Flight Portfolio

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I‘m engrossed and have links saved in pages of pages 🤣🤣🤣

Max https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst

Marseille 1930s
Provence
Gare St Charles
What would we do?

It‘s a little of what are you doing now..

This read the slowly daily the fight for light for life for people, against all odds. These folks are YOUNG. And for me the point is for me they are living life along side the pursuit. Reality.

Happy Sunday! I slept in !

IndoorDame Happy Sunday! 6d

Karisa There‘s so much to this book and the people/times it captures. I remember seeing the movie and talking to everyone about it for a while. I couldn‘t believe I‘d never heard their story. Such daring and hope. Needs to be taught more in schools. 6d

Sargar114 There is a lot going on with this book. I think I‘d probably be more engaged reading it vs audio, but I‘m still liking it. The narration is very good. 6d

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DebinHawaii It takes me a while to get through each section but it is pretty fascinating to read. A side of WWII I didn‘t know much about. 6d

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii it takes me longer as well. It‘s so much. But, it is, was and is so much. 🤯 6d

kspenmoll I want to see the movie, but after I finish the book. 6d

mcctrish I am now caught up, this section flew by and I‘m wondering what is going to happen now with Vichy coming and borders closed ( that boat fiasco made me so sad ) 4d

mollyrotondo I would want to leave if this was me. My flight instinct would kick in rather than my fight instinct. Ashamed to say it but if I was in France after what happened in Poland I‘d want to flee. Really loving this book. 4d

Librarybelle I finally finished this week‘s section—I am not giving myself enough time to read this during the week! I am so engrossed in this book. The writing is exquisite, and the constant fear of being arrested and sent to a camp has to be exhausting. 4d

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I would be in so much trouble 😬😵‍💫I think I‘d be like these people fight until I physically was unable but my nerves would be 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 . 4d

TheBookHippie @Librarybelle it‘s so exhausting. I read a bit each day soaking it in. 4d

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So many links saved 🤣😅😳😱👀
I‘m saving this for later putting it here

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513492

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Jaqueline Lamba 🤯

(Frieda Kahlo‘s lover many say)

https://www.weinstein.com/exhibitions/13-jacqueline-lamba-painter/

https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/jacqueline-lamba/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Lamba

Every page strikes me as OMG

IndoorDame Her work is just sublime! 6d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I agree 💯💯💯 6d

AmyG I love seeing all the names! (edited) 6d

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Karisa Another one that I hadn‘t heard of before. Gorgeous artwork! 6d

TheBookHippie @Karisa oh!!! She is FASCINATING. Her art is swoon worthy. 6d

DebinHawaii Her art is amazing! 🖼️ 💚 6d

kspenmoll Just Wow. Love her art. Another unknown to me. 6d

mollyrotondo She looks familiar but I can‘t say I recognize her art. One of the articles said she would destroy a lot of her own work. Imagine how much more we could have in the world if she didn‘t. 4d

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A farewell party
The people around the table 😱😳🤯
Praying mantis
The game
Oy

This lures out the son apparently …
The police captain
The boy is found
Now to save him 😳

Honestly WHEW

IndoorDame I love that there are still French Government officials who are semi publicly/semi covertly on either their side or against the Reich or both 6d

AmyG It‘s always hopeful knowing there are decent people in this world. I hope the young man makes it out. 6d

Karisa The party seemed so over the top. So fitting of the surrealists. 😅 The movie adaptation captures it in a fun way though I don‘t remember the praying mantis making it into that scene—grotesque and I wonder if it really happened. 🫙 6d

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Sargar114 The party scene was fun. Felt like a breakaway from all the tenseness. I was wondering if Fry and Grant were gonna be outed (edited) 6d

vlwelser It's a lot. But I like the pace. 6d

DebinHawaii What a party! The praying mantis display seems pretty over the top! 🫣 6d

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii this is the third time I‘ve read this in a book taking place during this time period!!!! Oy. 6d

kspenmoll The praying mantis was wild- but then they all wanted a party, a release from their tenuous lives. 6d

mollyrotondo @TheBookHippie really? Watching praying mantises copulate is a common scene in WWII books? Why was this activity so trendy? 😂 4d

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo it‘s from like 1920-1950 in artistic crowds it‘s so odd 😅😂😳😱 4d

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Hannah!!! Meaning comes with connection to others- COMMUNITY!!!!
My entire speech daily

(I‘m making my way through all her books this year )

Spoiler-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

Selfish post 🤣 honestly I highly recommend reading her books.

TheBookHippie St Augustine 🤢original sin Eves fault .. RANT- Augustine - who popularized the idea of children being born with original sin — was routinely beaten at school as a child. And that he prayed for god to intervene while his parents laughed at the stripes on his back⬇️ (edited) 6d

TheBookHippie ⬆️ When god (nor any adults) never came to intervene, is it any wonder why he eventually decided that children are born with sin that needs to be corrected / punished as a sign of love? End rant . 6d

IndoorDame I totally appreciate the cliff notes version of Augustine cause I had less than zero idea and was wondering! Apparently he was a super important saint 😂 Arendt I know a little bit from school, but she‘s definitely on my list to read more thoroughly. 6d

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TheBookHippie @IndoorDame 😵‍💫😅🤣 he did more damage to Christianity than any other saint IMO and destroyed women in the Bible or simply left them out of the narrative. 😵‍💫 6d

AmyG I was happy to see Arendt brought up. I, too, need to read more of her work. 6d

Karisa I‘d never heard of Arendt. I‘ll need to rectify that! Her work sounds amazing!St. Augustine 🤮 6d

kspenmoll I have only read her Eichmann in Jerusalem it was long ago so thinking I should reread. Aristotle & views on women covered in our #ReganPenalunaBuddyRead 6d

vlwelser Hannah is an icon. I agree that people should read her. 6d

DebinHawaii I had heard of Arendt but not read any of her work. What do you recommend starting with? 6d

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii it‘s all good but this one was necessary. Especially currently.

