David Rabinovitch answers 13 questions in a Booker's Dozen.

TPQ: What are you currently reading? 

DR: My Fight for Irish Freedom by Dan Breen.

TPQ: Best and worst books you have ever read? 

DR: Worst - Biting At The Grave by Padraig O'Malley. Best - Democracy Denied by Fr. Des Wilson.

TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?

DR: Anything by Robert Munsch. 

TPQ: Favourite Childhood author?

DR:
Robert Munsch. 

TPQ: First book to really own you?

DR: 
Trinity by Leon Uris.

A Berlin Book Tower in memory of the Nazi book burning.

TPQ: Favourite male and female author?

DR: 
Tim Pat Coogan and Bernadette Devlin.

TPQ:  A Preference for fact or fiction?

DR: Fact.  

TPQ: Biography, autobiography or memoir that most impressed you?

DR: 
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.

TPQ: Any author or book you point blank refuse to read?

DR: 
Ruth Dudley Edwards.

TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?

DR: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.


TPQ:
 Last book you gave as a present?

DR: Can't remember!

TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?

DR: Tim Pat Coogan's 
The Famine Plot.

TPQ: A "must read" you intend getting to before you die?

DR: 
Trail of Tears by John Ehle

  David Rabinovitch is a resident of Quebec. 

Booker's Dozen @ David Rabinovitch

David Rabinovitch answers 13 questions in a Booker's Dozen.

TPQ: What are you currently reading? 

DR: My Fight for Irish Freedom by Dan Breen.

TPQ: Best and worst books you have ever read? 

DR: Worst - Biting At The Grave by Padraig O'Malley. Best - Democracy Denied by Fr. Des Wilson.

TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?

DR: Anything by Robert Munsch. 

TPQ: Favourite Childhood author?

DR:
Robert Munsch. 

TPQ: First book to really own you?

DR: 
Trinity by Leon Uris.

A Berlin Book Tower in memory of the Nazi book burning.

TPQ: Favourite male and female author?

DR: 
Tim Pat Coogan and Bernadette Devlin.

TPQ:  A Preference for fact or fiction?

DR: Fact.  

TPQ: Biography, autobiography or memoir that most impressed you?

DR: 
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.

TPQ: Any author or book you point blank refuse to read?

DR: 
Ruth Dudley Edwards.

TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?

DR: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.


TPQ:
 Last book you gave as a present?

DR: Can't remember!

TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?

DR: Tim Pat Coogan's 
The Famine Plot.

TPQ: A "must read" you intend getting to before you die?

DR: 
Trail of Tears by John Ehle

  David Rabinovitch is a resident of Quebec. 

3 comments:

  1. I started Trail of Tears but found the style of language and descriptions very off-putting so didn't make much headway.

    I rarely don't finish a book, maybe less than half a dozen in my lifetime and would recommend anything by Dee Brown rather than this. I have read all of Brown's. Although, sayimg that, I intend to give Trail of Tears another go so may change my mind if I successfully finish it. If I remember it seemed a little New-age and verbose rather than Dee Brown's no nonsense concise approach.

    Dan Breen or the ghost writer, Kitty O'Doherty, disparages Séumas Robinson's role in Soloheadbeg, I believe in My Fight for Irish Freedom and states he wasn't as fine a commander as he undoubtedly was. Some say it was down to Robinson being a northerner, from Belfast but who knows, it may have been for any number of possible reasons.

    Good to see Coogan and Devlin getting a mention. I really enjoyed Coogan's Michael Collins.

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  2. Trinity now there’s a blast from the past, some good books here.

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    1. Rage - I read it during the hunger strikes. It was a great read.

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