Pushkin and the Queen of Spades : A Novel
Registered by loveamystery of Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on 4/30/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
From the back cover: "Windsor Armstrong has a problem: her brilliant boy, Pushkin X, has become a football superstar and is planning to marry a Russian lap dancer. In Windsor's opinion, Pushkin is throwing away every good thing she has given him. When she was an unwed teen mother, Windsor attended Harvard, leaving her shady Detroit roots behind. She raised her son to be fiercely intelligent, well-spoken, and proud. Now he lives for pro football and a white woman of no account. Outraged by her son's decisions but devoted to loving him right, Windsor prepares to give up her last secret: the identity of Pushkin's father."
This was quite a book! It explores the complicated theme of race and its consequences and impact on people and their lives in the US. Windsor probes into her own life history while coming to terms with her son''s soon to be marriage. She comes to realize that it is love that matters wherever it is found.
Journal Entry 3 by loveamystery at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, August 4, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (8/4/2007 UTC) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Releasing this book to a friend for week #30(jewellry-earing on front cover) of the Never Judge a Book By its Cover release challenge.
Friend returned it to me to release.
Releasing this book to a friend for week #30(jewellry-earing on front cover) of the Never Judge a Book By its Cover release challenge.
Friend returned it to me to release.
Journal Entry 4 by loveamystery from Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Released at the Vancouver Bookcrossing meet-up tonight. Enjoy!
Looking forward to reading this. Thanks loveamystery!
Journal Entry 6 by eicuthbertson at Waves Coffee - Columbia St in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (4/27/2010 UTC) at Waves Coffee - Columbia St in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Releasing at Seconds! the Bookcrossing Meetup
Come & join us!
When: Tuesday April 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Where: Waves Coffee,
715 Columbia Street,
New Westminster, BC
Releasing at Seconds! the Bookcrossing Meetup
Come & join us!
When: Tuesday April 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Where: Waves Coffee,
715 Columbia Street,
New Westminster, BC
Agree - a great read! Looking forward to reading Alice Randall's other books. Lots of cultural references to think about here.
just found it, missed placed after last meeting
Journal Entry 9 by Zooma at 49TH Parallel Coffee in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Monday, September 12, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (9/12/2011 UTC) at 49TH Parallel Coffee in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
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couldn't get in to it
Journal Entry 10 by vanbiohazard at North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Interesting book, I didn't like Windsor very much when I first met her. I thought she was a bigot, a snob, and way, way too judgmental. The more I read of her story and her background the more I softened towards her, at the same time she softens towards Tanya her beloved son's fiancee.
Journal Entry 11 by vanbiohazard at Rhizome Cafe in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (3/14/2012 UTC) at Rhizome Cafe in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Bringing to bookcrossing Meetup at the Rhizome. Come meet us, bring a book, take some books and have a damn fine cup of coffee.