The Origins of Totalitarianism

mollyrotondo I can‘t with the whole Eve is the origin of sin crap. And that we shouldn‘t connect with others but only to God? I mean what‘s the point of being here on Earth if we aren‘t meant to try to connect with one another? Love that Arendt argued against a Saint 😂 4d

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo RIGHT?!?! Makes me sick!!! I‘ve been enjoying her writings this year. She‘s complicated but aren‘t we all 😅😂 4d

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Miriam
Who is worth saving?!
What a decision…
She decides to leave…

IndoorDame She‘s not wrong to call him out, but I don‘t like that she waited until she was out the door to do it. 6d

kspenmoll What horrifying decisions to make - yet they had to. The responsibility they felt must have been a burden of stone weighing on them. This whole part of WWII history was unknown to me- I wonder what happened to her? (edited) 6d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame me either. 6d

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TheBookHippie @kspenmoll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Davenport 6d

AmyG I didn‘t know any of this either. Like playing God -deciding who to save. What a burden. (edited) 6d

DebinHawaii I can‘t imagine having that power & responsibility. 6d

mcctrish Miriam did say something earlier didn‘t she ? Or someone did - Fry mentions the list, that‘s what the funding is for 4d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish yes I think she had problems with who was on the list, how can they say that … instead of thinking well we can get this one out for sure. But they did get people out. 4d

mollyrotondo I understand everything Miriam said and did. It‘s hard to say we are only going to help these people because we deem them important. Everyone is important. It‘s a hard thing to live with. But I think she should have staid because saving anyone‘s life with no support from your country‘s government is a big feat. 4d

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo me too. Any life saved is a whole world. 4d

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Mary Jayne has found them a house. The descriptions of her are what I‘ve found in research so far- she was a badass ♥️

I‘m still investigating her grave.
No one seems to know anything
I‘ve left messages several places this week. Hoping for call backs.

https://vimeo.com/234693106 not in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jaorYNlY0
Has subtitles

IndoorDame Thank you for the video! Actually seeing that place it‘s even more than I imagined. — The cognitive dissonance must have been intense. You‘re in paradise. With the best artists and thinkers. But you don‘t have enough of the basic necessities. And you‘re all scared for your lives. And no one knows what the future holds. 6d

kspenmoll Wonderful visual & video. 6d

kspenmoll @IndoorDame That thought/feeling occurred to me but I had no words. Thanks for yours. 🩷 6d

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AmyG Oh thank you. Loved seeing this. I can‘t imagine being any one of these people. So brave. 6d

DebinHawaii The video was incredible—to look upon the Villa & know what happened there… 6d

mcctrish I did wonder who this house belonged to 4d

mollyrotondo I‘m still so confused why her grave is unmarked. I hope you find something out explaining it. Thank you for the videos! 4d

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo apparently it‘s a mystery- I keep digging!!! I keep talking to people who send me to talk to other people. 4d

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Persimmons

https://french-barn.com/blog/food-wine/desserts/persimmon-cranberry-tarte-tatin

Just wanted to say
Homosexuality was punished and just as dangerous as being Jewish
People just don‘t talk about it ..

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gay-men-under-the-nazi-regime

https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2021/02/09/persecution-of-gay-people-in-nazi-...
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TheBookHippie https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/categories-of-prisoners/homosexuals-a-separ... 6d

TheBookHippie https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/... 6d

kspenmoll Yes. And the disabled, & the Roma‘s & everyone else who did not fit Hitler‘s criteria. 6d

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IndoorDame I grew up in a religious Jewish community and have never been able to reconcile the fact that there‘s so much talk of holocaust history and the six million and none of the staggering numbers of other people who were murdered for some aspect of their identity. 6d

kspenmoll Thank you for the articles Christine. I want to throw up. 6d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame my grandma always talked of the Roma and the resistance fighters that are not mentioned. She did tell me once about a lesbian sister of someone who they had to get to the US asap before her family. But as a child I heard her but didn‘t hear her. She looked at the French resistance as godlike heros. Especially the women and how many stories we don‘t know blows my mind. ..in essence it was a SMALL minority that were acceptable to live. 6d

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie such a small minority. It‘s hard to really take in. But I know it‘s important to keep trying to take it in, so thank you for these links, as hard as they are to read. And your grandma is another lady who sounds more and more amazing every time I hear about her! 6d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I miss her everyday . She was loathed for not being quiet about the past and her way of life and views on life. I adored her. I was so very lucky to have her until I was in my 40s. 6d

AmyG I agree…not much mentioning the queer community etc. same is happening in the US….hatred of queer community by the alt-right. 6d

TheBookHippie @AmyG SAME OLD TROUPE. 6d

kspenmoll I am reading about Ernst Rohm, soldier who Hitler originally put in charge of SA to reorganize it- but later had murdered under the guise of treason,when in reality it was for his open homosexuality.

Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

vlwelser All the political prisoners also.... But this is where the pink triangle came from. 6d

TheBookHippie @vlwelser yes so many political prisoners. I remember seeing all the real triangles at the Auschwitz exhibit at the NYC museum of Jewish Heritage .. 6d

vlwelser Of course now I'm thinking of Cabaret. 6d

TheBookHippie @vlwelser I know!!! 6d

DebinHawaii The articles are chilling. Yes, @IndoorDame & @TheBookHippie All the history and individual stories we don‘t know about is just mind blowing. 🤯 😥 6d

mcctrish The Nazis didn‘t like anything outside a tight circle of what Hitler liked and @TheBookHippie I think of the French resistance as super heros - there‘s a quote later in this section about everyone is going to die so I want to live ( regarding the party) and I think it is what the resistance must have said to themselves but adding I want to live and do good or beat those bastards 4d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish EXACTLY!! 4d

mollyrotondo This is a world atrocity that has so many layers of despicableness. And to imagine that there are people in this country that want to resurrect this type of persecution. It‘s all so disgusting. 4d

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Varian meets up with Grant
Is Grant trustworthy -is he holding back
Train ride with bikes
Renewing their relationship
Lev Zilberman artist(fictional)
The bike!!!
The errand boy

Grant & Varian
The struggle
The past
The pull of their relationship

Another level of angst.

kspenmoll At first I was annoyed with this twist in plot but as their relationship progressed I realized Grant & Fry‘s history past & not present added humanity to Fry & rounded out Fry‘s character. I looked up Zilberman- I wanted him to be real- liked his character so much!!! (edited) 6d

AmyG I am curious who they chose-each other or do they go back to their lives. 6d

