of Birds

“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby willow, sang a sweet fanfare and a pair of mallards fought over a particularly juicy snail. The orchestra was rehearsing a dance number and music skimmed across the surface of the lake. How lucky they were to get a day like this one! After weeks of agonizing, of their studying the dawn, of consulting Those Who Ought to Know, the sun had risen, burning off any lingering cloud, just as it should on Midsummer's Eve. The evening would be warm, the breeze light, the party as bewitching as ever.”
― The Lake House
― The Lake House

“Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales.”
― Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
― Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law

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