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The Room on Rue Amlie
The Room on Rue Amlie | Kristin Harmel
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For fans of Kristin Hannahs The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kellys Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and familyby the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Againtells the tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II. When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, she imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter, too. Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital, their sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. After the Jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, Charlotte cant imagine things getting much worse. But then the mass deportations begin, and her life is ripped forever apart. Thomas Clarke joins the British Royal Air Force to protect his country, but when his beloved mother dies in a German bombing during the waning days of the Blitz, he wonders if hes really making a difference. Then he finds himself in Paris, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, and he discovers a new reason to keep fightingand an unexpected road home. When fate brings them together, Ruby, Charlotte, and Thomas must summon the courage to defy the Nazisand to open their own broken heartsas they fight to survive. Rich with historical drama and emotional depth, this is an unforgettable story that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
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Danay
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22 #69 This was another good one Kristin Harmel.

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Enjoying some fisherman‘s chowder and salad after visiting an independent bookstore today!
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Soubhiville Yum! 2y
tpixie @Soubhiville yes! Tanya‘s Soup Kitchen in Wichita, KS has the best soups! and salads and sandwiches. Her chicken curry soup is to die for, she makes a great tomato basil. Today I decided to have the fisherman‘s chowder because I have never seen them sell it before. It was tasty. Unfortunately there‘s only one independent bookstore around me to visit today so I‘ll have to make do and go to Barnes And Noble as well! 2y
Cathythoughts Oh that looks so good 😊 2y
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tpixie @Cathythoughts it was! I have some of her recipe books, maybe I need to make one of her soups tomorrow! 2y
Leftcoastzen Looks so good! 2y
tpixie @Leftcoastzen yes!! Yummy 😋 2y
kspenmoll Looks delicious! 2y
tpixie @kspenmoll their soups are the best 2y
Suet624 Yum! 2y
tpixie @Suet624 it was delicious. It‘s a great restaurant! 2y
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kspenmoll
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#todaysmail #bookmail #litsycardswap #litsylove

My mailbox yield. Love the New Yorker‘s cover this week.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yay!! It made it there safely 💞 2y
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TheHeartlandBookFairy
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I love Kristen Harmel's books but, they can gut you! November's #IllSeeYouInParis book is well researched but at times I felt as though I was being "talked down to". I alternated reading and listening to an audio version. Audio can sometimes bring so much more life to a book & make it seem eveb more real. Ruby is an American married to a Frenchman living in occupied Paris during the war time. Her bravery & courage(cont in comments)

TheHeartlandBookFairy during this terrible and tragic time in history is nearly unthinkable. What she did, what she went through, almost unbelievable! The book opens with a scene protraying an elderly couple in current times and it's not till they return at the end of the book that you come to know who they are. The bulk of the book, which was a little slow going at 1st and possibly didn't need to be as long as what it was, takes place during the war. I found the last 20% of the book the most riveting but the ending itself felt really rushed after the sluggish start. I really enjoyed the historical aspects of this story, learning more about the resistance! As a romance, I felt it left a lot to be desired. If you're looking for a happily ever after ending, prepare yourself for heartbreak. Easily 4 stars for the historical fiction aspect for me. More like 3 stars for the romance.

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TheHeartlandBookFairy
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I'm so sorry, I completely forgot to post this! I was getting ready for a short trip (Not Paris!) & my brain's been a little full 😅 When I started reading this book last night, I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten... forgive me?
I can hardly believe we're nearing the end of our Paris journey! I'm really enjoying this book so far! Chasing Paris is our Dec book.But, I may have a bonus in there... Stay tuned😊 #IllSeeYouInParis challenge

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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I have soooo many books that I found at the thrift store!! I love going there, but I‘ve been resisting the urge because I have so many to read! 📚📚📚 I‘m always excited to find #BOTM books there!

#ThriftStoreFind
#FallTreasures

I‘m a little early with the Halloween decorations, but that‘s ok! 🖤🎃🧛🏻‍♂️🧡🧙🏻

marleed Oh my gosh, I feel you. I get this little thrill when I thrift a botm I had not ordered! 3y
AmyG I love when I find a BOTM edition. 3y
quirkyreader I was at a Little Free Library after seeing the doctor, and there was a BOTM book in it. 3y
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SilversReviews LOVED Kristin‘s book. (edited) 3y
Eggs I love exciting light display any time of year! You are the goddess of thrift store finds🥰🤗 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @AmyG 🙌🏻👊🏻 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @SilversReviews I‘ve heard it‘s really good!! 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs haha thank you ❤️ 3y
SilversReviews @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Oh…it is very good. ENJOY!! 3y
persephone1408 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I collect pumpkins so I'm decorated for Halloween all year!🎃👻 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @persephone1408 that‘s awesome!! 🎃🎃🎃 3y
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FelinesAndFelonies This one is on my TBR List!! 3y
Booknerd222 I‘m really loving it so far! 3y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#France
#FallFinds

