I love searching through the wonderful blogs associated with this group, but sometimes I'd just like to find a new book to read! I thought this would be a great place to JUST post review links! Here's my latest:
As part of the summer reading series, I just posted my review of Beach Trip. Discussion begins Tuesday, feel free to join us! The author will be online at 4PM PT
My Livejournal page is relatively empty and lonely. I feel as though my entire site's pretty remote at the moment amongst all the other pages on the internet. There's a few reviews here intermixed with several excerpts of stories and streams of consciousness on random topics.
Read my first book .
Title : Sabir the Egyptian - you can find it on Amazon.com and others.
It is about a man called Sabir the Egyptian, he was not a king nor belonged to a noble family; he was an ordinary man, the son of a poor fisherman who lived in Alexandria some 200 years ago.
His fate placed him in the middle of the most exiting events the world witnessed at that time , he was enslaved by the St. John Knights in Malta when he was seventeen ,only to be freed by Napoleon ten years later, he worked as an interpreter for the French Army that sacked Egypt in the so called "Egypt Campaign" which lasted three years when thousands of villages were burned down by the blood thirsty French soldiers and thousands of young , old males and females of Arabs , Turks , Africans , Bedouins who happened to be in Egypt at that time were killed , many of them were engaged in defending their freedom and dignity .
The French army had many scientists in his ranks to study ancient and contemporary Egypt but also three hundred Parisian prostitutes, Napoleon wanted to persuade the Egyptians to accept him and his army as being Muslims, just as the Amon monks accepted Alexander the Great and declared him to be the Son of Amon, Napoleon and his army made it impossible for any one to believe that they were Muslims or anything but crooks and vagabonds.
The resistance was fierce and the losses on both sides were heavy.
The author hopes that he has painted a picture of how the relationship between the orient and the west should never be again.
It is a book filled with Pirates, Knights, Worriers, Freedom Fighters, and the Corps of Mujahideen placed in a glass box in a Parisian museum that needs to find a final resting grave.