Vicka Markov Surovtsov

This hasn't happened to me in a long time. I couldn't read it right through. I kept falling asleep. There's something about it that didn't work as a book. It's not "a good read". What I did manage to get down was sweet and I can see why Ms Surovtsov wanted to write it but the story telling lacked a style that kept it going. It was a sort of "Year in Provence" story without the humor or the English usage that would have made it read better for me. What it did do that was valuable was point out the absolute necessity for people to learn and practice tolerance, especially if they intend to try to share the same space as people of a differing culture. The lessons she and her George learned would have useful if they could have been jammed into the brains of George W. Bush and his Administration and made to form a part of their memory bases that would clutch in whenever they were working on the subject of foreign policy.… (meer)