🧡🍂🍁🤎🎃

Sleepswithbooks Your photos are always so pretty. Mine are like, “Look at my book against a wall y‘all!” 3y
SilversReviews Beautiful photo. Loved that book. 3y
Eggs HF rocks 📚👏🏻💕❤️👌🏼 3y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Stacypatrice 🤣🤣🤣 no they are not!!! 3y
emz711 🍂🍁🌾🌼🍂🍁🍁🍁🌾🌱🍃 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @emz711 I love gal 🍂🍁 3y
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dana_says
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Enjoying some reading on the beautiful Madeira Beach, FL

starlight97 Welcome to Litsy! 🧡 4y
Eggs Welcome to Litsy 🥳🦋💗 4y
UwannaPublishme Welcome to all the fun on Litsy! 👋🏻🎉📚💜 4y
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Crazeedi Welcome to litsy!! And to #litsylove too! 4y
dana_says Thank you! Everyone is so friendly and welcoming! I love it! 4y
Alora Welcome to Litsy!! So happy you joined us! I love the Litsy community! 💜📖🥰 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Add books to your tbr list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 4y
dana_says @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks omgoodness! I haven‘t figured out how yet! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ 4y
dana_says @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks wait I think I just figured it out! 😂 4y
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Aims42
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars! This was a GREAT read!! I was hooked from page 1. Definitely a historical fiction recommendation for all fans of the genre! ❤️

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I cannot put this book down, it‘s so good! Then I come across the apt & timely message and my heart swooned. I was meant to read this book now, I have no doubt in my mind 🥰

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Aims42
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Picking up Olive Garden for dinner. This was not an original idea 😆 But, I‘m dry, I‘ve got my book, and I packed my patience because if this pandemic has taught me anything it‘s that I‘m not in control 😜

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arattyreads
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Amazing ! Cry worthy

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Loved this one!

Aims42 Oooo have this one on my TBR shelf 👍🏻 4y
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💗 💗Genres: Historical Fiction, War story, Domestic Fiction
Started: March 12th, 2020
Completed: March 16th, 2020
How did you choose the book: The book seemed interesting
Summary: Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine

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MeganAnnabell
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I‘ve been obsessed with WWII books lately. This one isn‘t as good as some of the others I‘ve read but I loved this story.

Follow.my.read I agree with your comment completely! A good read but not as engrossing as some I‘ve read! 4y
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I started this yesterday morning and finished it about 1am this morning. lol I enjoyed this one.

Book 3 for #widehorizonsreadathon @Emilymdxn

Letter H for #litsyAtoZ

AmyK1 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It‘s a good one! 👍🏼 4y
Emilymdxn That‘s such a gorgeous cover! 4y
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1. Tagged. Started it today and I‘m just over half way through.
2. Big Lies in a Small Town
3. Probably The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society around 2 years ago. I don‘t watch a lot of tv or movies.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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My $5 book haul! I‘m definitely keeping the tagged book and Charming Billy. The rest will make an appearance in our Little Free Library in the near future.

Crazeedi Congrats on a great haul! Loved your tagged book too 4y
Cortg @Crazeedi Thanks! I‘m seeing mixed reviews but it‘s on my TBR list and sounds good! 4y
cathipink The Nanny Diaries has been haunting my LFL 🙂 had a copy in there for over a month, took it out to take to the thrift, and someone left a hardback copy 🤣 4y
Cortg @cathipink That‘s funny! Now I‘m curious to see how it does ours! 4y
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Hollie
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Those are some awesome books on that shelf!!! ❤️❤️ 5y
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Eggs
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Beautiful historical fiction set in WW2 in Paris. Ruby Benoit, in her work to smuggle American and British pilots out of France through Spain, had indomitable #spirit and courage. Paris is on my #bucketlist-a place with so much history and art and remembrance
#soulseptember
#selfimprovementseptember

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 Paris is on my bucket list too! 😊 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 5y
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Conpelling story but the clumsy writing style detracted from the story and seemed like it needed a stronger editor. I‘m glad this story is in the world and I‘m happy I read it but in the genre of historical literature, this is is just so-so for me.

