My book haul from our trip. Two were from the bookstore we visited and the rest were from the stores inside the various museums we visited. I may have gone overboard. But no regrets 😅
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My book haul from our trip. Two were from the bookstore we visited and the rest were from the stores inside the various museums we visited. I may have gone overboard. But no regrets 😅
pickThis is a really dark, but really good world war 2 book. The Germans are ruthless, and she has to protect France with her comrades and find her mother. She has lovers and has to decide who to spend her life with. Genevieve has quality lovers and family, but the war makes her worry about losing them. She is not weak, but she isn‘t immortal. She is brave, but she also suffers. I loved this book.
This is my adult Autistic son.He knows R.F. Kennedy Jr.‘s appalling,abhorrent views on Autistic people. My husband‘s shared this beautiful letter
from the mother of an Autistic daughter.She says what i cannot put into words-my son is a gift, one that has set my life path on an unexpected trajectory, & I am all the ricer for it.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr-who-th...
pickHans Fallada survived Nazi Germany, wrote a novel based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel in 24 days, and then died before its publication. If that wasn‘t tragic enough, his depiction of the grinding away of morality, loyalty, and self-respect to leave a society immersed in fear and loathing is exceptional.
I‘ve had fun traveling around to see the Friends & Fiction authors! Windsor, CO to see Kristin Harmel, Wheaton College in Illinois to see Patti Callahan Henry, and St Louis to see all 4- including KristyWoodson Harvey and Mary Kate Andrews, along with managing director Meghan Walker and librarian Ron Block! 🩵🩵🩵
“These Olive Trees is far more than a picturebook about a refugee experience. It provides a distinct look into the resilience and culture of the Palestinian people.“ See the full review of this picturebook here: https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xvii-1/8/
pickThis book tells the true story of 5 Munich university students, who set up an underground resistance movement against the Nazis, & their tragic fate.
This was all new to me as although I've read quite a bit about WWII, I'd never heard of the 'White Rose'. The story of their tragically short-lived efforts to establish a resistance movement against the Nazis is an important one, but I felt a bit short-changed with regards to the people themselves.
You are invited to watch me talk about 10 books in my latest booktube episode. They include picture books, audiobooks, fantasy, essays, historical fiction, contemporary literary fiction & the science of wellbeing
https://youtu.be/PQoEGcUxB3M
Reading and drinking my coffee before my 7.5 hour road trip to Windsor, Colorado to see Kristin Harmel at the #ClearviewReads2025 Library Community Reads Event on Saturday evening. Hoping to do a little bookstore browsing in Ft Collins during the day tomorrow for #IndieBookstoreDay
The Book of Lost Names is a beautifully written tribute to quiet heroism. It is a story about the courage to defy, the strength to remember, and the quiet rebellion of a woman with a pen. Eva found a way to remember as well as save displaced children
#FrenchResistence
#ResistenceForgers
