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Reading an 11-year-old‘s diary when she‘s a happy child and then suffering the fates of the Bosnian War is tragic and sad. Pages of the diary were published during the war in 1991-93 when she lived in Sarajevo, and she knew she was being compared to Anne Frank. Her writing is exemplary for her age but she never understood why there was a war and why peace wasn‘t coming. She was both hopeful and sometimes suicidal as friends were killed and ⬇️

Texreader families, friends, and neighbors were displaced. From the introduction we learn her family eventually escapes to Paris and from Wikipedia we learn she went to Oxford and now champions the cause of children suffering through war. Of course an inspiration. Reading about war from a child‘s perspective is eye-opening to say the least. I am glad she left us this legacy. #letterZ #litsyatoz 1mo
Librarybelle I read this when it first came out - she is roughly my age, so it was very moving to read about a war in my lifetime by someone my age living through it. 1mo
Texreader @Librarybelle What an experience for a preteen to have read this book while the war was going on. I can tell you I don‘t think I even knew about the war in the 1990s. I was a newlywed and working two jobs. Life was difficult then so the news took the back burner. 1mo
Librarybelle @Texreader Would you believe I think I picked this up at a Scholastic Book Fair? I will say I don‘t have too many clear memories about that war, other than it was on the nightly news that my parents watched. But, her experience living in an active war zone was so striking and helped connect the odd snatches of info I‘d hear on the TV. 1mo
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This post is for all my #litsylove friends and others I‘ve corresponded with. Zlata has her first pen pal! Isn‘t it wonderful? In the midst of war, the value of a letter. ❤️ @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie I love our penpal group ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ I lived in Harrisburg as a child! 1mo
Texreader @TheBookHippie Me too! And nice little coincidence 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it ❤️❤️ 1mo
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This once middle class family moved a wood stove found in the attic into the kitchen because electricity is out more often than it is on. And this is how they are spending the winter. #letterZ #litsyatoz

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Mimmy is the name of Zlata‘s diary. Cici is her cat. So good that the cat can give an 11-year-old girl peace during war.

#letterZ #Litsyatoz

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It‘s reading time with my baby.

merelybookish The best! 1mo
Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
dabbe 🖤🤩🐾🤩🖤🐾 1mo
Leftcoastzen Yay!😸 1mo
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I‘ve picked this book as my next read. These are the end papers. For #letterZ #litsyatoz

IndoorDame 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau Those are Gorgeous😍😍 1mo
TheBookHippie My daughter‘s favorite book in high school or maybe college ? 😝 (edited) 1mo
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Erin.Elizabeth10
People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks
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“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected it.” We follow a rare book expert who is uncovering the history of an old book. In each chapter, she discovers something in the book, like a hair, an insect wing, a wine stain, etc. In the following chapter you read the backstory of how it got there. 🔽

Erin.Elizabeth10 I had a hard time keeping track of all the stories, and there wasn‘t a strong thing to keep my attention other than, “what‘s the history of this book?” 2mo
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Books from Goodwill. Hardback is $2.99, the rest were $1.99. I won‘t tell you how much I spent at Half Price Books. Photos of those books are to come.

Gissy Lucky girl! 📚🙌❤️ 3mo
TheSpineView Great haul! 3mo
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Bookish.SAM
People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks
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Late to the game on this one, it‘s been on my TBR forever.
I LOVED it!
Brought me back to the ‘Library at Night‘ immersive experience where the Sarajevo Library was one of the featured libraries.
This beautifully highlights the importance of libraries as cultural institutions and the librarians out there that care deeply about their role in protecting these spaces.
❤️📚

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JacintaMCarter
People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks
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#2023Book62
I love the way the writer took the main plot and kept branching off into seemingly unrelated flashbacks and side plots. I knew they would eventually have to come together, but the way everything finally led back into the main plot was incredibly well done.