The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home | 
pickAuthor Thomas Harding has reduced his family story into a children‘s picture book. It‘s beautiful - both the artwork by Brittany Teckentruo and the pared back story to its key moments. I have ambitions to do something similar with Chasing Portraits and my great grandfather‘s paintings.
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All on my TBR shelves waiting to be read.❤️📚
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When my father-in-law passed a few years ago, my husband and I inherited family property in Texas with a 3 acre lake. We are working on rebuilding the house that was on the land and I can't wait until we're done and these are the views I get to wake up to daily. 😍
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I'm enjoying The House By The Lake. It's giving me time to reflect upon the parallels and differences in my family's story and my own quest.
Now finished...
Rescuing history and seeking restorative justice, Harding does it all in The House By The Lake. Great read and important history.
pickI was expecting a dry history book - come on, it's about Germany, I've done a German degree, I know how devoid of feeling a 'proper' history book can be 😆. But this is something else. There's so much heart in it, I felt for these people, the hardships they had to go through, the upheavals in their lives. I loved this book - I'm rather devastated that it's over. I feel a trip to Berlin coming on....
I'm loving this book so much, and I'm so near the end. Don't you hate it when that happens with a good book? Eight pages to go...
If it's set in Germany, it has to be read. I read German at university, so I'm slightly (a lot) biased! Although, it's been a while, so I'm not too sure that I'm up to fact checking 😳
