Books and People: Only some of movies based on John Le Carre's novels are on Amazon Prime

Russia House--Yes.

The Night Manager- Yes

Our Kind of Traitor--Yes

The Constant Gardener--rent or buy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy--rent or buy.

I don't really like to rent or buy movies online--

I'm already reading The Constant Gardener--which is very good, set in Kenya.

I prefer to buy used books so I can keep the book, refer to it and re-read it if I wish.

Some books I gave away to grandkid--but regret it.

Some I sold at yard sales.

Some I consider mistaken purchases, or that don't appeal to me that much,I gave to local library. Some I took as gifts when traveling places--

But now I don't travel, and local library only wants new books, so I just collect those I don't wish to keep, as have too many and sometimes I buy 2 copies by mistake--so I gave one copy of Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, about a bull fighter, to a waiter who said he had a motor-cycle accident-

And I gave a copy of Conn Iggulden's Genghis series,City of Silver, to a former colleague from Rangoon Eco Inst,later in MD who gave me about $300 for a book cover (Rider of Crocodiles) as he liked the present cover which was custom made for me--

and didn't want the generic cover I was thinking of to save money,

Roland was from the Commerce Dept--and I saw him only once in America at a mutual friend's wedding.

Sadly, he died from injuries after a fall in his garage.

When our mutual close friend Yasmeen (name changed) died in Burma, R. wanted to call me, but I was about to go to Berlin or Helsinki, one or the other, and I said, "You can email me anything," and so he did.

This is getting to be quite the usual thing, and it makes me feel like the Russian Exiles in Nabokov's short story collection, A Baker's Dozen, which I read in Burma.

Books were very scarce in Burma, so the RFA, VP, DS's remark--egged on by jerk boss junta goats' balls, "Just review the books (don't dramatize them) "made no sense whatsoever.

I got to read some books like Ragtime and Godfather bc my husband's boss liked to read, and had a long-standing Danish connection (he had saved a Danish trader from the Japanese during WW II) and so I got to read Uncle MK's books after he had read them.

I read them fast and promptly returned them.

Thank you, Uncle, so many years ago.

Aunty Chit Chit "Love Love" was a superb chef

who cooked dressed as if she was going to a wedding, so Aunty Chit Chit told me stories, and I could discuss politics with Uncle.

Also, added bonus, Chief Justice U Myint Thein,trained at the Inner Temple in London, was their permanent house guest, after he was widowered, and was always there at dinner time.

I can't say I like business people. They are boring as hell and don't know a thing.

Aunty's house and garden were also beautiful, and Chief Justice (of the democractically-elected governmen t of U Nu) had been Burmese Ambassador to Peking in the 1950s, but he did notlike to talk about those times.

He just said cryptically, "Yes,those were interesting times."

He gave me back a B and W photo of my father, but silver fish got it while it was in a drawer in my husband's wardrobe.

So it goes in Burma.

Kyi May Kaung

3-26-2026

Genghis and Sons.