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Mar 30, 2023
"Grand" Story line...
Germany in the 1920s must have been electric. And the characters in this story are equally so:
First, there's Baron Gaigen... not quite 30, a shrewd cat-burglar and lover.
Then, there's Herr Kringelein... a 47 y.o. dying but high on life ex-cotton plant worker who has left his wife and life behind in order to live out his last days high-on-the-hog in the grandest of hotels.
And then there's Herr General Director Preysing, he's a 54 y.o. business man and Herr Kringelein's ex boss, and he's willing to commit his first dishonest act of his career to successfully finish a big business deal. He, too, has a family who he loves dearly, but, well...
And of course, there's the aging ballerina Grusinskaya. We don't know how old she is, exactly. She still wants fame, but realizes she just doesn't have "it" anymore, and just wants to be alone. But then she meets Baron Gaigen and her life is changed.
Then there's Dr. Ottenschlag, a dedicated doctor who was not only wounded, but had half his face blown off in The Great War. He lives out his days sitting in the Grand Hotel, philosophizing and hoping someone will ask for him.
And lastly, there's Flamm, or Flammchen the Second, as she's called... A lively nineteen year old very apt stenographer who offers more than her secretarial abilities in order to survive.
Vicki Baun writes beautifully in this story set between the two great wars, and set in the Grand Hotel. It's also set within the lives of characters who just happened to be in the hotel for a couple of days, and whose lives become entangled, some for the better; others not so. How nice it was to live then; how nice to have money then. How nice to be wanted and needed then. And how nice it will be if, like me, you will read this.
May 13, 2023
The Prince, The Showgirl, Me, and ME!
I'm always interested in things about Marilyn and things British and this was a perfect combination.
May 18, 2022
Just As Human
It isn't that the author describes his ride in the train going from the Tombs (Jail) in NYC, up past High Bridge in the Bronx on his way up to Sing Sing. It isn't his first few days in prison when he felt completely lost in his 7ft long x 3.5ft wide x 6ft high cell. It isn't that he witnessed and experienced things that no man should witness or experience. It isn't any of these things. It's that, in all his living amid life's turmoil, he was just like you and me. He had loves and lives during his life. He was just like everyone else. He was just as human.