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Maus I
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History | Art Spiegelman
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The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel
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IndianBookworm
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For my first graphic book ever, it was wonderful. It has been on my TBR for so long and I just happened to pick it up after watching some stuff on the holocaust.
Coming to the book it has amazing illustrations, loved that the writer used different animals to depict the hierarchy of people involved. I can't even begin to describe the atrocities, but I'd like to mention how good are the minute details, which are easily missed in a sec.
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IndianBookworm ↪️ Also, the book has a good flow, keeping you hooked till the end and yet setting a great premise for the second part. 8mo
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LinesUponAPage
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Have you read The Graphic Novel (comic book at the time it was released) Maus?
It‘s an interesting way to the tell the story of an Auschwitz survivor.

*check out the gorgeous handwriting our purchasing librarian has. 🤩

OrangeMooseReads This is a good one. 10mo
LinesUponAPage @OrangeMooseReads did you read book number two, also? 10mo
OrangeMooseReads @BookingitwithSandra Yes, I did. It‘s just as good. 10mo
LinesUponAPage @OrangeMooseReads thanks! I‘ve requested it from the library. 10mo
OrangeMooseReads @BookingitwithSandra you‘re welcome 😊 10mo
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SamAnne
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Finally read this heartbreaking masterpiece. Difficult read, should be required reading. Now on to Maus 2.

Ephemera I think it is required reading for high school students, or used to be 13mo
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Mccall0113
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My daughter got her very own library card today!

Ruthiella 👏👏👏A significant event in every reader‘s life! 😃 2y
EKonrad I still have my first card - I got it when I was 7. 😊 2y
Mccall0113 @EKonrad Merida is 7 :) 2y
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ravenlee Woohoo! Congrats, super reader! Look out, world. 2y
Blueberry 💚 2y
Librarianaut Hooray!!! Congrats! 2y
Dragon Yay! Congratulations! 💚🐉 2y
Bookzombie Awesome! 🎉 2y
BookwormM Yay for new readers what a cutie 🥰 2y
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MeganAnn
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Final April #bookspinbingo board! One bingo including North and South which I bailed on and never really felt like picking back up.

Favorites this month are 5⭐️ reads
The Heart‘s Invisible Furies #authoramonth
Never Let Me Go #lmpbc
Don‘t Hex and Drive #roll100
Maus I, which the kiddo and I both loved.

Since my last post, finished the third #roll100 book Valley of Horses, another hollows series reread The Undead Pool & Barbarian Alien on KU.

PuddleJumper Wahoo! 2y
MeganAnn @MaleficentBookDragon I‘ve had the next #lmpbc book packed up and ready to mail out to you all week but haven‘t managed to make it to the post office with work and the kiddo‘s after school activities. I‘ve blocked off time to get to the post office tomorrow morning though so it will be on its way to you. Sorry for the delay! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I literally only finished North & South because I was reading just one chapter a day, so I could at least get through that much LOL It was okay, but not an overall win for me. 2y
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MaleficentBookDragon @MeganAnn Do you have tracking for the #LMPBC book? It has not arrived.
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MeganAnn @MaleficentBookDragon I haven‘t looked at Litsy all week and I just saw this. So sorry for the delay!! Tracking shows that the book was delivered yesterday. Did you get it? 2y
MaleficentBookDragon @MeganAnn yes it did! Thank you. I‘m starting it tonight. 2y
MeganAnn @MaleficentBookDragon oh good! I promise I‘ll get the next book out on time. 2y
MaleficentBookDragon @MeganAnn no worries. I was afraid it got lost in the mail. Or worse, that I had got it and then lost it when I was sick and couldn‘t remember. 2y
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Texreader
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I am very excited to have supported my local indie bookstore today (Nowhere Books) and to purchase these books that have been sadly and inappropriately banned in some schools in the USA.

