Jennifer Eremeeva

This book is great. I often had to laugh aloud while reading. [[Jennifer Eremeeva]] has the talent to describe her everyday life in Moscow in such a way that one feels in the middle of it and yet is grateful not to have to experience it one by one. She talks about marriages, life on dachas, the sheer madness on Moscow's streets, the sheer endless flow of alcohol and its effects, how to get a decent place to live, how to get in, how to get into better social circles and how the festivals are celebrated, etc. She bluntly writes what she experiences with her friends. It is written witty and you want it to never stop.… (altro)

Have Personality Disorder will Rule Russia: An Iconoclastic History by a Recovering Russophile by Jennifer Eremeeva is a short, self-published, sarcastic, brief history of three of Russia's most famous Czars: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great. I was most disappointed because it spoke nothing of their mental conditions, which I thought would be the focus of this book. Upon researching AFTER I read this book, I discovered it was a companion book to Lenin Lives Next Door written primarily to give background history to that book. As to anything historical in the book, there was nothing that I could not find in the high school textbook that I use in my classroom. Very disappointing. Glad it was really short! 135 pages 2 stars.… (altro)