Master Slave Husband Wife

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography by Ilyon Woo that tells the story of Ellen & William Craft + their escape from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ellen, whose father was a white plantation owner was enslaved by her half sister, working as a seamstress + house servant. William, her husband, worked as a hired out carpenter for his master. Ellen who was extremely light skinned disguised herself as a wealthy southern planter while William portrayed her slave in order to make their escape. The 1st half of this book is a gripping tale - the 2nd half however looses the thread as Ellen + William travel to England - their story gets lost amid the politics + the stories of other abolitionist who help them on their journey.

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World Book Day Special my Blog...

Click here to read - https://vishakhainfo.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/importance-of-book-reading-world-book-day-special/

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📕 Hospital Sketches 📕

Louisa May Alcott served as a Union Army nurse for 6 weeks in Washington DC at the end of 1862. That time, cut short by a case of typhoid pneumonia, inspired her book Hospital Sketches- a short novel both humorous + devastatingly sad.

These are photos of what her world might have looked like during that time

#hospitalsketches #louisamayalcott #civilwar #warwounded #civilwarphotography #americanhistory #books #mybookshelf #booklist #readinglist

📕 Hospital Sketches 📕

Louisa May Alcott served as a Union Army nurse for 6 weeks in Washington DC at the end of 1862. That time, cut short by a case of typhoid pneumonia, inspired her book Hospital Sketches- a short novel both humorous + devastatingly sad.

These are photos of what her world might have looked like during that time

#hospitalsketches #louisamayalcott #civilwar #warwounded #civilwarphotography #americanhistory #books #mybookshelf #booklist #readinglist

📕 Hospital Sketches 📕

Louisa May Alcott served as a Union Army nurse for 6 weeks in Washington DC at the end of 1862. That time, cut short by a case of typhoid pneumonia, inspired her book Hospital Sketches- a short novel both humorous + devastatingly sad.

These are photos of what her world might have looked like during that time

#hospitalsketches #louisamayalcott #civilwar #warwounded #civilwarphotography #americanhistory #books #mybookshelf #booklist #readinglist

📚 2666 📚

Finished this MONSTER of a book last night as the sun was coming down ... struggling to read as I was losing my light - The perfect way to reach a conclusion that leaves the reader somewhat in the dark. Not that I'm complaining. Quite an adventure!

By Chilean born novelist, poet Roberto Bolaño - released posthumously in 2004, a year after his death at age 50.

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📚 I recently finished reading The Warmth Of Other Suns - the story of the Great Migration, the movement of Black Americans out of the South from about 1915 to 1970 - by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Telling the story through the eyes of 3 people who experienced that journey made for a moving + enlightening read. 📚

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📚 My Year in Books 📚

Love that Good Reads can keep track for me 😆

#yearinbooks #books #myyearinbooks #goodreads #mybookshelf #livres #libros #mylibrary

" ... And people saw that every sort of beauty, every sort of love was from the gods, and they became free and bold, and they grew WINGS." 🪽 ---- Mikhail Kuzmin from his novella Wings, 1906

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Marlene Dietrich & Konstantin Paustovsky

Just finished 'The Story of a Life' by Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-1968), Russian writer nominated 4 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was of Zaporozhian, Turkish + Polish descent + raised mostly in Ukraine

In her autobiography, Marlene Dietrich devoted an entire chapter to the author inspired by his novel 'Telegram' :
"This novel made so great an impression on me that I could no more forget it than I could the name of the author, of whom I had never heard before"
In 1964, Dietrich arrived in the Soviet Union on a concert tour. As soon as she got off the plane she asked about Paustovsky. Despite being ill, Paustovsky attended the performance + afterwards went up on the stage. “I was so shocked by his presence that, being unable to utter a word in Russian, I did not find any other way to express my admiration for him, except to kneel in front of him"

#konstantinPaustovsky #marlenedietrich #thestoryofalife #autobiography #sovietauthor #sovietwriter #russianwriter #russiannovelist #russianauthor #instabooks #booksofinstagram #mybookshelf #readinglist #mybooks #bookworld #books #ilovebooks #livres #biblio #buch #bücher #книги