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LibraryCin
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I liked this better this second time around. Maybe I was paying better attention. I feel like I caught more of what was going on in the “present-day” story, between Spiegelman‘s father and his 2nd wife, in addition to between father and son. I thought this was done well, and didn‘t have too hard a time following the time shifts. And of course, his father‘s survival story during WWII is one well worth reading

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ElizaMarie
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ElizaMarie
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My next #GraphicNovel read :) Had this for some time and misplaced it at one point. I have been meaning to get into this :)

#JustAnotherGraphicMonday
@Bookworm54 @AkashaVampie @AsYouWish @jb72 @AnansiGirl

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Bookish_Gal
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Did not know about this book till it was removed from TN school curriculum. Due to one scene of nudity and few swears. What‘s important about this book is that it offends you. That‘s not bad. It means you won‘t let it happen again. This is a difficult read, child interviewing father in surviving the Holocaust. You can feel the desperation, the horror of day to day, trying to survive. This first half sets up for Authswtiz. Aka hell on earth

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Sarahreadstoomuch
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This is just brilliant. Why hadn‘t I read this before? It‘s an absolute stunner and I am now anxiously awaiting volume 2.

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AmyK1
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My son read this in school and it was one of the only books he (a non reader) actually liked. I hadn‘t read it but figured I‘d better since some people believe it should be banned. It took a little while to get my hands on a copy but I finally found it. This is excellently done. The artwork and storytelling are amazing. Everyone should read this.

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AmyK1
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Sunday afternoon #bookhaul #readbannedbooks

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Amiable
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Despite its status as the only graphic novel to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize, “Maus” was recently banned by a Tennessee district because of its “unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide.”

This. This is what the school board finds offensive. Cartoon boobs and the word “bitch.” Not the Nazis or the genocide, apparently. Because the violence of the Holocaust is what the entire book is all about.

kspenmoll So well stated. Thank you! 2y
Amiable @kspenmoll I was so angered to read that one of the school officials who voted for the ban admitted that he hadn‘t actually read the book —he just “heard” that it was inappropriate. In another article I read, Art Spiegelman said he got the impression that the board members want to teach “a nicer Holocaust.” There are literally no words in response to that level of idiocy. (edited) 2y
kspenmoll @Amiable “a nicer Holocaust?!” Beyond scary. 2y
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Amiable
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The first installment of a nonfiction book presented in graphic novel style, written by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. In stunning and intricate detail, it depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Recently banned by a Tennessee school district and removed from its 8th-grade curriculum.
#Nonfiction2022
Prompt: I‘m Out Of Your Comfort Zone— WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT OF IT

kspenmoll Both books are marvelous. We actually use them in our HS curriculum. 2y
Amiable @kspenmoll My son read both books when he was in 8th grade —he took a history class that focused on Germany in the decades leading up to the rise of the Third Reich. It was a powerful and enlightening lesson for him to experience. 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I love that banning a book often has the reverse effect of making people take notice of it & read it. #BannedBooks 2y
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Graywacke
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Rereading with a group on LibraryThing in response to the recent school district banning. I‘ve read this a few times now, but still I had forgotten so much, and still I was surprised, again, how powerful it is. (And still I missed tons of artistic details like the swastika Poland landscape here after Vladek and Anja‘s escape the ghetto and then have no where to hide.)

GingerAntics I don‘t think I noticed the swastika waking path either. It‘s so glaringly obvious. How did I miss that before? 2y
TheBookHippie I‘ve been rereading it as well. I think I see something new everytime I read it. The art is very intricate. 2y
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RebL
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I am lurking in the #LibraryThing group read: https://www.librarything.com/topic/339164 Anyone else?

SqueakyChu I‘m not lurking there. I‘m posting! 😊 2y
SqueakyChu Come join the conversation! 2y
RebL @SqueakyChu w00t! Perhaps I will, or maybe I'll decide to continue to lurk. 2y
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SqueakyChu We‘re a very friendly group. Please don‘t be shy to add some comments. It‘s nicer when more people participate. We get lots of different opinions that way. 2y
SqueakyChu @RebL Glad to have you in our Maus conversation on #LibraryThing! 😊 2y
Graywacke Like @SqueakyChu I‘ve joined and I‘m posting - LT username dchaikin. 2y
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Graywacke
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It‘s time to read this again. (This copy is autographed to wife.)

