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The endpapers depict a scene I know so well. It‘s been too long, Praha!

This has been sitting on my shelf since Christmas, calling to me. Today I answered. Only a few pages in, but already fascinating.

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When your son-in-law gives your daughter a book for Christmas that she already owns, and it ends up under your tree😄

44/52-🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5! This is an outstanding book that document historical events that took place during World War II, as well as sharing Dr Madeline Albright‘s family history. She is a brilliant writer and thinker. Above is the last paragraph of the book and I highly recommend reading it!

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Making great progress on my weekend reading goals! The coffee helps! Happy Saturday!

74% read of this 731 page book! I started it in late April and put it down after 350pages, but today should be the day to finish it! It is a wonderful book about a time in history that is terribly sad, but the stories need to be told and never forgotten.

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Dr. Madeline Albright, former Secretary of State, got a D- in geography in 1st grade!!! She improved to a B. I would say she has improved to an AAAAA+ over the years.

Reading this book makes me sad and angry. It is very informative and I wish more people would explore the atrocities of the past, so we don‘t repeat history - but we are repeating it right next now. The media is not the enemy of the state!

Car‘s still in the shop, didn‘t go to the office, walked to the grocery store for some basics. Now, I hope to read 100 pages of this wonderful book today!

I started reading this book in May and stopped around page 350 of 731 pages. I‘m determined to finish reading this book this month. The stories make me sad and angry, but I am learning a lot. He is a brilliant person!

I am learning a lot from this well-written book, but I was shocked last night when I realized it was 750 pages. When I downloaded it, clearly I did not pay attention. It may take me another month to finish it, but I won‘t give up. Being a slow reader really sucks!

I started reading this book over a month ago and got distracted by 10 other books, so I back here. I am determined to finish reading it this week. Dr. Albright is an amazingly talented historian!!!

Happy Friday!!! Spending the day reading while waiting for doctors appointments. It is a good use of time. Still enjoying this book. I typically avoid books about WWII, but this is so different.

Making progress - 27% read, 21 more chapters and 520 pages to go!!!!

Part I ✅ only 543 more pages to go!! Very well written and I am learning a lot. Secretary Albright is just brilliant!!!!

I am learning a lot more about WWII and it is from a different perspective. So happy the size of the book (750 pages) didn‘t intimidate me.

I typically do not read books about war, but I am finding this one to be very informative and straight forward. I am learning so details about the war that I haven‘t encountered and I want to follow up by reading some biographies. 164 pages done - 750 pages total!

Madeline Albright is gifted in many ways. I selected this book because it is about Prague and I am visiting Prague in November. I am learning so much from each page. Her writing style is perfect for me. Only 600 more pages to go in the 750 page book!!!

Just 1% read of the 750 pages and I can already tell that I am going to enjoy this and learn a lot about Prague and Madeline Albright.

In December 2017, made my first trip to Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore and Cafe in Prague! I loved it and cannot wait to visit again this year. I picked up two books (although I wanted many more) and met another wanderer from the states while browsing the stacks. I have long admired Secretary Albright and cannot wait to read this book!

My bookish purchases yesterday. Off on a new adventure of this beautiful city today!

"Twice in my lifetime, Central Europe has lost and regained its freedom." While this may not be an eyewitness account of WWII, it is a first hand remembrance of "the lessons of the Second World War which have been learned imperfectly." What Albright cannot show us about the war, she describes in vivid detail post WWII from the eyes of a young lady with a lifelong passion studying her homeland.

"Let us never forget why this war began, how this war was fought or what this war was about. History did not end here in these fabled woods. It did not end in with the Nazi surrender or the fall of the Berlin Wall. Each generation is tested. Each generation must choose."

Dear Madeleine - Really hard to take the enemy seriously when you call them the "loof waff." Sounds more like a recipe from Will It Waffle!! Signed - An otherwise happy reader! ?

With August's "nonaggression" pact, German and Soviet troops rushed into Poland each conquering their own portion of the territory. The Poles, with minimal reserves to stop them, were outnumbered resulting in the fourth and final partition in Poland's history cutting a line through the heart of her territory - Germany to the northwest, Soviets to the southeast. The second world war had begun.

"Stalin told his successor Nikita Khrushchev, 'Of course it's all a game to see who can fool whom. I know what Hitler is up to. He thinks he's smarted me, but actually it's I who have tricked him.'"

On signing the non-aggression pact of August 1939

"Old Town had always been filled with markets. New Town, so called because it was not settled until the 14th century, was more residential and greener with ample space for forested groves and parks. Prague's past is written in the statues, synagogue walls and church spires that are visible from everywhere except its darkest and narrowest streets."

A little audio listening, as my annoying migraine is making a reappearance. Madeleine Albright, former ambassador to the UN,first discovered her Jewish identity at the age of 59, when a newspaper reporter broke the story. This is her recounting of her years growing up in Prague, when Hitler came to power. It's fascinating (at times dry) #popsugar ~a book with 4 seasons in the title #LRC13 & #BWB #historicalevent #readharder ~ book about war

Four books on my TBR that are #setineasterneurope. Two memoirs and two novels, some of the stories extend to other parts of the world as well. #toomanybookstoolittletime #photoadaynov16