Michele Berdy's new book on Russian words and idioms

[Mark Kingdom]

....unfortunately it's out of stock at Amazon. Do you think it'd be on the
shelves
of BN?


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>wrote:

> I second everything Lynn says.  Michele writes about complex matters with
> extraordinary grace, subtlety and lightness.  Her columns are both
> entertaining and hugely informative.  I am really happy that this is at
> last
> available and I'm sure I'll be consulting it almost daily.
>
> Vsego samogo dobrogo - and thanks to Natasha Perova and GLAS for bringing
> this out!
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> > Colleagues teaching and studying Russian should thoroughly enjoy Michele
> > Berdy's new book, "The Russian Word's Worth," just out in Russia,
>  published
> > by GLAS and distributed by Northwestern University Press in the US.
> Nearly
> > 500 pages long, it contains some  five years of Mickey's  "The Word's
> Worth"
> > columns, more than 200 of them, from the *Moscow Times *dealing with
> dozens
> > of difficulties in Russian for English speakers, and dozens of idioms.
>  The
> > book is organized by themes with mini-intros and a  detailed index. Many
> of
> > us have been reading these columns for years, and it will be great for
> > teachers and students to finally have them all in one place.  It's
> available
> > on Amazon. (PS -  I have no vested or commercial interest whatever in
> this
> > book - just think that it will be invaluable for everyone!)
> >
> > Lynn Visson
> >
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