IndoorDame I didn‘t expect Grant‘s loyalty to be called into question. But now I‘m wondering. Is there more besides getting his partner and his partner‘s son out keeping him in Europe? 6d

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Karisa I am conflicted about Grant and Varian. I want to root for their love story. However, their long-term partners in the US seem like wonderful people, and I don‘t feel like they deserve the duplicity. It‘s all so messy but a good reflection of the times they are living 6d

Sargar114 @Karisa I agree. It also seems like Fry genuinely cares for his wife as well, but humans are quite complicated folks 6d

vlwelser I don't love the way the author is treating this (possibly fictional) relationship. Especially since these characters are in committed relationships with other people. 6d

TheBookHippie @vlwelser it‘s messy. I like that imperfect messy complicated people are the ones who save the people deemed undesirable (but yes the duplicity is 😕) 6d

vlwelser I do appreciate that they're messy. I think it's more that I felt like an intruder. Because real people. And I don't need this much detail about their love lives. I may be getting prudish in my old age. 6d

DebinHawaii @vlwelser I feel you. I feel like too much time is being spent with them in bed when I want more of the details of the rescues & how they got people out. 6d

vlwelser @DebinHawaii 💯 it's like these authors think we need a bit of romance to stay engaged in the story. I don't. I'm more into the intrigue. 6d

Karisa @DebinHawaii Yes! I feel like the film adaptation was much more about the whole rescue group and that approach worked more for me 6d

TheBookHippie @Karisa from what I know it was both and it‘s interesting to see the book and movie and know a bit of the truth and realize that we only know 1/10 of the truth!!! 6d

mollyrotondo I actually love the way this relationship is written within this amazingly important mission. Fry‘s agony just screams off the page. And while he‘s feeling these hopeless feelings for Grant he‘s trying to save people from being sent to concentration camps. And even though Grant and Fry are rekindling this romance they never lose sight of helping people. Going to the next place to find someone takes priority. I find it really well written. 4d

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I agree. It‘s very well done. 4d

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THE NEWSPAPER
OYTOTHEVEY

THAT was dangerous…

Lots of cat and mouse so to speak going on..

Cloak and dagger more appropriate I suppose..

kspenmoll So many close calls- I am in awe of Fry‘s ability to problem solve on the spot. 6d

AmyG I am in awe of all the people in this book who worked to get people out of Europe. Beyond amazing and courageous. 6d

IndoorDame I still can‘t believe they got off so light after that article! What was he thinking! 6d

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Karisa @AmyG Yes! The team was so brave to keep going. How could Feuchtwanger and the Times have been so thoughtless to spill all those identifying details?! I could see wanting to tell your story to garner more support but to not realize they were putting people in more danger 🤦🏻‍♀️ Just shows how detached and unreal it all felt to those across the ocean. 6d

TheBookHippie @Karisa HA the NEW YORK TIMES. They‘ve been complicit in so much for so long. People are just now seeing it. 6d

DebinHawaii @Karisa @IndoorDame So true! 😱 I‘m shocked there wasn‘t more damage done by the article. 6d

AmyG @Karisa Absolutely! Well said about the detachment across the ocean. 6d

mcctrish OMG I was so mad when I read this! Thanks for screwing over every other person who needs to get out 4d

mollyrotondo I was shocked! I couldn‘t believe they wrote all the details of how and where people were escaping. And patting themselves on the back for reporting it. I was appalled. We Americans screw up so much when we act oblivious to the rest of the world. 4d

mollyrotondo I never really understood why Americans were always so ignorant when Europe was at war. Hitchcock‘s Foreign Correspondent pointed this out to me regarding and this book mentions it as well. How Americans really didn‘t believe a war was imminent. Foreign Correspondent showed that the newspapers were just not reporting it which made the sympathy in this country so minuscule for too long. 4d

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Varian gets called in
Is requested back to US
Issued a stern warning
Eleanor Roosevelt is on your side!
He is determined to STAY

Some notables
We can assume all links are or can be spoilers

Hilferding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hilferding

Breitscheid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breitscheid

Mehring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mehring

Walter Benjamin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

TheBookHippie FYI Fry and other founding members of the Emergency Rescue Committee met with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a supporter of the organization. Roosevelt secured emergency visas for several artists and scholars endangered by the Nazis and wrote a letter of introduction that helped Fry establish operations in Marseille. 6d

kspenmoll Eleanor is the BEST. My mom‘s role model! 6d

IndoorDame I feel like I‘m constantly learning new things about Eleanor Roosevelt that make her seem even more kick ass than I previously thought! 6d

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kspenmoll My husband & I are reading Hitler‘s People, by Richard J Evans, which includes Hitler‘s major Nazi officials, lesser officials - Evans has access to newer research -it‘s devastating to read while Fry works so tirelessly to rescue so many. 6d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame @kspenmoll I love her so!!! 6d

AmyG So much history. I am not clicking until I finish the book. 6d

TheBookHippie @AmyG I have that too I don‘t read or look at it unless I know already. 😅 6d

Karisa @kspenmoll @IndoorDame 💯% agree! Badass is right! So ahead of her time. Every time I went DC I had to go see the FDR Memorial to visit her area. She is an inspiration. 6d

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll adding that book to my list! 6d

Sargar114 Agree, love Eleanor Roosevelt! Such an icon! 6d

DebinHawaii Yep, no links until the end for me too & yes, to Eleanor Roosevelt -such an amazing woman! 💙❤️💙 6d

mollyrotondo I‘m reading the links lol Eleanor Roosevelt really was an inspiration. She was not afraid to support people trying to do some good in this world. While reading some of the information in the links it just makes me so disgusted about how people today here in this country are threatening to pass similar acts that gave rise to the Nazi regime. It‘s mind boggling. 4d

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Thanks for the #SaturdayChatterday tag @Eggs !🤗

1. So far, yes! 💛

2. My usual errands & hanging out. Went to the monthly makers market by my house & bought baked goods, & cards & stickers. ((I‘m addicted!)🤦🏻‍♀️

3. I‘m at the coffee shop for fuel☕️& breakfast. Reading the tagged book for #SundayBuddyRead & then working on my cards for #LitSolaceFallCardSwap🍁

