Y‘all! This book though. It‘s making me feel so many things. 😭 #allthefeels #Night #ElieWiesel
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Y‘all! This book though. It‘s making me feel so many things. 😭 #allthefeels #Night #ElieWiesel
Here is a list of memoirs. (Technically dawn and day aren't memoirs but I added them as they are part of a trilogy). Part 1
@TheBookAddict
At 144 pages, this is not a long book but it is more important to humankind than many many other books. Everyone should read it—never forget 😓
#under250pages
#gratefulreads
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620
pick#2 I‘m not quite done this book but I really loved it! I loved the emotion and feelings attached! The story is hard but really good. You will definitely like this book if you like war stories and stories about people‘s hardships. The flow of the story was hard at times but once it was better again the story was really amazing!
pickSomehow I never read this one. I now did. In one breath. To imagine that what Wiesel went through happened here, in Europe, just 75 years ago! It‘s incredible and good to always be reminded of. This can never happen again and yet, when I read the news and realize that I know just a fraction of what is happening right now in Syria, in Central Africa, in Haiti, to name just a few. It‘s incomprehensible what people are able to do to one another 💔
Characterizing the true terror of surviving a concentration camp as a teenager, Mr. Wiesel brings readers into his own story of a long #darknight
#spooktober
#RedRoseSeptember
(Day 9 - #NeverForget)
*No collage—just a memoirist & his book. I spent about 90% of my doctoral study on this subject, and the constant refrain is “Never Forget.” ‘Nuff said, imho.
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
Aaandd that‘s a wrap for #Booked2019 #Spring, let‘s never leave a season so late again 😂
Not a “light” season but a completed one. Ness (#CliFi ) was the weirdest by far, Metal (#FeaturesaMusician ) the most intellectually interesting. Mai Tai (#FoodorBeverageonCover) was the weakest. Talking to my Country (#IndigenousAuthor) dovetailed into I am a Troll (#SocialMediaFocus) and both, terrifyingly seemed to run into Night (#NightOrientedTitle).
My #booked2019 Spring titles! Loved (almost) all of them.
1️⃣NIGHT (night oriented title)
2️⃣GOLD FAME CITRUS (cliff)
3️⃣FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD (indigenous author)
4️⃣HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL (musician)
5️⃣TELL ME NO LIES (social media focus)
6️⃣SWEETBITTER (food/drink on cover)
pickSome levity (she would *not* be moved 🤦🏻♀️).
For all my study, I had not read this. The notion terrified me but, somehow, Night is eminently readable. It‘s horrific but particularly noting the foreword, finishing it feels like an act of rebellion against that evil and a tribute to all those lost to it.
At our war memorials, Australia‘s epithet is “Lest we forget”. I think it‘s appropriate here, too.
#Booked2019 #Spring #NightOrientedTitle
The paragraph when I finally lost it.
In another lifetime, I was a History major. A lifetime before that, I was a contrarian teenager at a Catholic high school who chose Raoul Wallenberg as a character study (to the actual delight of the far-more-contrarian-than-me Nun teaching while waiting for her visa to go back to running an orphanage in Ghana).
The history and the horror aren‘t new to me but this...?
What must Wiesel think of us now? 💔
I needed a #Nightorientedtitle for #Booked2019 which were surprisingly light on my shelves (I‘m trying to read from books I already own). Somehow after Talking to My Country and I am a Troll, Elie Wiesel‘s Night wanted to be read.
Not sure about the segue from a Hawaiian based cozy mystery to a Nobel Peace Prize winner‘s “determination that humanity learn from his experience in the death camps” but here goes.
pickThis is one of those books that everyone should read, but that leaves me without much to say. What can be said? I think Wiesel does an excellent job of describing how shocking something like the Holocaust is—as he pointed out, the idea that something like that could happen in the 20th century is unfathomable. How did German citizens not notice the absolute torment? It‘s something we absolutely must never forget. #booked2019
pickI don‘t really have much to say in this review. What could I say? The book is hauntingly powerful. The impact of the truth contained in this novel is one I will never forget. Elie Wiesel tells a story that will knock the wind right out of you. Or, at least, it should. If it doesn‘t, please examine your heart. He recognizes the need to share this truth. You must recognize the need to learn from it. Few books are more important than this one.
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.” ~From Elie Wiesel‘s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Finished Spring #Booked2019 @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage
#Remember #istandwithisrael #holocaust
I stand with Israel. Please take a moment to remember this day. I‘ve been to the Holocaust Museum in Israel along with the children‘s museum. It is more than heartbreaking. Educate yourself.
What horrible memories, but to make it a life's mission so there won't be a repeat is beyond my understanding of Grace. Mr. Wiesel is one of my heroes. A truly outstanding book.
