book blitz
Half note-to-self, half book report:
As I'm currently working 6 hours days I'm trying (and mostly succeeding) to do Serbia-related things for 2 hours a day. At this point, it means that I am tearing through the Balkans reading list I was sent by the woman in charge of BVS Europe.
Commence Reviews:
My War Gone by, I Miss it So by Anthony Lloyd
Probably the only book on my reading list in which heroin is a main character. This book documents the experience of a British soldier turned sort of photojournalist (he has a camera & a fake credential) in the war in Bosnia. An entertaining read. It reminds me a lot of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, another book with a complete sentence for a title that is an account of a journalist becoming addicted to the adrenaline rush, excitement & terror that is war.
Blood and Vengeance by Chuck Sudentic
Written by The New York Times' man in the Bosnian war, this is a family history. Sudentic's wife's sister's brother's family are Muslims from a Bosnian mountainside within shouting distance of the Bosnian-Serbian border. The book is a written account of the oral histories of the Cepics & their neighbors. The story starts in Ottoman times & culminates with the killing off of all but one of the adult men in Srebrenica. The Srebrenica massacre is made much more powerful & horrifying after 300 pages have been devoted to people killed there. An especially heartbreaking detail is that one of the women gave birth to a son on the day of the massacre. As his dad was dying, he was being born. Aching.
As I'm currently working 6 hours days I'm trying (and mostly succeeding) to do Serbia-related things for 2 hours a day. At this point, it means that I am tearing through the Balkans reading list I was sent by the woman in charge of BVS Europe.
Commence Reviews:
My War Gone by, I Miss it So by Anthony Lloyd
Probably the only book on my reading list in which heroin is a main character. This book documents the experience of a British soldier turned sort of photojournalist (he has a camera & a fake credential) in the war in Bosnia. An entertaining read. It reminds me a lot of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, another book with a complete sentence for a title that is an account of a journalist becoming addicted to the adrenaline rush, excitement & terror that is war.
Blood and Vengeance by Chuck Sudentic
Written by The New York Times' man in the Bosnian war, this is a family history. Sudentic's wife's sister's brother's family are Muslims from a Bosnian mountainside within shouting distance of the Bosnian-Serbian border. The book is a written account of the oral histories of the Cepics & their neighbors. The story starts in Ottoman times & culminates with the killing off of all but one of the adult men in Srebrenica. The Srebrenica massacre is made much more powerful & horrifying after 300 pages have been devoted to people killed there. An especially heartbreaking detail is that one of the women gave birth to a son on the day of the massacre. As his dad was dying, he was being born. Aching.
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