4. Work! No Hilo trip this week but I have a conscious leadership session.🍵

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DebinHawaii … 5. Just finished Season 5 of a Dexter rewatch binge which I am enjoying. Otherwise not watching much else, just lots of reading. It‘s taking me time to get through it but I‘m really enjoying the stark beauty of The Vaster Wilds, a carry over for #Naturalitsy last month. (edited) 7d

DebinHawaii Anyone else want to chat about your Saturday? Consider yourself tagged! 🤗 7d

Eggs That looks yummy 😋 6d

AllDebooks @DebinHawaii glad you're enjoying The Vaster Wilds. Her writing warrants time spent on it. X 6d

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#coffeeandbooks #sundaymorningbuddyread #porchlife #birdsong
A quiet start to my day. Variegated sky of baby blue & white scattered swirling clouds. A welcome,soft breeze. I am hearing blue jay & gray catbird & carolina wren song,mingling with occasional music of wind chimes. Just the heaven I need after my work week.

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CoffeeNBooks That sounds like such a lovely morning! 1w

TheBookHippie What a glorious morning!!! 1w

IndoorDame Sounds like heaven! You brought me right there to the porch with you for a second 💙 1w

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kspenmoll @IndoorDame That makes me so happy- you are welcome on my porch anytime! 1w

kspenmoll @CoffeeNBooks @TheBookHippie It was- a perfect antidote to a hectic week 2 of school. 1w

IndoorDame @kspenmoll yay! thank you 🤗 1w

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#whereintheworld @Cupcake12

My current book has me traveling around France and the surrounding countryside quite a bit. Mostly we‘ve been in Marseille, but when I left off we were in Lisbon planning to head back to Marseille by way of Barcelona. I‘m always amazed when I read about crossing European country borders like that. I once briefly lived at the intersection of 3 US states and even commuting through them with ease was such a novelty.

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This silver nautilus cufflink immediately brought to mind the poem,The Chambered Nautilus,by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. which we explored in our poetry unit last year with 11th graders. I think the poem is a nice supplement to Varian‘s musings.#sundaybuddyread

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus

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TheBookHippie Oh how lovely!! Yes! What a beautiful comparison! 2w

IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 2w

Karisa Beautiful! Thank you 😊 1w

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It‘s a beautiful Sunday morning,soft breeze,cumulus cloudy skies interspersed with blue.Of the 3 books,I am catching up on my #sundaybuddyread first.I‘ve been struggling with an unexpected,significant reaction to my Covid(new) vaccine from last Wednesday.The only reactions my son & husband had were typical:soreness at the injection site.But I have had body aches all over,pain cursing through my whole left arm,exhaustion,all preventing sleep,🔽

kspenmoll 🔼all the while starting back at work. So I have been taking it very slowly this weekend, listening to audio books, only reading some print. I feel so much better today- symptoms are mostly eradicated. We all had the vaccines because I am exposed to HS students. Anyway, I have today & tomorrow to rest & recover.🩷 2w

IndoorDame Hope your reaction clears up quickly 🩷 2w

Bookwormjillk Oh no! I‘m glad you got a long weekend at least 🩷 2w

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kspenmoll @IndoorDame @Bookwormjillk Thank you both for your kind well wishes! 2w

dabbe Relax, relax, relax! Feel better soon, m'dear! 🧡🩶🧡 2w

Gissy Wishing you soon recovery🙌❤️Beautiful☕️😍 2w

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Let the woman take charge !

Money. How to get it. The ways to survive.

The sheer tenacity.

Just miracles

To save a life is to save a whole world.

Happy Sunday

I thank ya for being here. I love us.

vlwelser The women are definitely in charge. 2w

Sargar114 Glad I checked…runs to libby and sighs in relief my library has an audio version…here‘s my morning haha 2w

AmyG Leave it to women to get sh** done! Looking forward to reading on. 2w

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IndoorDame One of my favorite proverbs. I love the tenacity here! Can‘t wait to read on! 2w

DebinHawaii A little late to the party today as I read it this afternoon but I am loving it so far! 2w

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii I‘m loving it too!! A couple peeps are behind and waiting for their book or hold to come in. 2w

TheBookHippie @Sargar114 😂😂😂😂😅 2w

BarkingMadRead I will be late to the discussion next week, but then I‘ll catch up! 2w

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead couple peeps that way! 🙃 no worries! 2w

mollyrotondo Loving this book so far! I‘m not able to read it super fast because I keep stopping to look up people and references. But I‘m loving the writing and learning so much about a part of the war that isn‘t focused on so deeply in most novels or nonfiction books I‘ve read. Thank you! Love this group ❤️ 2w

Librarybelle I just caught up! I love the writing—so poetic and rich. I‘m completely mesmerized by it and find myself really slowing down in my reading of it. I like that this is not your typical WWII book—I‘m familiar with the evacuation plans but have rarely seen them in my readings. 2w

TheBookHippie @Librarybelle @mollyrotondo I‘m reading it slowly and intentionally as well. Its writing IS poetic. I‘m also fascinated and outraged and heart sick. 2w

vonnie862 I'm gonna have to skip this one. I'm having a hard time getting into it. 2w

TheBookHippie @vonnie862 no worries. 2w

Karisa I was away for the weekend with my mom and daughter at the coast. Service was spotty but so nice to get out of the heat. I‘m back on track and loving the book too. I‘ve enjoyed reading through your links and discussions. We should watch/discuss the Netflix adaptation (Transatlantic) after done. It‘s fantastic! 1w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I'm enjoying this one so far. I have some work travel next week, so I'm hoping to catch up and get on track. I'm trusting that you'll share links for the main stuff so I can come back in the end and dive into the real-life details and art. 😁 1w

TheBookHippie @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I keep putting links in and you all will have to go back 🤣🤣🤣👀 1w

mcctrish I am caught to the first week, now heading to a concert and tomorrow I will tackle the second week‘s chunk then I can be on track 👏🏻👏🏻 6d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🙂🙃🙂 6d

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Manns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golo_Mann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Mann

People did not listen then EITHER.
Honest to GOODNESS 🤦🏻‍♀️

Dangerous game of cat and mouse

Aha looking for a son
Grants friends Gregor Katznelson
Genius son..
Then he hears Varian is rescuing people ..
Assets and liabilities ..

