30 Book Recommendations in 30 Days — Day 13 “Stones from the River,” by Ursula Hegi. More relevant today than when it was first published almost 30 years ago.
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30 Book Recommendations in 30 Days — Day 13 “Stones from the River,” by Ursula Hegi. More relevant today than when it was first published almost 30 years ago.
pickA strong book that examines pre-WWII Germany from both the Jewish and non-Jewish perspective. It explores a time frame that I wish more was written about, so I found it a new take on Holocaust literature. Like the war, you have to hang on a little bit to get through the experience, but it‘s worthwhile.
Finally getting around to this one!
pickLanguished in my TBR forever - so glad I finally read it.
Captures the effects of WWII on a German village. The perspective of how the war affected regular German people was well done. I was engrossed.
pickThus begins the beautiful story of Trudi Montag. Set in Germany and spanning the years from immediately post WWI until a few years post WWII, Hegi gives us a glimpse at what it means to be different, to be part of a community, and the humanity that persists during the darkest of times. I took this one slow, giving myself plenty of time to savor and digest.
#ReadingEurope2020 #Germany @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
#ReadWithMrBook #tearjerker
This is meant to be my #germany pick for #ReadingEurope2020. Also, it's been on my TBR shelf for YEARS. Long, rambling sentences are making it hard to find my groove, though. Hopefully I find it soon, because this novel is a minor #chunkster at 525 pages. @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
Tea + pie + book = the holy trifecta. 😍
This is one of the most powerful and emotionally wrenching paragraphs I‘ve ever read. 😢
Two things that are necessary for my daily commute on the train: A good book and a giant travel mug filled with tea. Let‘s do this. 👊🏼
When you‘re quietly minding your own business with your book and you get the feeling that someone is watching you ... 🧐
#catsoflitsy
When you get home tired and cranky after an exhausting day of work and a long commute to the couch, a good book and a purring kitty. And suddenly all is right with the world again. 🥰
#catsoflitsy
It‘s Friday night, and there‘s nowhere I‘d rather be. 🥰
Can‘t read a book about Ebola while you‘re eating. (Seriously. Don‘t. Trust me on this. 😖) Starting this fiction book instead to hold me over for lunch.
#NFNov
@rsteve388 @Clwojick
Of all the books I‘ve read that are set in #Germany, this is the one I recommend the most often. #letsTravelAugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
For #U, my well-loved copy of Stones from the River. If you haven‘t read this one, what are you waiting for? A resonant exploration of being “other” in a world not kind to the other. #30JuneBooks @howjessreads
Such a marvelous book! I love Trudi, and there is so much that still has resonance for today. I‘ve read other Hegg since, but this is my favorite. #adventrecommends @emilyrose_x
Got some good reading in at my car repair place — fortunately they have a quiet room with desks. 🙌
#paperback #historicalfiction #historicalnovel #bulletjournal #bujo
Trying to read outside while Tesla tries to distract me...
#goodpupper #dogsoflitsy #readingoutside #summerread
Perfect summer day. Hiked through the woods, swam in a mountain stream, and am now reading outside in the evening sun. ☀️
#historicalfiction #summerreading #booksoutside
Just started Stones from the River this morning. So far I‘m already engrossed in the vibrant descriptions of the characters‘ small village.
#newbook #backlist #currentread #paperback #booksandflowers #readtheworld #historicalfiction
I read this when I was in college...while most people I‘ve talked to about this one didn‘t like it, I liked it. A moving story. And, #river is in the title! #getmovin
...much of what the church calls sin is simply being human.
Trudi, the protagonist, deals with #prejudice on many fronts - she‘s a dwarf, her mother was mentally ill, and she was friends with Jewish families in 1930‘s Germany. #catchingup #150PnPCoverParty @CrowCAH @LeahBergen
pickGibby volunteered to model with the book for my review. :)
I really liked this story and the perspective of regular small town people. It did seem to drag for me, especially the middle. Trudi was a compelling leading lady and her struggles of being a zwerge (dwarf) made the story even more interesting. It showed how all different types of people were involved in the beginning and end of the Nazi regime. A Holocaust book not set in death camps.
For some reason this book is taking me a long time to get through. I have ready many Holocaust books but I am needing more breaks from this one. Maybe I just like Trudi too much and am scared to find out what happens.
If all the people who thought like us, if we all got together, maybe we could stop this.
Relevant to current events me thinks.
#currentlyreading
There were a couple of books in the running for the #sharetheshame #24in48 #hour30challenge for the unread book I have owned the longest.
Then I opened this to find proof it was the undisputed winner.
The receipt. Dated June 27, 1996.
Not a typo: 1996
🙀
Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting-- both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.
My favorite book I read in 2017
Trudi is one of the most #independentwomen imaginable, standing up to Nazis, and living with the double stigma of her mother's mental illness and her dwarfism. #augustgrrrl @Cinfhen
I read this back when Oprah picked it for her book club. And I loved it so much I went on to read many more books by this author. #rockinmay #theriver
These three all have #theriver (although it's not in the title of the Dorris.) #rockinmay @Cinfhen
I couldn't pick just one #bodyofwater. River, ocean, sea... I've picked several body of water titles to recommend! The title tagged was a wonderful random library book sale find. It's a beautiful, deeply human story of a small town in Germany during WWII, seen through the eyes of a woman who is a "Zwerg"--German for dwarf. And of course, I couldn't leave out my favorite Gaiman, or Peace Like a River, or L'Engle, or Lindbergh... ?#maybookflowers
so-soThis is one of those books that I recognize as being objectively wonderful in spite of feeling personally ambivalent about. It does an excellent job of showing how seemingly decent people become complicit with unimaginable cruelty and Trudi, the main character, is compelling, but there were so many characters and ultimately it was too detailed and drawn out for my liking. I'm glad to be finished with it, though I don't regret reading it.
For #TBRTuesday - my library pile keeps growing taller.
This sounds way too familiar right now. Ugh.
pickThis book is especially fitting for the times. The parallels are startling.
I got this book used. a previous owner made these notes throughout the book. The book is set in Germany during the time just before hitler came to power and continues through ww2. It is quite poignant to consider these 2 very different lives and how events surely shaped both of them.
pickHow could this book not have a ton of ratings. this was the first book I knew that EVERYONE had read and weeped over. Is it that everybody read it before social media or has it been lost to the next generation?
