David Rabinovitch answers 13 questions in a Booker's Dozen.
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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.
DR: Anything by Robert Munsch.
TPQ: Favourite Childhood author?
DR: Robert Munsch.
TPQ: First book to really own you?
DR: Trinity by Leon Uris.
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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.
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.
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
DR: Trail of Tears by John Ehle
⏭ David Rabinovitch is a resident of Quebec.
I started Trail of Tears but found the style of language and descriptions very off-putting so didn't make much headway.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
Trinity now there’s a blast from the past, some good books here.
ReplyDeleteRage - I read it during the hunger strikes. It was a great read.
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