What s wonderful book. Brought a wee year to my eye at the end.
What s wonderful book. Brought a wee year to my eye at the end.
A book borrowed from a friend is next. As always reading with the dust jacket on just in case I damage it.
Lots of storms today, so I didn‘t get to go walk, but I did finish All the Broken Places. I liked it. The ending was implausible, but I can accept it. There‘s a lot of talk about Boyne trying to elicit sympathy for Nazis in this and the related book. All I know is this book didn‘t make me feel any for Nazis, but I did understand that Gretel is a complicated character. I don‘t think we are supposed to love her.
I‘ve got a couple of hours left in this book. I like it and am really interested to see how it ends. I also need to pick a new #audiowalk book.
There were a couple of shocking incidents that just happened in this book — one expected and one not. It was such a lovely day today that I had to get out. #audiowalk
I‘m not sure how I feel about Gretel yet, but we‘ll see. I‘m willing to continue with her story in order to learn more. #audiowalk
The tagged book is my new #audiowalk book. I‘d read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas years ago and am aware of the controversy surrounding it. This follow-up to it, about Bruno‘s sister, sounded interesting. I‘m in Birmingham with my daughter for a couple of days. These pictures are from around our hotel.
I can‘t believe the fun is almost over, but here we go!
1. All the Broken Places
2. The House on Hanging Hill Lane
3. Reading and trying to stay awake until midnight 🤣
4. I‘ve never really celebrated Boxing Day but I did hit up the annual Barnes and Noble sale
5. Well here in Florida it was a green Christmas and I was definitely disappointed if not surprised!
#wintergames #SantasBookshELVES
The sequel to Boy in the Striped Pajamas but could be read as a standalone. This book follows Gretel, the daughter of the Nazi commander of Auschwitz as she tries to put her past behind her and make a new life for herself. I was fully invested in this book but I felt like the writing wasn‘t Boyne‘s finest. This book deals with complacency, grief, guilt, culpability and forgiveness.
Now THIS was a wonderfully written story! I was a little worried after reading The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas and finding it kind of juvenile (which, duh, it was supposed to be) that I wouldn‘t love this author‘s writing style but I couldn‘t have been more wrong. It‘s absolutely mesmerizing! Going back and forth in time and telling Gretel‘s story, it deals with themes of complicity, grief, guilt, and the multiple ways we humans can be monsters ⬇️
Exploring themes of guilt, complicity and grief, Boyne‘s follow up to The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is a beautifully written and compelling tale.
Jumping between the past and the present, 91 year old Gretel (the sister of Bruno from TBITSP) finds herself befriending a young boy from a troubled household and reflecting back on the years after the war.
Boyne continues to be one of my favorite authors.
When one of your favorite authors dedicates his book to another of your favorite authors...it's just magic!😍
Very good. Sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Focuses on the sister of the main character in the first novel. Shows how she deals with the consequences of her parents and the society she was brought up in . Emotional and beautifully written I was gripped throughout the book.
#TransworldPublishers
#Penquin
#PenquinRandomHouse
@penguinrandomhouse
I thought I‘d be waiting a lot longer for this hold to come in from the library! 📚
I have not met a John Boyne book I didn‘t like, this was no exception. This book is a sequel to The Boy in The Striped Pajamas, telling the tale of Bruno‘s oldest sister Gretel as she escaped Germany with her mother. It was hard to like Gretel but I learned there is good in her, despite her nazi roots, as the book progressed. I accepted that while I don‘t understand the people, I could appreciate the perspective of this story.
#12booksof2022 my December book. When it‘s not about serial killers it‘s about Nazis… 🫣🥶
#August #12Booksof2022
I spent a lot of August catching up on books from series, but my favourite book has to be the follow up to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It was good to be back in this world and to find out what happened to his family, and especially he is sister after the war.
My favourite series read will have been the latest in the Josephine Tey Series by Nicola Upson, Dear Little Corpses.
A gift from my brother-in-law.
Day 15 #AdventRecommends August Book 1
We waited 16 years for a follow-up to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and it was well worth the wait. This book tells the story of his sister during the rest of the war and after the war. Yet more impactful reading.
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70 pages to go and book due back 10th. Now do I stop and make start on the shining as that‘s due back 10th also and not started yet. Might carry on with broken places on my breaks so can still progress and make start on shining tonight hmmmmm 🤔
Tonight‘s reading only started hour ago and already 5 chapters in
But did you like it? 🤔
(An excerpt from The New Statesman‘s filleting.)
A NEW John Boyne book??? YES PLEASE!!! #JohnBoyne#AllTheBrokenPlaces#WWII#NaziGermany
This is the 6th book finished for #AwesomeAugust.
It is a sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and covers the life of Bruno‘s sister after the war. There are many surprises in the books and an ending I didn‘t see coming until very near it happening.
I feel this one has left me reeling, in a very different way to TBITSP, but still reeling and trying to decide what I think of it all. A review will follow.
#AugustARC @Clwojick
Starting the latest book by John Boyne which is published next month.
A sequel for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas @TrishB
#AugustARC @Clwojick
#AwesomeAugust