A train a hill safety 😱I was holding my breath!

vlwelser I think because I know about the Manns this was less of a cliffhanger for me. 2w

AmyG So many people didn‘t listen. My husband‘s grandfather got his family out of Germany. So many in the extended family thought he was nuts. They just didn‘t listen. They all died. 2w

IndoorDame I was terrified when they had their papers confiscated for the night! 2w

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kspenmoll @vlwelser I too knew the Mann‘s got out. 2w

DebinHawaii Such tense scenes with their papers! 2w

BarkingMadRead This was so stressful, I didn‘t think it could possibly end well 2w

mollyrotondo When their papers were taken I was like this is it! It‘s over! But thank goodness there was another way out. It was a tense scene in this section. 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I was nervous for them all, but also, given that it's the first big escape of the book, I was hopeful all went well. Crisis averted. This time. 1w

mcctrish I was thinking when they left their luggage at the station what‘s stopping anyone from rifling through it all?! But as @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick said it‘s the first big escape that we are part of so it must work out 6d

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EE CUMMINGS I mean comeon swoon…♥️♥️♥️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

vlwelser Oh. Good eye. I missed this. Must be the capital letters 2w

IndoorDame I‘m SOOOO in love with this poem! But for whatever reason I found the way it was structured on the page really hard to parse so if it helps anyone and you can access Spotify links this woman with a poetry podcast who discovered the poem in our book reads it aloud and really made it come to life for me https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uS6ju6bq5TNYxef1xk7At?si=XipddM_vRz2JlWlqu4fK7... 2w

kspenmoll I just adored this!!!! Thanks @IndoorDame (edited) 2w

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TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I have it memorised and duh should have linked it! Thanks for the link!! 2w

DebinHawaii @IndoorDame What a great find/link! Thank you! 💜 2w

mollyrotondo I love all of the literary references in this book! The Finnegan‘s Wake line had me searching the meaning for a good half hour 😆 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @IndoorDame Thank you! The way poems are written is a huge stumbling block for me at times, so this was helpful. 1w

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Bill Freier cartoonist- that‘s so smart!!!
Fake passports
Oy

Spoiler https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1139055

AmyG Everyone and anyone seems to have “chipped in” where they could. Amazing. 2w

IndoorDame It‘s brilliant! And they‘re right in the middle of the art community anyway, so it actually makes perfect sense. 2w

kspenmoll What I love about this book so far is that there were so many people helping resist the Nazis in varying areas with talents necessary for all the intricate planning that I was so unaware of. 2w

DebinHawaii OK, another link to save for after. 😉 I am loving how people are coming together to help. 2w

mollyrotondo I also love that this book points out all these famous people in different areas of the art world who helped save people. I did continue to read some of the spoiler lol when it comes to the real historical figures in this type of historical tragedy I want to know what happened 😮‍💨 2w

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Mary Jayne Gold MY GIRL!!!!
Money
Tenacity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jayne_Gold

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42980989/mary_jayne-gold

Mary is buried in my town no grave marker
This is my field trip this week and our mission to find out why!

vlwelser She's pretty fierce so far. 2w

AmyG Both of our towns have connections to this book. (edited) 2w

IndoorDame Let us know what you learn on your field trip!!! 2w

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IndoorDame It really gives a sense of the times that Varian needs so many allies and contacts and connections helping him to pull this off, but is terrified to trust any of those people even after he‘s already let them in far enough to burn him if they turn out not to be trustworthy. 2w

kspenmoll No gravestone? Wonder…if she would have rather been buried in France but left no instructions as to her wishes. Just a thought (edited) 2w

DebinHawaii Interesting! Can‘t wait to see what you uncover! 2w

BarkingMadRead She is such a badass, I can‘t wait to hear why there‘s no gravestone 2w

mollyrotondo Yeah I don‘t understand why there isn‘t a gravestone. I understand she had no children and died in France. But why move her to Michigan and not give her a gravestone? 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Interesting! I'm curious to see what you come up with. I did see that Fry has a street named after him in Ridgewood, NJ. I will try to get a picture of the sign when I get back from my trip to MA next week. (It's only a sign, but I'm happy to do my part!) 1w

TheBookHippie @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick oh fun!!!! 1w

mcctrish I‘m curious what you find out about her grave, she‘s awesome and beautiful 6d

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Varian Fry‘s sexuality was not discussed in his lifetime publicly that I know of. However he did I know give depositions to the Kinseys. I didn‘t try to look into it too far. Will leave that until end of book.

vlwelser We'll see where the author leads us with this. 2w

AmyG I am just loving this book and the characters. All so fascinating. Lots of depth and history. 2w

IndoorDame So far I feel like we‘re getting a well done glimpse into a quiet kind of public that isn‘t as common in the queer world today, where the sexuality of the gay characters isn‘t a closely guarded secret, but also isn‘t talked about, so those “in the know” know, and anyone who just doesn‘t notice or doesn‘t approve can remain oblivious or at least pretend to. 2w

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DebinHawaii @AmyG Me too-it‘s so interesting! 2w

mollyrotondo I‘m loving the character of Fry that this author is giving us. A very real person to admire in his purpose in life but also real emotionally. He has a wife who he does love but also has this emotional romantic pull to Grant which for the story helps keep the character of Fry getting pulled to stay in such a dangerous situation in order to help his old love. I‘m liking it all so far. 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I suspected a sexual history between Grant and Fry before it was confirmed. Great writing to hint to it without being tawdry. 1w

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Secretary Lena
Oppenheimer - same name?! Didn‘t get into it yet
Albert Hirschman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_O._Hirschman
Miss Miriam Davenport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Davenport

Rubasky artist
Picking names …

What an office
What a responsibility
Just wow

vlwelser I keep looking these people up on google. I love when that happens. 2w

AmyG So much saved. And so much most likely lost that we will never know of. Whenever I read of WWIi….any if it, all it‘s different facets, I find it just mind boggling. 2w

IndoorDame It‘s an immense responsibility. I know war throws all the rules out the window, but his character is a 32 year old writer. I just keep comparing this life with the kinds of responsibility we‘d trust a writer in NY in their early 30s with today… 🤯 2w

