#BookReport
Finally finished Kristen Lavransdatter! It was slow going as my attention span this year has mostly been that of a gnat but I enjoyed it. Also enjoyed Josephine Baker‘s memoir. What an incredibly fascinating woman!
The format of What We Knew was interesting. The individual sections held my interest more than the rest but that is me not the book.
Caught up on buddy reads except the Picasso which I will read today.
pickVery interesting book. I thought the author did an excellent job in portraying his father's experiences, as well as the different dynamics in his family. The graphic novel format also helped with the portrayal. Definitely worth reading.
So, I switched one of my wild cards with this month‘s pick “The Ravine” because I didn‘t want to have to decide between it and my other pick from this month (Pageboy) immediately. It may still come to that, but I‘ll have had more time to process.
#WendyLower #TheRavine #ElliotPage #Pageboy #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket #nonfiction
I read a lot this month. Anything to avoid the 24/7 sports on TV.
#OctoberWrapUp #StoryGraph #WendyLower #TheRavine
pickThis is a low pick. I wanted to like it more than I did. It‘s the story of Anne Frank and her family before they went into hiding. The problem I think is in the writing — it keeps us at an emotional distance from Anne, so we never really connect to her. Maybe because it‘s children‘s fiction? I didn‘t really know that until I looked at the subject headings before I returned it.
pickA truly beautiful book. This is a stunningly wonderful work of scholarship. The photograph around which the book is centred is utterly heartbreaking, and a real human look into what is often forgotten amongst the unfathomable horror of the holocaust. A breathtaking look at what history scholarship can and should be.
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I‘m really enjoying this so far. Such wonderful and vital historical work done with this book.
#WenddyLower #TheRavine #audiobook #WOMENALSOKNOWHISTORY
Today‘s “it‘s probably going to rain, so I might as well stay inside and read” book.
pickHistorical fiction of Anne Frank‘s life in Amsterdam to the day they went into hiding. Short and great on audio I was near tears many times. It is impossible not to recognize the parallels from the dehumanizing of Jews at the hands of the Nazi regime to what is happening today in the US at the hands of our current administration.
“But I really don‘t trust them [Germans]….
