so-soI was looking for a strong holocaust story, but unfortunately this wasn‘t it. It was okay, but felt very unfinished and there were a few characters presented without actual focus on any to feel much connection.
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A Boy in Winter | 
so-soI was looking for a strong holocaust story, but unfortunately this wasn‘t it. It was okay, but felt very unfinished and there were a few characters presented without actual focus on any to feel much connection.
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so-soBook 26: A fine read for a long train journey. Interesting story, nicely woven character arcs but nothing ground breaking here for me...
(Some very elaborate reviews chosen for the cover art...!)
pickTwo young boys in Ukraine try to escape the Nazis while the rest of the town's Jews are rounded up in a cattle shed. Moving, enlightening, exciting, terrifying, heart-warming. It's all here and it's all good.
so-soThis read to me almost like a YA novel. It was paced well...but it felt almost simplistic in its style. A solid read, but not more for me.
Next up! I have heard some rough reviews of this one. #womensprizeforfiction2018
pickFor me, this book was about the choices people make when all their options could lead to disaster. It was about the situations in which good people are left with horrible decisions. And, sometimes, the ways that good is accomplished, almost in spite of itself. This was a good one. #EliReadsTheWomensPrize
Grim reading.
pick@Booksnchill recommended this one to me a few weeks ago when I was looking for books about German occupation during WW2- and I‘m glad she did. This was so much different than a lot of WW2 fiction I‘ve read, starting with the fact that it was set in Ukraine during the German advance & occupation. What struck me most about this book was that Nazi soldiers weren‘t portrayed as evil monsters- but as humans, following orders they did not like CONT‘D 👇
Today was my first time picking up holds from the #library! I love being able to add books to my que online as they come up... instead of adding them to my Amazon cart 😅
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Sunday afternoon reading on my Kindle. Can‘tput it down. #thewomensprizelonglist2018 #ebook #currentlyreading
so-soIt can be hard to judge World War Two novels, as there are so many stories and perspectives out there. This one was well written but felt like it went over very well trodden territory.
My favourite parts of many books is the epigraph... It often hides a secret meaning, which I love to look for in the reading.
pickQ: Why another novel about the Holocaust?
A: Mass exterminations on the German-occupied Eastern Front are not common knowledge.
A: Prejudice, fear & apathy are as relevant today as then. Briefly, indelibly, we enter the lives and minds of individuals—SS officer, civilian road engineer, a pair of courting Ukrainian peasants, a Jewish family headed by a lens crafter—it is individual people who do things, or don‘t, are murdered, show mercy. ❤️
Concurrently reading two poignant novels set in World War 2 Europe, both by authors with grandparents who were German Nazis.
Myko was certain. Yasia felt it in the way he held her and in the way he leaned in to her: ‘We had the Soviets, remember? Well now we have new masters. And your father, he might think well of them. But it will be just the same—just the same—under this new lot, I‘m telling you.‘
[…]
‘First they will make their promises. But it won‘t be too long before they break them all. That‘s how it works, believe me. No one takes a land out of kindness.‘
I bet I'm not the only one who's going to read this one sooner rather than later – the novel comes out in August, and centers around a young Jewish boy in Ukraine as the Nazis overrun the country in 1941. That cover photo!
