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Dawn
Dawn: A Novel | Elie Wiesel, Frances Frenaye
Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
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Eggs
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“How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end? How are we ever to break the cycle of violence and rage? Can terror coexist with justice? Does murder call for murder, despair for revenge? Can hate engender anything but hate?”
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine who is ordered to kill a British officer at dawn .
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Monica5
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Well, I only read 2 hours yesterday bc I got sucked in to the Murdaugh case here in the USA. For those of you in others countries, it's a case where a guy is accused of killing his wife and son. Anyway, that's the reason for so low number. I plan on doing laundry, reading and taking new pup outside today 😊

#20in4 Readathon February
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Andrew65 Well done on those two hours. Certain things in life do pull us away from reading. 13mo
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Monica5
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First this book is nothing like Night. Night is a non-fiction book, this one is fiction. It looks at Elisha, a boy, coming face to face with committing murder. I think Wiesel probably wrote it to see if he could have killed some Nazi when he was in Buchenwald and Auschwitz . It was okay. Nowhere as good as 'Night'. There is one more left, 'Day' I will probably read it just to finish the trilogy.

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rachelk Oh good to know, thanks for the tag! 13mo
Monica5 @rachelk your welcome. I didn't know until I read the preface it was fiction. 13mo
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Monica5
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'Somewhere a child began to cry.'

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Jovy
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Not as compelling as the first book, but still makes you think about what you would do in his shoes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Cinfhen I haven‘t read this one, even though I‘ve read and re-read NIGHT many many times. Thanks for reminding me to continue on 💔 3y
TheSpineView Awesome! 👍📖📚 3y
BarbaraTheBibliophage He is so wise … borne of hard, hard experiences. 3y
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Jari-chan
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Sometimes I think it's a bit to narrow to just say a book is a Pick, or rate it with stars. The books by Elie Wiesel are such titles. They deal with topics that one can't just simply “like“ or “dislike“. Also, I can't understand why his books aren't that famous in my country. They are marvels. Marvels to be cherished and to be never forgotten.

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TheSpineView Great job! 💙📖 3y
TheAromaofBooks Great review!! 3y
CoffeeNBooks I've read Night, but not this one. He has a captivating way of telling his story. 3y
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Jari-chan @TheSpineView @TheAromaofBooks Thank you both 😊 ❤️ 3y
Jari-chan @CoffeeNBooks He does! Dawn has the same intensity as Night, I think. 3y
Jeannineth I find it hard to rate nonfiction period. But Night is a masterpiece. (edited) 3y
Jari-chan @Jeannineth Some genres really are harder to judge. And I agree - it's a masterpiece and unique. 3y
AkashaVampie Yay!!! Great job sweetie 3y
Jari-chan @AkashaVampie Thank you ❤️ 😊 3y
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shanaymayer
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It‘s been a few years since I read Night but do remember what a powerful punch the short book gave. I feel the same about Dawn. Such a tiny vignette into Elijah‘s life as a part of The Movement and the hard choices he had to make as he toils with the past, present, and immediate future, yet something that leaves you with that punch in the chest kind of feeling.

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Angelica Hopes
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How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end? How are we ever to break the cycle of violence and rage? Can terror coexist with justice? Does murder call for murder, despair for revenge? Can hate engender anything but hate?
~ Elie Wiesel, Dawn

Angelica Hopes The other day I finished reading “Day“ by Elie Wiesel. It made me cry. Now I am reading “Dawn,“ and other of his works are lined up in my ebooks to read. 3y
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JenDR
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Forgot to bring my lunch time book today so started this audiobook. I have been meaning to read the entire series of this since I had to read Night in high school. I kept thinking I should re-read Night first but could never bring myself to do it. Today, I made peace with the fact that I will never re-read that book. I just can‘t face it.

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Cyndij82
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Book 2 of the trilogy. Book 1 Night was a fantastic book. Very moving and unbelievable what the Jews went through.

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LibrarianBecky
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Book #2 in the night trilogy finished! I didn‘t realize that book 2 and 3 are fictional stories. Written well and really captured the innocence and idea behind revenge.

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MsLeah8417
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Book buying: Are you in control of it or is it in control of you?

I‘m not in control at all! 😂

This is my latest little haul from Goodwill.

Jennick2004 No control here 🤷‍♀️ And Book Outlet has a sale right now... 5y
TheLibrarian Zero control. My husband is threatening to burn 1/2 my books and his sister says I need an intervention. 😂 5y
abookishbutterfly @Jennick2004 Oh, a sale! 😍😂 5y
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abookishbutterfly @TheLibrarian Haha! My husband is an enabler, for sure, but I am pretty sure my kids are ready to institutionalize me! 5y
Kimberlone Other than my #BOTM subscription I truly limit myself to buying used books, either with trade credit at the used book store or at the thrift shop that sells books for ten cents a piece. I will buy books for my kindle, but only if there is a deal. I try to take advantage of Hoopla/Overdrive as much as possible otherwise. 5y
Reagan Completely out of control 😥 5y
Caroline2 😆 it‘s a good haul tho! 👍🏻 5y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Although the next book in this “trilogy” is a fiction, and doesn‘t directly follow the non-fiction predecessor, this volume was equally hard to read as it delve into how those so hollowed out and tortured try to cope with life after, and how many choose to fight back and become more vigilant and militaristic themselves, the victims becoming the murderers because they feel the world has given them no alternative. Both disturbing and heartbreaking.

