If you’d be so kind, I’d appreciate a link back from your own post.Write a blog post about a book that you own that you haven’t read yet.Want to participate in Shelf Control? Here’s how: I’m going to really try to make a point of reading Blood Red, Snow White this year. Any one or two of those elements on their own would be enough to catch my attention, but put them all together? Yes, please. I think the tag line on the cover captures exactly why I felt drawn to this book: Fairy tale, spy thriller, love story in the Russian Revolution. This is one of 3 or 4 sitting on my shelves, waiting to be read. But when he attempts to extract himself and Evgenia from the complicated politics and politicians that he fears will lead them both to their deaths, the decisions he faces are the most dangerous and difficult of his life.Īfter falling under the spell of Marcus Sedgwick’s Midwinterblood ( review), I tracked down several more of his books. Arthur wants only to elope far from the conflict with his beloved. Both sides seek to use Arthur for their own purposes…and, as he struggles to find autonomy, both sides grow to suspect him of being a double agent. Unwittingly, he finds himself at its center, tapped by the British to report back on the Bolsheviks even as he becomes dangerously romantically entangled with revolutionary leader Trotsky’s personal secretary. When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his home in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, it is with little idea of the violent revolution about to erupt. What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads) :

See the guidelines at the bottom of the post, and jump on board! Want to join in? Shelf Control posts go up every Wednesday. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! Fore more info on what Shelf Control is all about, check out my introductory post, here. Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves. Ransome leaves his unhappy marriage in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist for the Daily News. Welcome to Shelf Control - an original feature created and hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies. Russian fairytale and historical fact combine in this compelling account of Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome and his experiences in revolutionary Russia.

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