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Really enjoyed this book on WWII and the women who helped! The story has several story lines that start then intertwine together.

Warning: this book is LONG and begins as separate stories that eventually merge, a story that requires your full attention.

If you've ever wondered how a whole nation could become so complacent as to stand by while 11 million humans are executed, allow this book to explain. The slow replacement of empathy with apathy, love and humanity with hatred and singularity. Unaware of the hell that's become until after the fact.

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Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn people.

I haven't read any WWII historical fiction in ages. I guess I've been burned out on it. My other book was a DNF.
I got this last Christmas from my bestie and am just now getting around to giving it a go.

Opening today due to not being able to get to opening yesterday & the fact that doing so today makes it feel more like a birthday 🎁. That being said, I feel so spoiled @rsteve388 thank you so much!! Your generosity had me alternatively 😀 & 😭 I love everything! As I finally have some me time, I'm going to dive right into the candy while I try to decide which book to start! Thank you so much! 🥰🥰
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I so thought I would enjoy this, as WW2 historical fiction is one of my go to genres. However, this was a slog. It may be an #unpopularopinion, but it was so dry, more like a history book than a story. Little to no character development and without some personal connection to the characters, there were too many of them to keep track of or care about.

Recently started—I am enjoying this so far, an interesting and informative start in Pre-WW2 Germany. Strong group of women! 😊

I listened to Jennifer Chiaverini's Resistance Women for my IRL book club (the audiobook is over 20 hours long, but it's really great), and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My WWII-book fatigue didn't kick in at all because the approach here was quite different from many of the books I've read. Chiaverini spends a lot of time on what's happening in Germany through the 1930s, as Hitler's political career starts taking off. ⬇️

This was a bit disappointing. It reads more like a history of Hitler‘s rise to power than a story of women in the resistance. As a matter of fact, I got 225 pages into it and there wasn‘t any resistance activity to speak of. It‘s well written and very informative. Just not what I was looking for right now. Maybe I‘ll try it again some other time. But, I did get 2 bingos for #bookspinbingo out of it.

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The sharp wind off the water where the North Sea met the Weser River whipped locks of hair from Mildred‘s braid and brought tears to her eyes, but nothing could compel her away from the railing of the upper deck of the SS Berlin as it approached Bremerhaven.

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A fictional account based on real resistance women. For the length, I was disappointed that the resistance work seemed more of a subplot. Chiaverini doesn‘t really detail their actions until the last 1/5 of the novel. It was a lot of vague mentions of flyers and radios. I would have appreciated more depth to their work.

Loving this one so far

This was an interesting book on the experiences of women during WWII. Maybe it‘s the wrong time for this story with the pandemic and so close to reading my last WWII read.

I enjoyed this for the actual historical ness of the historical fiction. It‘s well researched and took me a while to get through but was enjoyable nonetheless.

Patrons aren't getting as much of a chuckle out of my cover trend display as I'd hoped (though the books are going out!) so I thought I'd share here with all of you. Has anyone else noticed this cover trend with historical fiction? You start seeing it everywhere once you do!

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At times I question my love of WWII historical fiction as by nature of the horrors of war, you rarely find one without a #sadending for at least one character. This was a good, well-researched book based mostly on real-life women who resisted against the Nazi‘s in Germany but it was tough for me to get through all 600-ish pages. Since I‘m still under the weather, I cheated & added fresh pears to a coffee cake mix for my pairing...

Yesterday‘s soup never got posted mainly because the slight sore throat & earache I had got worse & I crapped out for the rest of the day/night. Home from work today & mostly sleeping & when awake trying to finish the tagged book which is good but taking forever for me to get through. But the soup is Potato-Leek Soup with Boursin & the recipe link is below.

Trying to imagine that my desk breakfast of strawberry Noosa yogurt with Trader Joe‘s toasted coconut granola & strawberries is the same as the Berries & Cream Cloud Cake on my calendar.🤔😉😋 I got a reprieve from my book tour rep on this book. My review was supposed to be today but she nicely moved it out for me since work issues + house guests are making it hard to fit in much reading this week.

I‘m so about women in WWII right now.

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For the number of POVs, I found it slow moving. Or perhaps I‘ve read enough Nazi Germany era novels centered around women that I‘m bored with this sub-genre. I don‘t know how else or how many times you can describe the horrors of these years before one goes “I‘ve got it now”. But these books still serve as a lesson in today‘s political environment. I just don‘t need to read a dozen of them. 3 or 4 years ago I may have been raving about it.

Next book up and it is a big one.

1. I‘m listening to this one from Modern Mrs Darcy‘s Summer Reading List
2. Last weekend and this week were so busy so this weekend I‘m going to rest and read as much as I can.
3. Chocolate, but I love almost any ice cream
4. No but I sing. I wish I had tried harder when I took piano in elementary school.
5. On it!

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars!!! This books needs to be a required read for everyone! This one is going to stick with me for a long time and I don‘t mind one bit ❤️

My current audiobook is set in #Germany before and during World War II. I haven‘t gotten very far into that story yet, so there‘s just a strong sense of dread for what is to come. #LetsTravelAugust

The vacuuming is done, kitchen is cleaned up, and laundry is started so.... book break!! 📚🥤
This book is fascinating!! Tells the story of several women in Germany before, during (and I‘m assuming after?) Hitler‘s rise to power. The events I learned about in history classes are told from their perspectives on the street 👍🏻

Hmmm, what other leader is a “loud, angry man”? 🤔 Reading this paragraph gave me pause because a “vast number of people” still exist in 2019😔

This word should be “trial” not “trail”. Ugh.

This book is otherwise lovely, but these kinds of errors irritate me.

This was a wonderful novel! It‘s a much longer book than what I‘m used to so it took me a while but so worth it! The details the highs and lows for the characters and to find out the majority of them were real people...amazing! I am always amazed at the bravery of so many against such cruelty especially when their actions came with grave consequences. Overall a fabulous WWII historical fiction!

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ModernMrsDarcy.com Summer 2019 Reading List

The Resistance Woman are Mildred Harnack, Greta Kuckhoff and Sara Weitz. These brave women waged covert operations against Hitler in Berlin. American Mildred and her German husband move to Berlin in 1929 just as Hitler was about to seize power. The book does a good job explaining how so many people got duped into following Hitler because they really didn‘t know what was going on until it was too late.

I assumed this longish book would be lost in the many books of similar title and subject I‘ve read, but I wanted to give it a chance. I liked it - a lot. The history of residents caught up in the devolving of Germany through the 1930s and early 40s was well researched and intriguingly presented. I was engaged with the characters (most non-fictional) and the paths and beliefs that brought them together to resist hate as the norm.

This one was a little too dragged out for me. Women in World War Two. A lot of detail, a long book, and not all of it added to the story.

Very thoroughly researched but a bit too wordy and long for me. A good story overall.

New book. Going to start this soon #historicalfiction

This story features four women and their families as they resist from the inside.

Where Resistance Women differs from other WW2 fiction is: the slower pace helped me to really FEEL the stripping-away of individual freedoms as the Nazis continuously made new laws undermining Jewish people and Germans. There are few action scenes; still, the last third of the book had me glued to the pages. Immersive + very very good. Thank you @WilliamMorrowBooks!

On a whim I decided to sign up as an Early Reviewer on LibraryThing. I only chose 2 books and figured my chances were slim at best. Found out I was selected for this one this morning. Woo hoo to new reading adventures!