GingerAntics This has been on my wish list for a long time. You‘re the first person I know who has ever read it. 5y
MrBook Great review!!! 5y
kgriffith Excellent review. I was in a musical based on the real life of a holocaust survivor, with just the opening scene happening before her release from the concentration camp: the rest is about life afterward, and it is harrowing and beautiful. 5y
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ephemeralwaltz Great review! Stacked. Night was intense... 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great review. I need to read this one. 5y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @GingerAntics if you want to really understand how populations that are suffering, feeling ignored by the world, and then turn to terrorism, it‘s a good read for that.....and sadly very timely too. 5y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @ephemeralwaltz I‘ll admit, I was a bit concerned. Night is intense, but it‘s intense because it‘s true....I wasn‘t sure how that would carry over into a fictional sequel. 5y
GingerAntics It‘s another one of those books that is being amazingly poignant for the moment. 5y
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LibraryCin
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Panpan

Boring. The premise doesn‘t sound too bad, but ultimately, it was mostly Elisha discussing philosophy with his fellow terrorists. It is billed as book 2 after “Night”, but it was fiction whereas Night was a memoir. I won‘t be reading the 3rd book.

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LauraRenae
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Mehso-so

His books don‘t resonate with me as much as they do for others, it seems. But still some powerful lines. #aroundtheyearin52books

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AF_AF
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I read Night last year. Now for Dawn. I was surprised how short it is (81 pages!). I should be able to read it in one sitting.
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Robinsroute
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"A man hates his enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: This fellow, my enemy, has made me capable of hate. I hate him because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate"

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Robinsroute
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This book is the 2nd book in the Night trilogy. It's a fictional account of a young holocaust survivor, who left Europe to live in a British-controlled Palestine, now finds himself in a situation where he begins to question his morals and battles between what was done to him in his past and what he feels he needs to do in the present. It was a beautifully written book and although it's short I had to have a good think about it after reading it.

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Anna40
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What if a young man condemned to experience the hell of Buchenwald, condemned to die, survives and becomes an executioner?

Anna40 "Fear caught my throat. The tattered fragment of darkness had a face. Looking at it, I understood the reason for my fear. The face was my own." 7y
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Beauty.And.Her.Books
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Aaronlisa
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So many questions obsessed me.

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Kristy_K
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A slow start for me this morning. I had trouble concentrating on this one. A fictionalized account of a young Holocaust survivor who joins a group of Israelis in Palestine called the Resistance. They're fighting against the British in order to gain independence for Palestine. Elisha, the young man, is selected to kill a British hostage at dawn. This short novel is morose & has an existential feel to it. 🌟🌟🌟🌠

#ERMadlibs #singularnoun #24in48

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Kristy_K
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Was hoping to make it to 12 hours today, but eyes are feeling heavy and I don't want to miss out on something in this book. This just means less breaks tomorrow!

#24in48 #readathon

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JessFerg
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"You are the sum total of all that we have been."

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OrangeMooseReads
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Short and powerful.
This is the second in a trilogy. The first is 'Night' which is Elie Wiesel's memoir of his time in the concentration camps. 'Dawn' is a fictional account of a young survivor in English occupied Palestine.

Libby1 This book. Powerful. 7y
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OrangeMooseReads
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A fellow literary fan (litten is weird to me sorry) posted the other day of trying this brew so I grabbed some because, holiday travel and family. @britt_brooke thanks for the recommendation
And white fudge covered Oreo mmm

britt_brooke 🙌🏻 What do you think? It wasn't my favorite, but it went down easily. 😊 Tasted a little too vanilla, maybe. Thanks for the tag! ❣️ 7y
OrangeMooseReads @britt_brooke it's not bad. It does go down easy. It taste better when it gets a little warmer. 7y
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OrangeMooseReads
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Decided to go with this for #51TBR16 and then I'll read 'Day' if I can stay awake and ignore the cleaning (no problem) I might be able to finish them both today #readinggoals

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OrangeMooseReads
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#bookpyramid #photoadaynov16
This is the closest I have to it right now

merelybookish I like the little note tucked in. 7y
OrangeMooseReads @merelybookish it's actually a bookmark lol 7y
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OrangeMooseReads
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Yay!

... so the one with nothing on the spine is Nellie Bly Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Ten Days in a Mad-House. It's a little sketchy. I'll post pictures of it.

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Simone
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Mehso-so

I really enjoyed 'Night', so I was excited to read 'Dawn' but it just wasn't it for me.
It takes place in just this one "scene" and just seems very drawn out and I, personally, had a hard time connecting with the character.