Ms. Hannah, though fictional, also wrote to bring honor to the people who fought such hatred.
TCOTCB will be one of my faves for 19.
#PopSugar19 33/50
#Chunkster19 8/10
#Booked2019 14/24 (night, clifi, gift)
@BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft
pickThis was short and tough. Wiesel‘s writing is brutal and honest—there are no attempts to find beauty or alleviate the suffering from these camps. The transcript of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech was the perfect closing: “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booked2019 #nightorientedtitle
pickOh my. I had never read this. Of all the books about the holocaust and the horrors of the concentration camps, I think this is the most brutal one I have read. Only 109 pages but so much horror and awfulness. Definitely Required Reading. Read this for #booked2019 #NightOrientedTitle and #mmdchallenge #BookPublishedBeforeYouWereBorn and I am glad that I did.
pickNight by Eli‘s Wiessel is a great nonfiction book about life in a concentration camp during World War II. In eighth grade I read this book and fell in love with it‘s heart wrenching story. The author depicts his own life in the concentration camp with his father, using some of his own stories and some of others, written in a beautiful story. It will definitely pull at your heartstrings.
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Elie Wiesel gives a brave and naked view of his time in concentration camp. His account is both excruciating and matter-of-fact, from starvation, the chimney, the babies, illness, beatings, death...this is the story of human depravity...and it's true. #Booked2019 #Spring #NightOrientedTitle
pickNight by Elie Wiesel is heart-breaking and eye-opening NF novel about a teenager who survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. His memories are retold in this book, and it is truly remarkable. I think this book would be best used in the classroom as a PR. The intense nature of this book is probably best read in partners so that the students can give each other support if needed. #LAE3414sp19
"Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their RACE, RELIGION, SEXUALITY or POLITICAL VIEWS, that place-- at that moment-- BECOME THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE."
When the POWER OF LOVE overcomes the love of power, the WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE. ~ J.H
pickI‘d never read this short, poignant and incredibly painful book before, and it was...very hard to read in places, but I‘m glad I did. I managed to hold back the tears until his acceptance speech at the end, but looking at the date (1986), and feeling how relevant to our own times those words are now, 33 years later, broke my heart a little.
#nonfiction2019 - my pick for Something With History.
It's #HolocaustMemorialDay today. I strongly recommend Night by Elie Wiesel, as well as The Choice by Edith Eger.
For a graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman.
There are so many powerful accounts of the holocaust, and it remains the biggest man made tragedy in history. One which should never be forgotten.
A small book with a big punch. Elie Wiesel tells his story from his childhood village to the camps at Auschwitz and on to Buchenwald. It‘s simply told, without sentimentality, and is all the more devastating for it.
One of the (many) things that struck me was the disbelief that this could be happening in the middle of twentieth century, a stark warning against the ‘it couldn‘t happen here‘ way of thinking.
"To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
I read a lot around the topics I teach, but this has to be one of the most poignant books by far.
pick"I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both." And this record of a man's memories in an Auschwitz concentration camp, reminds me to never be so cynical that I forget to care or forget at all. Hope goes a long way. And when you pick this book, open your eyes, you might see the ghosts of the past still live amongst. And then open your heart, listen, for action.
*"Some were crying. They used whatever strength they had left to cry."
* "The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future."
*"Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."
"As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depend on theirs."
"In the beginning there was faith- which is childish; trust- which is vain; and illusion- which is dangerous. We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image. That was the source if not the cause of all our ordeals."
pickThis is such an important book for planet earth. If you‘ve never read, then please do - and make the world a better place.
pickRead this book in 2 days as it was very hard to stop reading. The books talks about the life for a Jewish family in the 1940. Talks about how this family never imagine something so bad could happen. At the beginning he talks about a man that said the germans had cought him and others and made them dig their own graves and shot them. He escape and no one believed him. So sad a young man lost everything
Put off reading this book for years. This weekend I committed to finishing it. A few pages left, a warm puppy, and the football game in the background is a perfect freezing Winter evening! #dogsoflitsy
Sunday morning reading 💔
It seems like a good day to create some book spine poetry.
Night
Little fires everywhere
Wildly into the dark
All the light we cannot see
The undressing
The blue songbird
The sun and her flowers
#bookspinepoetry
Elie Wiesel is one of my favorites. This book lives in a prominent place on my bookshelf. Every once jn a while, I take it down to re-read certain sections. I did so again tonight.
As a reader, I do not support banning books, no matter how heinous they may be. But I also believe that reading controversial, propaganda based books should be done with sensitivity and empathy towards the marginalized communities targeted by the hate speech. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