TheBookHippie ♥️ 2y
GingerAntics 💙💙💙 2y
batsy So brilliant. Really hit me hard when I first read it. 2y
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Amiable I pulled my copy out of our bookshelves this week to read, too. 2y
AmyG Oooo a signed copy! 2y
Graywacke @Amiable 👍 I‘m tempted to buy another copy (and, if I could, gift it to some curious kid in that TN school district). 2y
Graywacke @TheBookHippie @GingerAntics @batsy it‘s so special. A wow for me when I first discovered it. 2y
Graywacke @AmyG she‘s so lucky. He spoke at her tiny college when she was an undergrad (1990‘s) 2y
SqueakyChu I have Maus 1, but no longer Maus 2, and the hold at my Library is so long. Maus 1 is a reread for me as would be Maus 2. What I remember most about Maus 2 is the walk to the gas chambers. I read that part imagining what my maternal grandparents must have felt on that walk. That chilling image remains with me in a way that no other Holocaust book has ever affected me. 2y
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AmyG
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I‘m guessing the banning of books in schools will make kids not only aware of these books, it will make them want to read these books. #NeverForget

JamieArc I had to read this for French class in college. It started my interest in graphic novels. Here‘s hoping Maus finds its way into even more hands and minds now! 2y
DrexEdit I saw on Wil Wheaton's facebook page this morning a very nice thing. He's encouraging his followers to buy a set of these books for one of the 12 or so comic book shops in the McMinn Co. area for the shops to give for free to anyone asking. He was personally going to buy 2 sets for every shop. I thought that was a very nice and positive way to address this. Because I agree, more people will be aware of and want to read these books now! 2y
AmyG @DrexEdit That is awesome. I have read about other people buying them to distribute. @JamieArc I bet these find their way into the hands of people who never heard of them before. They were my first graphic novels, too. 2y
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sarahbarnes I read them in college too and still have my copies. My 13yo daughter recently got interested in them. ❤️ 2y
AmyG @sarahbarnes Our kids need to learn about this. If they can do shooter drills in school, they can learn about the Holicaust. 2y
lynneamch That is fantastic @DrexEdit I hadn't heard about the Wil Wheaton idea and I live in the next county over. Here's one aspect that blew me away: the "female nudity" that was found objectionable was actually a mouse. 2y
Chrissyreadit @DrexEdit I‘m glad to hear what Wil Wheaton did. 2y
bthegood I bought a copy a few months ago , unaware of all the controversy, from a used book store - 🙂 (edited) 2y
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ManyWordsLater
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Pandemic crisis got me like “why not read all the saddest stories?”

It‘s important to remember the tragedies that have come before. That we are not alone in our suffering and how much worse it could be.

I guess this is how I read during a #quarantine. In the kitchen while “cooking”
Cookies are almost done!

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Bookworm_97
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One of the most important Holocaust Comic🖤🖤🖤

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drakeegunter
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Maus is a historical fiction graphic novel about the holocaust by Art Spiegelman. Maus takes place before WWII when hitler commanded the nazis to exterminate all the jews.

LitsyWelcomeWagon Welcome to Litsy! Here are links to #Litsytips: http://bit.ly/litsytips and #LitsyHowTo videos: goo.gl/UrCpoU. There‘s lots of fun things to do: book exchanges, buddy reads, photo challenges and more! @litsywelcomewagon 4y
LibrarianRyan Hello. Welcome and Happy Reading! 4y
Readswithcoffee Welcome to Litsy ☕️📚📚📚☕️ 4y
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StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Welcome to Litsy 👻📚👻 4y
Slajaunie Welcome to Litsy! 💙📖 4y
Eggs Welcome to Litsy 👏🏻👏🏻 4y
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AshleyHoss820
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No matter what form it‘s portrayed in, The Holocaust is hard to look at. This had such powerful imagery and the story of Vladek‘s life intermingled with Art‘s relationship with his father makes a moving narrative. I highly recommend this graphic novel. But be warned: Spiegelman doesn‘t hold back.

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ravenlee
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A difficult read but a good one. Not ready to dive into volume two just yet.

Book four done for #24B4Monday and on to number five.

@Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid

BeansPage Woohoo 🙌🙌🙌 5y
Andrew65 👏🙌👏🙌👏👍 5y
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LitsyGetsGraphic
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How were desperate things that Vader father-in-law gave over grandparents??? What was under this decision?

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LitsyGetsGraphic
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I found this sketch of Art‘s dream in Meta Maus book. It seems that the difficulty of Vladek‘s character still chases him even after The Complete Maus was published. Did their relationship progress during the interviews? What kind of relationship it was? Did Art‘s feelings change?

