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I finished this one up at the end of August and forgot to post. It was good, but I didn‘t love it. The Summer After the War really worked for me, but neither this one nor Major Pettigrew's Last Stand have lived up to my first experience with Simonson's writing. This was my August #Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

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Our protagonist here is Peggy and she is a bindery girl at the local Press. Peggy lives with her twin sister on a narrow boat surrounded by books. Complete books, damaged books, parts of books and odd pages on every surface.
Peggy has always loved books. She has longed for more, to study, but obligations, class, society and circumstance have held her in her place. When the men are drafted into war, the lives of women begin to change.

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This is the story of two Cree soldiers who travel from Canada to fight in the trenches of WWI. I found the beginning very slow and didn‘t enjoy the stories told from Xavier‘s POV about the war until it got to the end but I did like Niska‘s stories about life in the bush and Xavier‘s childhood.

I think I just done like historical fiction much.

The book is good in the last third and I‘m glad I stuck with it.

#OhCanada @Jess861

The Remembered Soldier, by Anjet Daanje (2019, transl. 2025)

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Premise: A former soldier experiencing severe amnesia and PTSD struggles to recover his memories and life after he is brought home from an asylum by a woman who identifies him as her husband.

Review: This is a stunning, deeply moving literary love story that will reward patient readers. ⬇️

The narrator,telling his grandfather‘s story,is present throughout almost the entire book.The narrative is interspersed with photos of places the narrator visits or masterpieces that influenced his grandfather or that his grandfather painted himself.In the second chapter,the first person narrator is no longer the grandson but it switches into the grandfathers point of view.We follow him into World War I trenches and combat.That makes it difficult

This book broke me. And again. And again. And again. I do get sad while reading books, but it's unusual that I can't read the text anymore because there are tears in my eyes. Constantly. I couldn't read 4 pages without the urge to just break into tears. I didn't want to continue, but I wanted to continue. I also wanted to give it six stars on GoodReads, but I was only allowed to give five. Which is not enough. This book needs more. 1912 forever.