Libri Library Review: La Fille Du Pirate, by Henri Émile Chevalier

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Once again, thank you to Librivox.org.  And I am STILL Waiting on pins and needles, argh!, as I schedule this for Lupin Part 3 to start up again, with Omar Sy!!!

 Well, I didn’t like this book so much, which I found on the lists of Librivox.  It was ok in places, but mostly boring.  We start on a ship in the Atlantic coming from Marseille, then to a prison in Quebec, with lots of char. changes.  Might have been better for me to read rather than listen to this one.
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Bon, ce livre, dont j’ai trouvé dans les listes gratuits de LibreVox.org, avait des bons endroits, mais pour le plus part, c’était moins intéressant et un peu ennuyeant.
On commence par une navire dans l’Atlantique, qui venait de Marseille, et en suite on est dans un prison a Québec, et ça change souvent de place et…

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♫ Hold The Line ♫

Filosofa's Word

dorothy-totoI was in search of a Stevie Wonder song to play tonight, but I’ve played them ALL in the past year!  Gee … one would think he was my favourite or something.  Anyway, in my search I came across this one that I have only played once before, and that was a couple of years ago.  For some reason, I forget about the band Toto, although I really like them.

According to SongFacts …

This pop nugget was the first single by Toto, a group made up of six very talented session musicians who had backed up artists like Boz Scaggs, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand and Jackson Browne. Written by their keyboard man David Paich with lead vocals by Bobby Kimball, it deals with the mysteries of love. It proved that a slick pop song created by top players could succeed without a great deal of hype or a charismatic…

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खज़ाना / Treasure

Kaushal Kishore

मेरे साथ कुछ सुखद यादें हैं,
फिर भी मैं प्रतीक्षा करता हूँ
उन सुखद क्षणों की,
जो और समृद्ध कर सकें
मेरी सुखद स्मृतियों
के खजाने को…

🪙 🪙 🪙

I have some
happy memories with me,
still I look forward
to happy moments
that can enrich my treasure
of happy memories…

–Kaushal Kishore

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What did the outside world in the 1930s know about the Soviet famine and the ‘Holodomor’ in Ukraine? · Global Voices

Before November this year, Ukraine and 14 other countries recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide against Ukrainians by the totalitarian regime of Joseph Stalin. By the 90th anniversary this year, GermanyIrelandMoldovaRomaniaBrazil, the Czech Republic and the Vatican, as well as the Belarus opposition in exile also did so, raising the number to 22.

Deliberate repressive measures that targeted Ukrainians in the USSR in 1932 and 1933 included appropriating Ukrainian grain while closing off the border between Ukraine SSR and other Soviet republics, and prohibiting the transport of food to affected areas.

Source: What did the outside world in the 1930s know about the Soviet famine and the ‘Holodomor’ in Ukraine? · Global Voices