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#BookCoverChallenge
Day 39.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

The "Germany won the war" alt-history novel has been done a few times, of course, but this one is still a cracking read. I didn't totally buy the central love story but I suppose that goes with the territory. And the last 100 pages brought home the horror of the Nazi regime perhaps more vividly than any of the many histories of the period I've read.

Not remotely a Christmas book, Fatherland is set in an AU 1960's Berlin, where Germany won WWII. This wasn't a fast-paced book, but it was compelling reading with a lot of depth. The very realistic world-building made me wish for a whole series by this author.

#TBRread #WinterGames #MerryReaders @Clwojick @StayCurious

Just ok 🤷‍♀️
Wanted to love it, alternative history, detective story. But I just felt a bit meh through most of it.

I'm sensing a theme with all these #FromParistoBerlin books... 😂
I LOVED All the Light We Cannot See and Fatherland is TBR, courtesy of @Vinjii 😘

#SeptemberDanes @Kalalalatja @Cinfhen

This is a police procedural set in Hitler's Germany during 1964. As a police procedural it worked well. I enjoyed the story line, the characters, and the plot development. As an alternative history, it didn't really work for me. I'm not sure if it's a function of having audio-ed this one, but that aspect of the story felt underdeveloped to me.

An exciting thriller! Set in 1964, this is written as if Germany had won WWII. A body is found and the police inspector on the case starts to uncover a dark secret. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Happy Father's Day!

This is one of my favourite picture of my Dad and I - taken about 4 hours after I was born! He had a lot more hair then! 😂😂😂

The tagged book is something he would read!

1. None, I don't typically buy cards, I give gifts and if the gift is card shaped I write a note card for the occasion and put it inside.
2. Either, both, neither? Depends on how I'm feeling about my legs
3. Neither
4. I scoop a pretty mean ice cream.

@BarbaraTheBibliophage
#sassysunday

Man, I ❤️ a good alternative history! Given the current state of politics, this feels a bit more frightening. The premise - Hitler won the war & that serves as the backdrop to a police procedural that may involve deconstructing the propaganda of the Reich. It's a book my husband loved. (Though he bent the hell out of the paperback copy I am reading while on public transit so he wasn't accused of being a nazi sympathizer. 😂)

Hi everyone!😍 Finally home to open my #halloweengoespostal package from @Vinjii from London!👻 Olivia THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤❤ I haven't read any of the books (or heard of half of them) and I love everything; Mr Booklight is so funny😂😂 You have over-spoiled me and I feel more excited than 5-year-old me at Christmas!
Thank you also to @BookishMarginalia, as always ❤❤

I was expecting more from this book, l'll be honest. A mystery novel set in Berlin in 1964, but with the Nazis still in power. I was expecting to see the spirit of the 1960s fightung a totalitarian regime.

It isn't thar stoey. Even the alternate history side isn't very strong. Could have been just a WWII story.

Still an enjoyable read, but could have been a lot more.

Full review here http://theoldshelter.com/thursday-quotables-fatherland/

And so this is the result of my #LitsyPartyOfOne More than half the book is read... which is what l was aiming for.

I'm really enjoying the novel too. The mystery is exciting, and the worldbuilding nearly lives of its own and has a lot to offer of its own account.
Can't wait to see how it ends 😁

Thanks @Ambrosnazzy to organising this event 👏👏👏 l had a great fun 📖🎊🎊

The train is one hour late. Oh, well. The right occasion to put in some more read for the #LitsyPartyOfOne

Fine, human. If you must do this #LitsyPartyOfOne then do it. But don't expect me to move a hair in this heat

#LitsyPartyOfOne @Ambrosnazzy

Won't be able to put in too much read, today, because l have people visiting. And l'm afraid they'll have to suffer my first experiment with the frozen banana dessert 😈

#LitsyPartyOfOne @Ambrosnazzy

This is getting so addictive. I sense an entire new world unfolding in front of me. Berlin in the 1960s still under Nazi power. A murder just during the Fuhrertag, the one week celebration of Hitler's birthday.

I sense big troubles coming...

On the train to work and l'm all ready to go!

#LitsyPartyOfOne @Ambrosnazzy

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Its 1964. The germans have won the war. The story follows detective Xavier March as he is called to retrieve a body from the river. But it all takes a turn and he finds himself up against the Gestapo!
Anyone who likes conspiracies would enjoy this one.
#bookstagram #review #fatherland #robertharris #bookishreview #bibliophile #booklover #itsnothoardingifitsbooks #crimenovels #crimefiction #germanbooks #redbooks #fiction #oldbooks

#RockInMay #America
I haven't read this yet, thought it has been on my #TBR basically since it came out (errr... yeah, let's say l'm a crowling reader 🙄). A few books have come out recently with the same premise and l find it so fascinating. I sense the time has come for this one 😆

Just started my first read for April. I love car reading!

I'm a fan of alternate histories, and looked on Kindle and in our library system, only to find it at the Salvation Army!

⭐⭐⭐ A solid read. Alternate History. Hitler won the war. A nice read for the Christmas days. But obviously for any other day as well. Got a few books from family members so I'm pretty happy 😍