Welcome to Litsy!

#TBRtemptation post 6! I love this cover! This is the evocative story of one Greek woman's post-WWII story & her nation's struggle. Aliki is one of the last lamenters, & to capture the fading folk art, an American researcher asks to record her laments. She begins with Nazi soldiers executing her father. Their village is torched & massacred, but she escapes with her friends, Takis & Stelios. She relates the ravaged land. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

This one is really good-so many layers. On the surface, it is a story of 3 young adults trying to figure out how to survive during WWII & its aftermath, about war, suffering, struggle, & petty jealousies. But under that is the story of stories repeating themselves, of how we often become shadows within our own stories.

There is a certain hopelessness in these lines that just strikes home as it seems so many of us are struggling to come together to make the world better, but we are thwarted & stymied as time & time again those in power pit us against one another for their own gain...we see this; we know this, but yet we continue to allow the pattern to repeat again & again.

Beautiful & thought-provoking historical fiction with characters you won‘t ever forget. I really loved this book.
My Last Lament takes us back to Greece during WWII & the years following. I will not soon forget this as the characters are so well done here, that their stories will stay with me. This book really surprised me & brought tears to my eyes, along with educating me about Greece‘s history. I received an eARC copy of the book via NetGalley.

Meh- historical fiction accounting for Greece during WWII- great premise but wanted more laments and less details on everything else. ⭐⭐ #2017

I received this through the #FirstToRead program and I need to hurry to get my review in before the publication date. I like to work under a deadline. 😉 I'm glad I was able to get this one because I haven't read much, fiction or nonfiction, related to WWII that's not about America, Britain, or Germany. A story from a different perspective is always welcome.

This is a gorgeously written story of Aliki, her villages' last lamentor. When asked by a scholar to record her laments for posterity and study, she instead begins to tell her own story of love, heartbreaking loss, hunger, resilience and determination. I loved her, and the other characters. I loved how they interacted with one another. For me, this was a five star book.

Heartbreaking and a story that lingers in your system. Set during WWII and the unrest in Greece after the war.

The same can be said of dogs! 🐾🐕

I finished this book a couple of days ago on #Firsttoread and I really enjoyed it even if it left me with a bittersweet feeling in the end. Just like it says in the blurb, it's a real Greek tragedy. The story is set on Greece and it's about an old woman who reflects on her life when she was just a girl during WWII and after the war, how it changed her life and shaped her country.

So like many of you today I also had to look up the word #Bildungsroman to find out what it was. And it turns out my#currentread is precisely that. A coming of age story of a girl in Greece at the end of WWII and how she has to adapt to survive and build a new life amongst the ruins of her country. #feistyfeb

I'm so excited to be reading my first #ARC now. Before Litsy I didn't even now what an ARC was ☺️. #blameitonlitsy

(1) in light of the current political situation, it's never wrong to read about another time when the world was in crisis. (2) I know very little about Greece during World War II. This looks powerful and important. From @BerkleyPub

the dog couldn't be more snuggled in short of crawling inside my pajamas (also I am starting this book next, anyone heard of it?)

#ARC #bookmail
I'm looking forward to reading this!!