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TheBookHippie @IndoorDame most of the resistance was teenagers and female. 2w

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie in France or across Europe? 2w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame across Europe especially France and The Netherlands 🤯🤯🤯 2w

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie amazing! I didn‘t know. That‘s so inspiring! 2w

DebinHawaii Some amazing people under such pressure! 2w

mollyrotondo The amount of people working to fight and stop fascism makes me so much sadder to know that fascism spread and took over the way it did. So many don‘t want it and know it‘s evil power but it still takes over and then takes the strength of everyone to bring it down. Just makes me fearful for our circumstances today. 2w

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo RIGHT?!?! Ugh. 2w

mollyrotondo @TheBookHippie we let history repeat itself too often even when there is little distance from the last time it all happened. 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick These folks are resourceful! I'm kind of in awe at how connected they are considering their circumstances. I'll have to come back to the links later. I don't want to spoil myself if someone dies during the thick of our adventure. 1w

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A time before and a moment that changes it all -
Lincoln Kirstein - Grant appears
Better to sacrifice the Liberal Democrat‘s of Europe than offend the fascists…
I thought we could be of use to one another
The history WAS the homework- Varian
“Let us live, since we must die”
Elliot Schiffman Grant-Skiff Grant
And so Varian stays

Just WOW

vlwelser Grant is super interesting. Didn't expect him to be quite so diverse. The father is what actually surprised me. I kept thinking he should get his fanny the heck out of Europe. 2w

AmyG That he is biracial and Jewish. And gay. Yes @vlwelser he should but -not. 2w

IndoorDame @AmyG @vlwelser Yes, it‘s really hard reading this looking back, knowing that legit American papers won‘t be protection for long there. Logically they all aught to get out of Europe. Grant especially. It‘s clearly not safe. But the fact that people were willing to put their own lives on the line is what saved as many people as did manage to survive. And I have so much gratitude 🙏 2w

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kspenmoll All of this is an overwhelming reminder of how an individual can make a difference in a sea of evil. 2w

DebinHawaii @kspenmoll 💯 such a great point! 2w

mollyrotondo @IndoorDame yeah at this point in the story American papers were not being given out easily and the papers you did have weren‘t necessarily going to get you out. So scary and yet people continued to do the right thing and help. Grant had just as much to fear as Katznelson and yet he‘s going to stay behind to find his partner‘s son. Incredible. 2w

mcctrish I loved when Varian said the history was the homework! I spend a lot of time talking to my books @IndoorDame hindsight says no papers will help if the bad guys decide it‘s so 6d

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200 endangered artist- just boggles the mind

So so so many.

vlwelser 💔 2w

IndoorDame It‘s a really good way to conceptualize how much was lost. If those were just the famous names they could think up from overseas, then zooming out how much art, how much life, how much family history… 2w

AmyG It‘s so hard, at times, to wrap ones head around. 2w

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DebinHawaii It‘s so overwhelming to think about all that was lost. 2w

mollyrotondo So much was affected. Loss of life does lead to loss of everything else in our society. 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I can't say I recognized all of the people mentioned, but I did pause a moment to acknowledge them. Without these heroes, putting their own lives in the line to fight back and save people, would I recognize their names today if they hadn't escaped. I'm curious to read on and see if those I recognize are because they were rescued. 1w

mcctrish Censorship 💔 and the people who showed up and were just people and Varian couldn‘t help them 6d

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Vichy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France

French Resistance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance

Spoiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rescue_Committee

https://www.rescue.org/page/history-international-rescue-committee

The proportion of French people who participated in organized resistance has been estimated at from one to three percent of the total population

vlwelser It's hard to tell how many participated since they all refused to talk about the war later. Both sides. 2w

IndoorDame @vlwelser it‘s heartbreaking how much fear and confusion still exists 2w

vlwelser @IndoorDame we lost a lot. I think because they didn't feel like they could trust anyone even after it was over. Because this was the 2nd time they went through it. Obviously this was likely worse than the first round. But what proof was there that round 3 might not be even worse? 2w

mollyrotondo I just imagine this period as a time when there was nothing else to do but fight. I admire the resistance fighters since their own leaders basically deserted them 2w

mcctrish We went to the Resistance museum in Lyon many years ago, the resistance used a labyrinth of alleyways the silk makers employed in all the steps of creating silk and printing it to move people and documents 6d

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Varian Fry

Links contains spoilers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Fry

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/varian-fry

vlwelser He's also quite interesting so far. Amazing that he's a real person. 2w

IndoorDame Good to know, I was wondering if he was a real person! Saving these links for later. I‘m totally caught up in the story and trying not to do too much research until after even though I‘m itching to look up absolutely everything 🙃 2w

AmyG Ha @IndoorDame …same. I want to read first…not know anything yet. 2w

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DebinHawaii Yep, holding off until the end to go back & review the history! 🫣 2w

BarkingMadRead Ohhhhhh I wondered if he was real! I deliberately didn‘t check. I‘ll come back to the links later 2w

mollyrotondo I read a little bit without spoiling too much lol he grew up near where I live in New Jersey! I feel all choked up to read the Wikipedia page about how he was disturbed by what he saw happening in Europe and did something about it. Really amazing to read in the book but knowing the true details makes it more emotional. The world makes us wonder if there are any good people and these true stories help bring hope. 2w

mcctrish @mollyrotondo the bad people seem so loud compared to the good ones, it‘s hard to see them 😢 6d

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Marc Chagall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgHErPUN1s

https://www.marcchagall.net/

One of my absolute favorite artist 🎨🖼️

vlwelser He's at the top of my list also. And his life was so interesting. And tragic. 🤐 but most of that happened later than this story. 2w

TheBookHippie @vlwelser Yes. I just visited his windows yesterday. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109439/america-windows (edited) 2w

vlwelser I love that museum. He did a lot of those windows. I need to make a Chagall bucket list and go look at them all. In France. 2w

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TheBookHippie @vlwelser yes most definitely!! 2w

IndoorDame Oh, how wonderful! I‘ve always wanted to see the windows in person! They were some of the first pieces of art I fell in love with as a little child, and I‘ve only become more enthralled with him over the years. 2w

