Welcome to Hive Book Club Highlight #86
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Title : 'Afrikaner Sondebok?' by Albert Blake
Hello Hivers and Book Clubbers,Back with another review for the Book Club. The last few books read, and in turn articles written, were on subjects I wasn't familiar with at all. This one brings me into very familiar territory, as I'm very interested in South-African history, specifically that of the Afrikaners.
The book I'm reviewing today is fully titled 'Afrikaner Sondebok? Die lewe van Hans van Rensburg, Ossewabrandwagleier'. Translated to English it means 'Afrikaner Scapegoat? The life of Hans van Rensburg, leader of the Oxwagon-Sentinels'. This is a new study by Albert Blake, who has a position in the University of the Free State, and the study is released in both English and Afrikaans.
I got my hands on a paperback Afrikaans copy through Amazon. From a linguistic point of view; Afrikaans as a language has a vocabulary that is about 90% similar to Dutch, my mother tongue. Grammar is also very similar. Once you get used to it with some practice, it's quite easy to read
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Title : Anhelo de vivir [Esp. / Eng.]
The first turn in Vincent's lifeVincent van Gogh is about to turn twenty-one when Irving Stone begins to narrate this biographical novel. We are talking about 1874, he lives in London, England, he is a young man of vigorous figure, penetrating eyes and fire in his youth; he is in love for the first time and like every young man, he is idealistic; and like every young man in love, he exaggerates, he sees the love that walks in those who walk, he sees it in things, in the environment and he feels that life is opening for him, but also, he has everything to succeed; He is the best employee of the Goupil House, a company where the van Goghs have shares, dedicated to the sale of works of art; he has a salary of 5 pounds a month that by then allowed him to live comfortably; he has an important surname and a promising future as heir of the Gaupil Galleries in Paris, Berlin, The Hague and Asterdam. He is in love and is not reciprocated; he suffers, and comes to love that pain, unconsciously, as if it were a dear companion because thanks to him, Ursula, the girl he loves, is constantly by his side.
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Title : E- The Hound of the Baskervilles: Between Mystery and the Paranormal
My cousin is a lover of mystery novels; I owe him my new foray into this genre. It turns out that I was really looking forward to reading a good mystery, that is, one of those stories that turns you into a detective, infects you paragraph by paragraph and allows you to draw conclusions about suspected suspects. My electronic bookstore only recommends me contemporary stories, and honestly, none of them are good, maybe because most of them are juvenile and have to do with millionaire people (Mysterious and millionaire murderers, what nonsense!) LOL. So, overwhelmed, I asked my cousin for some recommendations, and he told me without hesitation:
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