LukkiAnn I think he started to understand more his father, but still there are lot of distance between them. 6y
Eyelit I agree @LukkiAnn about the distance. I think that relationship is always one that will be strained, for a variety of reasons (also thanks for the heads up on meta Maus - I need to see if my library has it!) 6y
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LitsyGetsGraphic
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Vladek and Anja had special relationship from the beginning. What particular story touched you the most? Why Vladek could not safe her from the suicide? What do you think really happened to Anja in the end of her life?

LukkiAnn I was so touched by this photo. My favorite was then Vladek was trying to find anything for Anja on his way back. He even managed to find a fur coat for her but it was stolen. I was trying to find out that actual happen to her, it seems that she was not able to ask for help when she actually need it. She was still a prisoner of war like Vladek 😢😢😢 6y
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LitsyGetsGraphic
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Why does Vladek ask Art not to write about Lucia in his book? Why doesn‘t Art listen to his father? Do you think it is right for Art to break his promise?

sebrittainclark I think Vladek was trying to keep some parts of his life private and by including it Art shows the reader that he's including everything, good and bad. It creates a sense of trust that Art is telling the reader everything, even if it goes against Vladek's wishes. 6y
LukkiAnn I was very confused by this page. He did not cover many his father‘s flaws showing him like no hero. But this one was kind of personal. Probably because his father felt guilt about Lucia 🤔 6y
LukkiAnn And it is a kind of sorry for her 6y
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bookworm.krizia
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I likes this book. It is hard not to like it. I love how its not all that sad as you might expect from a Holocaust book because it is interspersed with light moments between father and son. However, it is an eye-opener. I think it wants us to know the effects of the Holocaust, what happens after and not just what happened during. I also liked how he characterized Jews as mice and Germans as cats. A new perspective on the Holocaust. @Trashcanman

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StephanieGeiser
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4/5 ⭐️

This book is a graphic novel about a father telling his son about his experiences during the holocaust. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning about this time period in history.

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js0315
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This was a well-written account of Spiegelman's father's account of the holocaust. Graphic novel form, I've really taken a liking to reading these.

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ReadingOver50
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My daughter was assigned to read this book for school, so of course I read it to. Any story about the holocaust is a sad story. This one is no exception. Told in graphic novel form, it is the true story of the author's father, who survived the Nazi concentration camps. Once again, I am struck with the feeling of disbelief. How could this have happened. Why did the people let this happen.

kyraleseberg I seriously just finished reading this five minutes before I opened Litsy! This was so amazing! 6y
littlebeesreads Love this book. I met the author in October and got my copy signed. He was such a nice person. The story of his father‘s life during the holocaust is heartbreaking 6y
OrangeMooseReads I read both volumes for a class, Holocaust Representations in Literature, they are amazing. The words only tell part of the story, Spiegelman packed A LOT into the pictures to tell the rest of it. (edited) 6y
Krj2017 Reading this right now for my Practical Criticism class. Such an emotional read. 6y
JenniferJarrell I read this recently. It‘s so, so well done. (edited) 6y
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SaraBeagle
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18 books read in January:
3 audio
11 #MtTBR
6 library books
And only 1 purchased, which was my BOTM!

Booksnchill Vonnegut ❤️👍 6y
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SoniaC
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Just finished volume one. So moving and powerful. Everyone should read this. It‘s absolutely heartbreaking. I just kept wishing it was a work of fiction.

SusanInTiburon Agree! 6y
Nat_Reads Yes 🙌 6y
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SoniaC
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First book of 2018. Only a few pages in but already loving it. I know it‘s going to get really hard to read really soon. Thought I‘d share this panel. It really hit home.

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Marmie7
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Another #bookhaul from #goodwill I think it's time for a new book case🙄 The Maus graphic novels are like new! The Dresden files books are too, couldn't pass these up.