AmyG A print of one if his paintings sat over the couch in my childhood home. He was always a favorite. We got to see his work in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Gorgeous. (edited) 2w

kspenmoll Thank you- the video you posted was wonderful! 2w

DebinHawaii Chagall is a favorite of mine too. So cool you got to see his windows on your trip. 💙 2w

mollyrotondo I recognized his work when I looked him up. So interesting that he did not want to leave but as an artist he wanted to stay as a witness. When memorializing history becomes more important than the artist‘s life. Terrible. But it‘s my understanding he did eventually escape. 2w

mcctrish Last summer in Nice we didn‘t make it to the Chagall museum 😢 but it‘s a strong incentive to go back because I do love his art. It‘s also so hard not to look back with hindsight - the Nazi‘s did not act like human beings 6d

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I fell behind in my reading this week (and in basically every other aspect of life 🙊) so I‘m catching up on some #sundaybuddyread chapters with my tea instead of my usual morning poetry. I‘m loving our book so far!!! But I think it‘s terrifically unfair of the universe not to oblige me with sunny skies and fresh figs while I read this 😔🙃

Sparklemn That mug is everything! 💙 2w

IndoorDame @Sparklemn it‘s my favorite 💙🦚 2w

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My stack for September is very mystery heavy. I‘m reading cozies for #cozyconsouth in October, and I‘m trying to read one booo for each author that will be there. I‘m also attending a Nancy Drew book con, so in addition to the #nancydrewbr read, I have the books that the event is based on (we are meeting up in SleepyHollow!) #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

kspenmoll Ambitious!!! Love it! 2w

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I've been on a mystery binge myself lately. 2w

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Hosting IRL Book Club tonight at The Piano Inn and Café in downtown Port Perry!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sounds fun! 2w

PurpleyPumpkin Have a great time! 2w

AmyG Sounds awesome. I just started this one for the Sunday Buddy Read. Hope you liked it (ha, if not don‘t tell me). Have fun! 2w

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TheKidUpstairs @AmyG it's a good one to read with a group, lots to discuss! 2w

TheKidUpstairs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks it was! We always have a great group, great ideas and discussion! 2w

TheKidUpstairs @PurpleyPumpkin Thank you! Nothing is more fun than getting paid to talk about books with great people! 2w

Chelsea.Poole Looks like plenty of notes you‘ve taken in the book. Hope the discussion was lively 😊 2w

TheKidUpstairs @Chelsea.Poole I take a ridiculous amount of notes when I'm hosting! It's a great group, the discussions are always wonderful. This month we're reading

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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September here we come!

All welcome !!!

AmyG Yay!!!, 3w

Librarybelle I‘m ready! 3w

Read4life I was able to get this one so I‘m ready. Glad to be back with this group 💙 3w

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TheBookHippie @Read4life yay! 3w

vonnie862 I have my copy! 3w

DebinHawaii Got my Kindle copy & I‘m ready to go! 🤗 3w

vlwelser Chagall is on my fav list so I'm ready.... 3w

mcctrish I am still waiting for my book 😢 I will get caught up some day 2w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish OH NO!!! 2w

mcctrish @TheBookHippie I got a good price on a paper back which is taking longer to get here than instant kindle delivery 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2w

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original post: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2766117
Open to everyone

mcctrish I‘m getting my hands on it 4w

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UP NEXT #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD 📗 SEPTEMBER

All welcome 💚📗

vonnie862 I have a copy so I'll join! 4w

Librarybelle Looking forward to it! 4w

Liz_M @LitsyEvents 4w

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TheBookHippie @Librarybelle yay, me too! 4w

TheBookHippie @vonnie862 YAY! 4w

kspenmoll Can‘t wait! 4w

DebinHawaii Looking forward to this one too! 🤗 4w

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii me too! 4w

julieclair Looking forward to it! 4w

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Everyone Welcome 📗💚📗

AmyG I am really looking forward to this one. 1mo

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SEPTEMBER 💚📗🛩️🚢 #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD

Everyone welcome 💚📗💚

📚2024📚 https://bookhippie.com/index.php/2023/10/01/2024-sunday-buddy-read/

This is based on truth, there is a Netflix also based on this truth: Transatlantic. There is part of this story in my hometown. 💚📗💚

IndoorDame That‘s in my Netflix queue! I‘ll have to save it for after the book 💚 1mo

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I‘m excited about our September #SundayBuddyRead which is #BasedOnTrueStory about American journalist Varian Fry‘s founding of the Emergency Rescue Committee, a volunteer-run network that helped remove art & persecuted Jewish artists, writers, and thinkers out of Nazi-occupied France during the Holocaust. There‘s a Netflix program based on it too.

TheBookHippie, Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

TheBookHippie I‘m excited!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚 1mo

Eggs Sounds compelling 1mo

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I read this one for an IRL book club that I host at a local inn and cafe. For a book club, I think it was a great selection as it gives a lot to talk about in terms of history, craft, and moral dilemma. But I do think it could have been edited down. There were some parts that got a bit bogged down and overwritten, I think the story could have been effectively told in a tighter way. But overall a good read, and I look forward to discussing it!

TheBookHippie This is our September book for Sunday Buddy Read 2mo

TheKidUpstairs @TheBookHippie it's a good one to read with a group! I hope you like it. 2mo

TheBookHippie @TheKidUpstairs I assumed the same that it was a good group read. 2mo

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Thanks for catching this for us @Deblovestoread !

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📘 https://a.co/d/0XPbhh4

TheBookHippie @AmyG @DebinHawaii 6mo

Read4life Thank you, @Deblovestoread & @TheBookHippie 💙 I picked up my copy. 🤓 6mo

Hooked_on_books I really liked this book. I think it‘s a great choice for book club—lots to chew on! 6mo

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TheBookHippie @Hooked_on_books I know the true story very well. So I‘m interested to read this. Mary Jayne Gold family is from here we have places named after her and the family and she is buried here. 6mo

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I am now ready for the next 6 months! 6mo

Hooked_on_books That‘s a cool connection! 6mo

TheBookHippie @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 6mo

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Our September book is a kindle deal today.