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kplovesbooks
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ I wasn't feeling the first half. Second half though... ❤ Still not The Nightingale, but a worthy read for its own sake. (8th book read for 2019) 📷: me for once!!

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kplovesbooks
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Almost halfway through this one. I wasn't really impressed with it at first, but it's getting more interesting now that the two main characters have met. 😊☕

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#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. The Room On Rue Amelie
2. Where The Crawdads Sing
3. Lilac Girls - just came in from my library hold; can't wait to dive in!

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Jerdencon
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1. Saturday
2. Duran Duran
3. Work ☹️and my sons Greek afternoon school show for Greek Independence Day
4. Tagged - was really good
#premondayvibes @pepsicola

Texreader Duran Duran is awesome 5y
Texreader And I recently got the tagged book. Hope it‘s good! 5y
pepsicola Thanks for playing!! 5y
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Jerdencon
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Monday morning blues - don't wanna go to work!
But sneaking in a little reading time before with this one for my IRL book club.

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kplovesbooks
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So excited to start this one soon!!! I hit a great deal on it at Barnes & Noble today, and the story sounds amazing. It's compared to The Nightingale...we'll just have to see about that though!

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CMCurtis77
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My Barnes and noble book haul today!! Thank God my fiancé supports my love of books!!

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Born.A.Reader
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Library sale cart finds! Plus my 4 year old found two for her!

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Bookdiva618
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So far interesting

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Friday night. 😊📖📚🍦

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Hollie
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#newbeginnings #anewchapter
2018 was good to us, and we ended it dressed up in 1940s flair. I‘ve always wanted to wear a fascinator! We look forward to the new beginnings 2019 has to offer us. Happy New Year, littens!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful as always!! Happy New Year Hollie ❤️❤️ I added this book to my #LitsyAtoZ challenge!! Can‘t wait! 5y
TheLibrarian You two look amazing!! 5y
Hollie Thank you @TheLibrarian it was lots of fun! 5y
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Hollie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m excited to see what you think of it ♥️ 5y
Redwritinghood Happy New Year, 5y
vkois88 Gorgeous ❤❤❤ 5y
TiredLibrarian Adorable! 👠🎩😊 5y
Reggie Ya‘ll look so great!!! 5y
Hollie Thank you @reggie happy new year! 5y
Hollie Thank you @vkois88 @TiredLibrarian 😍😘 5y
Hollie Happy New Year @Redwritinghood 5y
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Hollie
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Day 3 of #adventrecommends is this beauty, set in Nazi occupied Paris during WWII. It so reminiscent of The Nightingale in a lot of ways.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ll have to move this one up!! ❤️ 5y
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Photo taken by @eattrainread

Samen zetten zowel Ruby als Charlotte hun gevoel van onmacht om in daden. Soms heb ik het gevoel dat het een beetje te (klap)rooskleurig wordt beschreven, maar dat blijft bij soms. Het is een mooi, triest en spannend verhaal wat je wel door moet blijven lezen.

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Sharpeipup
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It‘s a beautiful day to read at 30,000 feet. #planereads

wanderinglynn Have a great trip! 5y
Bklover Have fun! 5y
AmyG Plane rides are the best reading opportunities. Safe travels! 5y
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Crazeedi
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Just finished. I was going to give up halfway through, but I took a break and read another book. I thought this one was going to be like most war stories, but I was pleasantly surprised when I went back and finished this. It was worth finishing! An American weds a Frenchman and spends the war in Paris helping the resistance. Much more to this story.

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kstadt929
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My fiancé ordered us some new books ???

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What a beautiful WWII story. I loved seeing the story from different perspectives and how each character was feeling. It just made the story so much more real. I also loved how you followed all the characters through that course of the war. Great to see how they changed as individuals throughout the war. Beautiful beautiful book!

#SassyBookworm😏 #HistoricalFiction #WWII

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Love this sooo very much!!!

#SassyBookworm😏 #LateNightThoughts #LateNightQuotes

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I really like the premise of this book, but it was really a love story set in WWII. I think I‘ve just read too many WWII books that have similar plots and this one doesn‘t have the depth that others have. It‘s tragic, but the honest, true parts of the war are inferred not written. Ok, not great.

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What a marvelous book!!

Tears abound at the end.

Have you read it?

Crazeedi No but it's on my list! 6y
mcipher I plan to - I have really enjoyed her other books. 6y
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SilversReviews @mcipher I have to look up her other titles. 6y
tammysue Its on library hold can‘t wait! 6y
SilversReviews @whatshesreadingnow It took a LONG time for mine to come in. I had never read a book by her....thank you, Litsy, for making me aware. :) 6y
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