#AdventRecommends December 22nd
Freeman is looking into her family history from after WWI until present time. The focus is mostly on her grandmother and her grandmother‘s siblings.
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House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family | 
#AdventRecommends December 22nd
Freeman is looking into her family history from after WWI until present time. The focus is mostly on her grandmother and her grandmother‘s siblings.
pickAfter her grandmother dies, Freeman decides to look into her life and that of her siblings. Her grandmother grew up in Chrzanow in Poland not far from Auschwitz. They were poor and Jewish, and when the pogroms started they moved to Paris.
The book covers the 20th century and I loved reading about the Glass siblings.
I loved this one.
pickI loved this memoir / family history. It's a pageturner and truly fascinating. Also not all happy endings, it feels like proper history told without favouritism, opening up private lives to connect them to the famous bits. The sections on 1950s USA and the Paris art and fashion worlds were terrific.
A couple of books to help with #integrateyourshelf (& I think #booked2021 as well - certainly the tagged one does!) ~ both 99p on Kindle today.
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so-soThe author found a shoebox of mementos in her grandmother‘s closet that led to researching her family‘s history during the Holocaust. It was not so memorable except for her uncle Alex. Picasso and Dior had cameos in the story. I appreciate all the research, but it‘s just a so-so for the amount of time invested in listening. 2/5🖤s
so-soI have tremendous respect for author Hadley Freeman. It‘s clear she spent years researching her family memoir as well as conducting an in depth study of World History. My complaint is that this book sometimes focused on inconsequential material and felt unnecessarily shallow. While there was a really fascinating story here, it was overshadowed by Freeman‘s other indulgences. #MoreMehThanYeah #BorrowNotBuy
Wait, what??? I did not know that Hugo Boss “designed” and manufactured the Nazi‘s uniforms 😡This book is EXTREMELY detailed. Not sure the casual reader would have the patience to get through all the information but I‘m already 9 hours in...
It‘s gorgeous out ☀️🌈☀️listening to a new audiobook that is very appropriate for the upcoming Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 21) so far a ton of pre WWII history I‘m now pretty familiar with but still find fascinating. 🎧
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Felt like I needed some new audiobooks.....
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A fascinating article about why the author wrote the tagged book: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/22/grandmother-sadness-story-h...
