pickI am so glad this book landed on my radar. I learned so much. Very emotional read. The amount of determination and courage to research the Home Army women fascinated me. A hero. @OutsmartYourShelf #Research
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If I can finish 5 of my current reads, I'll be happy. #TurnthePage @Bookwormjillk Thanks for doing this.
pickI don‘t even know what to say, I loved this book so much. I started out, after the prologue, empathizing with Shiva as a queer woman mourning a beloved Jewish father who died too young of cancer (okay, my dad died almost four years ago, but the pain is still there). But there‘s so much more to this book. Four+ generations of Jewish women‘s silence and stories. Love and laughter. Magic and possession.
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Just finished Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Excellent read.
so-soI am glad I read it, and there were definitely parts of the book I thought were glorious in prose and imagination. But at the end I felt I had finished putting together a piece of furniture, and found myself looking at several screws and bolt or two that were “left over.“ #TOB2025
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pickThis is set in Poland very close to the border of the Czech Republic, and our main protagonist is a woman in her senior years. She hates her name and disregards most others as inappropriate, is massively into astrology, and flies the flag for animal rights. She is generally perceived as a batty old woman.
On the whole, I did like this. It does require more work from the reader than I'd typically give to the genre, but that's not a bad thing.
pickThis novel is example of why libraries are so essential.I found this in the new book section,calling out my name. I‘m uncertain how to review this combination of facts & imaginative storytelling,centered on a young, Catholic, 14 yr old Polish girl,Czeslawz Kwoka.When the author read an obituary in the NYT of the Polish photographer,Wilhelm Brasse,who took 40,000 + photographs of the inmates in Auschwitz, Tuck clipped out 3 of Czeslawz. ⬇️
