My blog BookSun is to collect all my little notes on the books that I recently read. There is not much reading I do every day. Usually I read a couple of pages, some late in my bed before I fall asleep, but in the course of year it can make a remarkable number of thoughts and impressions that I would like to keep alive in this way. Additionally, I will share my travel journals of the places I could visit.
Simon Sebag Montefiore "Jerusalem. The biography" A half of this fascinating book I had read in English, until I had shared with my father what interesting I had been reading. To my astonishment my father told me that he had already read it and gave me a volume in Polish. So I turned into my mother's language. There are some notes I did of the English version. First of all Preface makes a breathtaking introduction showing the history of Jerusalem as an pattern of the whole World history. This piece of land, recognized as the Holy City carries the burdens and tragedy of all humanity throughout the centuries. The history of Jerusalem is the history of the world... with this statement the book begins. But this is a peculiar way of writing on history, "In Jerusalem, the truth is often much less important than the myth. “In Jerusalem, don’t ask me the history of facts,” says the eminent Palestinian historian Dr. Nazmi al-Jubeh. “Take away the fction and the...
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