GrilledCheeseSamurai I am slowly working my way through the Dresden books. Long ways to go still but I really like them! 👍 6y
Marmie7 @GrilledCheeseSamurai I've only read the first one so far, but I really enjoyed it. I'm slowly collecting the series. ☺️ 6y
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ElishaLovesBooks
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Reading this with the 8th graders. I love how accessible it is for students. The kids are so motivated and engaged. It‘s honest and raw and favcilitates great discussion. #teachersoflitsy

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Kristy_K
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No matter how many biographies, history books, or memoirs I read about WWII, each one gets to me. The atrocities committed by the Nazis are mind boggling. I felt like Spiegelman did a great job staying true to his father's story as he told it.
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#WWII #graphicnovel

KathyWheeler This is a great book. It was my university's Common Read book a few years ago and generated a lot of discussion. 7y
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kendrastephaniekaryn
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Today in exciting book-related news! It's finally official, so I can announce that I'm speaking on a panel of teachers at the Edmonton Entertainment Expo. As an inclusive education teacher, I'll be focusing on how comics can help learners with exceptional needs. I'm excited but mostly nervous. #teachersoflitsy

Read.Em.And.Eat Congratulations Kendra!! That's so awesome! 7y
moranadatter Congrats!🎈 7y
kendrastephaniekaryn @Read.Em.And.Eat @moranadatter Thank you!! ☺ 7y
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drokka Congratulations! 7y
LeahBergen So awesome! 7y
TrishB 👍👍 7y
Moonpa Congratulations! 7y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Excellent graphic novel! Talking to our elders isn't always easy, and this comic reflects that, but the stories of his father's time during the Nazi Era is both touching and heartbreaking and incredibly timeless.

LA_Mead YES! I loved Maus. Going to have to read it again. That and "The Watchmen." 7y
kspenmoll ❤️ 7y
Jadams89 I read this for a Holocaust class in college. Both volumes are very good and powerful. 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Jadams1776 I picked up the second volume today! 7y
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starlight97
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Art Spiegelman tells the story of his father, who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. He depicts Jews as mice, Poles as pigs and Germans as cats. I think this makes the book even more interesting. Only 4 stars, because the English is sometimes incorrect, and that was a bit annoying for me.
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starlight97
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I like this Pulitzer-winning comic memoir so far, but the sometimes incorrect English is a bit annoying for me

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booksbaconglitter
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Woo boy this is hitting close to home. 😢

Kristy_K I've had this on my tbr for a while now. I really need to read it. 7y
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Emily92Bibliophile
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Maus A survivor's tale is my favorite graphic novel as of this year. While it's difficult for me to read them, I love reading survivors' stories in living through the Holocaust. I feel that this is a way I can respect those who both survived&those who did not, & seeing it in graphic novel form made it even more real. While my cat Ariadne ⬆️ is in no way evil, the visualization of Cat & Mouse was powerful. @britt_brooke #RememberRememberGiveaway

britt_brooke Great photo! I own this but haven't read it yet. Moving it up in my TBR. And thanks for entering! 🤞🏻 7y
Texreader I agree with your sentiment. I'll have to check out this graphic novel 7y
monkeygirlsmama Second time in as many days as I've seen good things about this one on Litsy. I simply must find a copy! 7y
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Africa_Reads
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A picture speaks a thousand words, and the images in the book, present a very graphical and immensely powerful tale in a way that words wouldn't be able to. Utterly powerful and touching.

The best book on the horrors the Jews experienced at the hands if Hitler.

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TheKidUpstairs
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A friend introduced me to this #graphic non-fiction story in university, and it opened my eyes to the possibility of the form. I no longer saw graphics as just the "silly" superhero comics my brother used to read (for the record, I no longer look down on comics either - they're not for me, but I no longer think they're silly. Personal growth for the win!)

#sizzlinsummerreads @tiffy_reads

Maggie4483 I read this in college too! And it also changed my opinion of graphic novels and comics. Such a good book. 7y
OrangeMooseReads This was my first graphic novel as well a few years ago, I had to read it for a class. I've been slowly, and more recently quickly, getting more into reading them. 7y
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Librarybelle
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When you read these, get ready for your heart to be pulled out and shredded. I read both Maus volumes several times for classes over the years; the Persepolis volumes I read through the library then immediately bought myself copies. #graphic #sizzlinsummerbooks

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luciafonseca
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So curious about this book.

RitaFariaTheBookmark Eu já o li e adorei, espero que gostes! :) 7y
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kendrastephaniekaryn
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Starting this unit with my 10-2 student today! #teachersoflitsy #englishteacher

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