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I've been gone a while. I started reading fanfiction to escape and I got sucked in an abyss.

I have no idea if someone else is hosting similar challenges. I just grabbed some of what I have hosted before.

Here's to a happy year of great reading
Jan2023: Not much has changed. Writing a fanfiction now O_o as well as reading but I bought 7 new books in December and hope to get those read soon. Crossing fingers about adding challenges (late!)

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Spotlight On . . . Pumpkinflower: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman

Pumpkinflowers
A Soldier's Story

Author: Matti Friedman
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 978-1-61620-458-7
Published: May 3, 2016
genre: Biographies, Military Memoirs
256 pages

format available: hardcover, ebook

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Description:
It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.



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print
arrived: Apr 2
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also review on libThing




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