The Invisible Bridge | 
pickLove her writing. This is an epic tale of one young man's journey through WWII. I think the prewar section could have been cut back. The author seemed to be in love with her research at times. Like most war novels, it is heartbreaking at times. 3 🌟
pickHas this book been turned into a movie yet? How has this book not been turned into a movie?! I couldn't stop reading. It was beautiful and painful.
Book: tagged, In the Woods (Tana French), In the Heart of the Sea (Nathaniel Philbrick)
Author: Walter Isaacson
Movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Harrison Ford and Sean Connery 😍), Independence Day, It‘s a Wonderful Life
Singer/group: I don‘t think I have any favorites in this category 🙈
Song: too many choices for this one! My top 2 (I think, lol): Imagine (John Lennon), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Garth Brooks)
#manicmonday
#AlphabetGame Thanks for the tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💚 My tagged book is historical fiction which I loved and I feel like I NEED to mention 2 memoirs, which were both FANTASTIC on audio ( tagged below) 👇🏽
pickI am somewhat torn.
Having just gotten back from Budapest I recognized some of the street names, the bridges and pictured the boulevards destroyed by the war.
On the other hand, did I really need 389 pages of Parisian primer before reading about the true conflict of the story?
But did I finish the book? Yes I did. Was I glad I did? Yes I am.
1. I tried to tag one of my less popular 5⭐️ reads
2. Puffy
3. Sunsets, especially pink ones
4. New furniture for several rooms
5. I think 3rd
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Started reading this last night, while out to dinner with my partner; she takes forever to eat seafood, so my concession to going to Red Lobster was that I could bring a book. I‘m only 60 pages in, but I‘m riveted.
Having a conversation with my almost 12yo about the holocaust survivor who is visiting her class next week. She wants to ask what they think about when reading historical world war 2 fiction. We discussed how sometimes reading about situations that are traumatic when you have lived through that trauma can be a trigger. It‘s a thoughtful question to ask but I‘m not sure she‘s going to get the answer she is expecting
panI was sooooo bored! I wanted to love it because I read some positive reviews about it!
bailedI don‘t know if this just was not the right time for me or what but no matter how hard I tried I was unable to get into the book.
I can‘t help myself...another generous Litten is hosting a #giveaway 📚📚📚 @JenlovesJT47 is #payingitforward
Congrats on reaching 20K litfluence 💝🎉🙌🏻 #myfavethingsgiveaway so hard to choose just one book but this story really gave me #AllTheFeels 😌 Andras Levi, leaves his native Hungary to study in Paris in the late 1930s — until his scholarship is revoked bc anti-Jewish laws. The events that follow are harrowing & heartbreaking. Epic story
pickFirst time I read WWII fiction set in Hungary. This appears to come from the author 's family history. It was tough getting through the sad and brutal aspects but certainly well-written.
Listening to the audio as I drove around on Saturday helped make my day a good one!
pick(Disclaimer: I listened to the audio book-all 28 hours!) WWII thru the eyes of a Jewish Hungarian (a German alley). While I didn't fact check, this historical fiction seems fairly accurate. A long read, but never was I bored nor did the story drag on. A few times it was more history lesson than story but it all ties together and brings to light conditions rarely talked about - that Jews did serve under Hitler, albeit by force. A spectacular book!
#TBRtemptation post 3! Paris, 1937. Andras is a Hungarian Jew arrives with a scholarship, a suitcase. & a letter for C. Morgenstern. As he becomes involved with C., 1 brother studies medicine in Modena & 1 becomes a thespian. And we all know what befalls Europe within a couple years. From Budapest's grand opera houses to forced labor camps, the Lévi family will be tested like never before. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?
I am utterly exhausted after waking up at 3:45am today for an early flight, but I keep telling myself "just one more page..." This book is so elegantly written and descriptive that it is worth staying up a little longer. I want to finish it by the end of the week! #iwillalwaysmaketimeforagoodbook #sleepisoverrated
Thank you for my #cupidgoespostal package @Moray_Reads loving the bookmark! Thanks for organising @BookishMarginalia 💗📚💗📚💗📚💗
I've been reading this book for weeks now, and not making a lot of progress, even though it's great. I blame this (not-so-) little monster who is the newest member of our household 😍😍😍 were trying to keep her near us and happy because she is TERRIFIED of EVERYTHING including stairs and the front rooms of my house. But she's the sweetest thing ever 🐶
Wanted to jump on board with Cameo, my #readingcompanion 😺 I'm starting this monster for book club today, and she's good company 😍
Chose a favorite? Just one? Really?!? That's like asking me which of my children do I love most?!?! ( and I love them all equally just maybe some more at different moments...) But at this moment I'm thinking about THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, maybe because I heard the author speak and a survivor shared her story as well, this book really has stayed with me over the years! #augustphotochallenge #day9
pickThis eventful WWII epic held my interest partly because I am attracted to anything set in Paris (first part) & because I haven't read much that is specific to Jewish Hungarians. Arthur Morey's audio is so slow & clear that I could comfortably listen at 1.75 speed (rather than my usual 1.25).
pickI've been listening to this book for two months, but it was SO worth it. The language is beautiful, effortless, delicious. The story (which follows Andras Lévi, a Hungarian Jew, through WWII and the Holocaust) is alternately life affirming and horrifying. I was ugly crying in my kitchen in the end.
I've been making my way through the 28 hours of this audiobook since early April, and it just keeps breaking my heart. 💔
