tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post431927178934725845..comments2024-02-26T13:12:10.143-05:00Comments on Lizok's Bookshelf: Yasnaya Polyana Award 2016 Longlists + Five Books About Russia (in English)Lisa C. Haydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-19571372924092819082016-06-13T09:52:45.297-04:002016-06-13T09:52:45.297-04:00Languagehat, yes, unfortunately. Though certain sh...Languagehat, yes, unfortunately. Though certain sharing of WSJ links does seem to work. (Which is why I was hoping that this sharing might work.) <br /><br />I often find I can get beyond paywalls (this has worked with The Financial Times, for example) by Googling something and clicking through from my Google results... only that works, though, not entering the link. <br /><br />One of the mysteries of the modern world, I suppose.Lisa C. Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-53832928487743218892016-06-13T09:39:03.816-04:002016-06-13T09:39:03.816-04:00Your subscription means that you can see it, but i...Your subscription means that you can see it, but it doesn't help your subscriptionless readers.Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-34255181279193999362016-06-12T20:45:22.547-04:002016-06-12T20:45:22.547-04:00Thank you for the recommendations, Philip Price! I...Thank you for the recommendations, Philip Price! I'm even more interested in <i>The Noise of Time</i> now because I've always enjoyed Prokofiev. Good to know, too, about the Fitzpatrick book. <br /><br />I'll add the other titles above. I was hoping the article would be accessible since I have a WSJ subscription. (Or maybe the problem is that I only pay $1 a week for said subscription? :-)) Lisa C. Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-618948263380561522016-06-12T20:26:58.906-04:002016-06-12T20:26:58.906-04:00I thought The Noise of Time was pretty good - I pa...I thought The Noise of Time was pretty good - I particularly liked the tragicomic cameo role taken by poor old Prokofiev - and it seems like a lot of the detail in the novel is true, which if so is highly intriguing.<br /><br />I can't see the Wall Street Journal article because of the firewall, but one recent book about Russia I really loved was Sheila Fitzpatrick's memoir A Spy in the Archives. I found it utterly gripping, and it made me wish I'd been born a decade or two earlier so I could have lived in and really experienced the Soviet Union like she did.Philip Pricenoreply@blogger.com