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So seriously considering this long read on my bookshelf for a 5 Sunday month next year as the movie adaptation on Netflix was such a good watch-
The book is still offered on BOTM

Thoughts #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD PEEPS?
Anyone interested? 👀

AmyG I have this, haven‘t read it yet, hear good things…and would love to read it. 1y

charl08 Well, you've convinced me: and my library system has a copy available on request.👍 1y

TheBookHippie @AmyG now to look which month in 2024 has 5 Sundays 👀 1y

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Karisa I‘m in! I watched the Netflix series not knowing it was a book-based until after. Loved the series! 1y

TheBookHippie @Karisa I‘m thinking it‘s a yes. We do okay as long as we have 5 Sundays! 1y

AmyG @Karisa I have heard it‘s a wonderful series from a few people! Ha…I can‘t watch until I have read the book. 1y

JamieArc Ditto to what @AmyG said 1y

TheBookHippie @JamieArc There‘s enough of us! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 1y

marleed I absolutely loved this book and went into not knowing a thing about it. I didn‘t even realize the IRL life story until I was almost done so there was a google rabbit hole experience, as well! 1y

TheBookHippie @marleed I knew the IRL didn‘t know the book and movie 🙃so now I must read book! (edited) 1y

marleed @TheBookHippie ohh, I‘m impressed and envious you knew the IRL. I‘m forever humbled by the stories of long (or not so long) ago IRL people I discover through books. 1y

TheBookHippie @marleed they saved Chagall amongst many other literary folk and artist. It was well known in my grandmas circle that a woman did the bulk of the work and never really got credit my grandma told me. I so wish she was alive to tell her it was a movie and book and that people are learning who Mary Jayne Gold was. 1y

TheBookHippie @marleed I didn‘t connect it all either until I saw it on Netflix 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1y

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Hooked_on_books The book is really good! It‘s long, but didn‘t feel that way to me while reading and in fact prompted me to want to read more from her. It‘s really well crafted. 1y

TheBookHippie @Hooked_on_books oh that‘s good to know!!! 1y

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Karisa

Flight Portfolio | Julie Orringer

Adaptation recommendation! This Netflix limited series based on the book tagged—it‘s so good! It follows a real resistance group in Marseille in 1940 that was able to get artists such as Marc Chagall to safety. It puts people of color, women, and gay men back in to capture this real story more fully. I have some new heroes now in Mary Jayne Gold, Varian Fry, and Peggy Guggenheim. It‘s also filmed in Marseille and beautiful.

AmyG I still need to read the book! Glad to know this is good. 1y

mrsmarch I started watching the first episode right before school break week so I've been in a necessary break while the kids are home 😂 I'll get back to it (and folding my laundry) soon! 1y

JamieArc I have this one sitting on my bookshelf waiting for me. A good reminder to get to it…and I love Marseille. 1y

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Prairiegirl_reading @marleed did you know about this? I know you liked this book. (I put it in my tbr because of your review) 1y

Cinfhen I loved the book!!! Fascinating story 1y

Jas16 I had no idea there was an adaptation! 1y

Karisa @Jas16 I didn‘t realize the series was an adaptation until I watched their “the making of” episode after. Now I need to read the book. 😊 1y

marleed Omg - You didn‘t realize there was an adaptation. This was a 5* read for me! 1y

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marleed

The Flight Portfolio: A novel | Julie Orringer

I didn‘t realize until late last night I had a new grid - forever to be known by me as my Covid quarantine grid. Lucky for me the tagged chunkster was my favorite of the grid vs either of the quick novellas!

5* = Loved It, want to shout out loud about this book! I do/will own/keep a physical copy. A+
4*= I liked it, would love to discuss. Solid B
3*=Meh, no need to discuss. Average C
2*=Nope D
1*=DNF F

Cinfhen I REALLY LOVED Flight Portfolio too!!! Did u ever read her first novel - so good

The Invisible Bridge

Cinfhen I‘m looking forward to reading

Sparring Partners

marleed @Cinfhen Oh thanks for the recommendation. I just keep thinking about that book so I‘d like to read more from her! Oh, I really liked Sparring Partners. I‘d recommend reading each short story in between other books so you can more fully appreciate the 3 stories. I read them back to back and liked stories 1&2 most. I think I would have appreciated story 3 more with a break in between. 2y

MyNamesParadise Glad the It girl is good! I‘m reading it now! 2y

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marleed

The Flight Portfolio: A novel | Julie Orringer

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This was the title I randomly selected from my extensive stack of chunksters. Gaah, I loved this. Somehow it just worked for me that this was part WWII history of IRL war heroes saving 1930s artists (and more) from Nazis and part Bohemian fiction of men who love men and what that meant at the time. I spent all of last night down the rabbit hole of Varian Fry, Mary Jayne Gold (great oral history taped in 1993), Miriam Davenport, and more.

Prairiegirl_reading Sounds fascinating! Stacking! 2y

marleed @Prairiegirl_reading I thought this was a beautiful story. I never heard of Varian Fry - among the first American to be named Righteous Among the Nations by Israel. Then I stumbled upon 5 videos capturing the oral history of the then elderly Mary Jayne Gold - fascinating because she displayed how life keeps happening in the midst of heroic efforts. 2y

kspenmoll Great review. I have this; now maybe I should read it! 2y

Prairiegirl_reading @marleed I love a book that gets me googling. 😄 2y

marleed @kspenmoll I had this for a while too, and I‘m so glad it won my chunkster draw! It‘s a different story but gave me feels like the tagged which I also loved. @Prairiegirl_reading Google and YouTube were my whole of last night!

The Heart's Invisible Furies

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Anna40

Flight Portfolio | Julie Orringer

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Varian Frye formed the Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseille with the aim of finding as many Jewish and Anti-Nazi intellectuals, artists and writers as they could and helping them to escape from Europe. And there is more to it. Orringer also writes about Frye‘s homosexuality and weaves a fictional love story into the main plot. Her writing is outstanding -a joy to have discovered her!

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Hooked_on_books

The Flight Portfolio: A novel | Julie Orringer

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Varian goes to France in 1940 to work toward rescuing Jewish artists, allowing their escape from the continent. He‘s then approached by Elliott, the one who got away, to see about saving a friend‘s son. This is great historical fiction with a lovely M/M love story threaded through. The size and slow pace of this book are a bit daunting, but it‘s well worth it.

#bookspin from June

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