Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna | James McBride, James Macbride

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A beautiful heartbreak. The characters are complex. Even the villains are beloved. The atmosphere is so well portrayed that it isn‘t an exaggeration to say the reader may very well awake from the pages of the novel expecting to hear gunfire and see enemy soldiers creating the mountainous ridge.

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AmyK1

Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in) | James McBride

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Four Buffalo soldiers from the US army‘s 92nd Negro division get separated from their unit in December 1944 and end up in a small Italian village. This was okay-the writing was good and I liked the chapters detailing the history. I didn‘t really like most of the characters and there wasn‘t much of a miracle...

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AmyK1 I did like that it detailed some of the experiences of black soldiers at the time and how they were treated. It‘s not something I‘ve read about before in all the WWII books I‘ve read. (edited) 4y

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y

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EadieB

Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in) | James McBride

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. The tagged book by James McBride. I have also read most of Colson Whitehead's books.

2. I have enjoyed William Krueger‘s Cork O‘Connor series about the Ojibwa tribe in Minnesota.

I also have Louise Erdrich‘s Round House In my TBR pile.

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TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 😊 5y

EadieB @TheSpineView You're welcome! 5y

Twainy 1 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Would Becoming By Michele Obama count?

2 - The Pale-Faced Lie by David Crow & “I Will Fight No More Forever” Chief Joseph & The Nez Perce War by Merrill D Beal (I don‘t think the author is Native American but Chief Joseph‘s speech upon surrendering to General Howard is in there amongst a plethora of well documented facts about the Nez Perce, an old but fascinating book) 5y

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EadieB @Twainy Great answers! I have also read The Nickel Boys and a few other books by Colson Whitehead. 5y

Twainy @EadieB The Underground Railroad & the first one I read was Zone One were good. Any other good ones? 5y

EadieB @Twainy I first meet Colson Whitehead in 2009 when he wrote Sag Harbor and I received an ARC from Barnes and Noble and the publisher. I was a member of a group who had a moderator who would coordinate reads and discussions with the authors. I was very impressed with his book. I would call it somewhat autobiographical. Then I read The Intuitionist, Apex Hides The Hurt and The Colossus of New York. His writing is getting better and better I think. (edited) 5y

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EadieB

Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in) | James McBride

Day 17 - #Miracle #SoulSeptember #MiracleAtStAnna #JamesMcBride

I read and very much enjoyed this story:
Toward the end of WW II, 4 Buffalo Soldiers from the Army‘s Negro 92nd Div. find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. They discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema—in the peasants who shelter them, in the unspoken affection of an orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man.

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Eggs Must read !!! Stacked 5y

EadieB @Eggs 👍 5y

Coleen_Nieto One of my favorites!! 5y

KCofKaysville I mostly liked it too. 4y

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