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Done. This book is one of the best books that I've read this year. I will gather my thoughts first and probably decide how many stars to give tomorrow when I write my review.

We don't know at this point whether Pasha, the son is still alive or dead. But the mother is still hoping and does her duty of delivering the books being used by the revolutionaries. My heart bleeds for the mother. Heartfelt read.

I am now in Book 2 and Pavel has already been captured. The mother is asking herself "What now?"... I am enjoying this because it tells about October Revolution in Russia and how the student revolutionaries and workers joined to start it all. Then how a previously domesticated mother gets caught in this huge change that swept Russia during that tumultuous time.

"Life in not a horse; you can't set it galloping with a whip." said one of the student revolutionaries. What I like about this book is that the revolutionaries are young and they are full of idealism. They are not evil like how people in democratic countries try to picture them who belong to socialist countries.

The son, Pavel, is learning the theory behind communism and it puts his life as well as his comrades ('just kids' the mother said) in danger. Then the mother becomes the errand mom of the young rebels. Cool...

The prose is surprisingly simple and easy to read. The story opens with a mother and a son during the pre-Communist Russia. Sorry state of workers' lives.