YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett

Catherine over at Illiriyan Gazette

http://illyriangazette.blogspot.com/

Just HAD to Tag me, and on a day when I just don't give a damn since there isn't a huge news overload for Balkans news, z ašto ne? I mean there is no where for a zeka to go in this wind. It's cold but not too bad out. No snow hvala Bog, but we are going to stay in and discuss books since the Adult Snow Child is safely elsewhere. She went to go take her husband some lunch at his work, and probably then will go home and sleep, until time to get him from work.

So here is a book I can totally recomend:

'Irish Raj' the author is Narinder Kapur, and it is the stories of people from India who went to live in Ireland, and Irish people who lived for various reasons in India.

People to meet in the book:

Sake Deen Mohammed The First Indian Author in English

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Indian-Author-English-1759-1851/dp/019565238X,
he was possibly the first Indian to settle for a lengthy time in Ireland, he opened a Turkish bath, and previously was 'shampooing physician' to King George IV. I did not know that he was an author until I decided to Google him up so I could include a picture of a man who was very elegant.

He was also very long lived, he lived to be 102, and is buried in Brighton, England

St. Nicholas Churchyard

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__6577_path__0p115p187p946p.aspx

There is an aptness that a Muslim who lived in a time when few Muslims lived in the British Isles being buried in the churchyard at St. Nicholas's Church since St. Nicholas is the Patron Saint for Muslims and Jews, a fact that is hilarilous given his opinions of people of these faiths!But I digress.

A family of Romany who live in India, sorry no names, just a cool picture of this Indian family of Romany.The picture accompanies a short explaination that Romany come originally from India and what their caste status were in those long ago times and what their status is now.


Lal Khan: an enterprising clothing seller who worked in Northern Ireland and never really learned English well. None the less a very successful businessman! He knew when to have his wife help him!

Rabindranath Tagore, who corresponded with bothWilliam Butler Yeats and Padraig H. Pearse,
And Margaret and James Cousins who went from Ireland to India and who did a lot to help women in India.

So let's see who I can now victimize.....hmmm Majkle over at The Glory of Carniola


Ed Alexander over at Balkan Baby

doesn't look to be up to much filleting or storm sitting out, or writing in his blog either....


and What's his name over at estavisti

because I think he can come up with some interesting reading....
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Andy at Csikszereda Musings tagged me for this one with the introduction that 'Like a bus, you can wait years to be tagged and then loads come all at once.'

This post has ended up equally like a bus in that when you're waiting for the damn thing, it takes its own sweet time to turn up.

Anyway, a week ago I was supposed to do the following:

1. Once nominated, name one book you'd recommend wholeheartedly and explain your choice within one paragraph.


2. Nominate three people that you'll introduce to your readers in one paragraph.


3. Let these people know that they've been tagged.


4. Refer back to the person who tagged you, so that readers can travel back as well.

Let's go with Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, then. It's the story of an intersex teenager growing up in 1970s Detroit; two incestuous Greek lovers' escape from Smyrna to America in 1922; and the intersection of big-brush American history and Greek diaspora life in between. Eugenides ties the whole plot up with allusions and foreshadowings as tight as brown paper packages tied up with strings, which appropriately enough makes it one of my favourite things.

Tag, you're it: Katja, who fillets Balkan news and battles storms in the Yakima Gulag;