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Wow. Painful, real, an actual true account of what happens to women after war. Couldn‘t put it down but happy to finish.

Lilly still sucks. Tina should be her real best friend.

Mia's bodyguard, Lars is the only option I would accept if I were required a bodyguard.

All of the adults in Mia's life are fun, but in different ways. It seems like she has mostly good role models.
Her dad, Philippe again steals the show. He is so cool.

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01.19.2025

DNF- Baby E took out my bookmark and I found I wasn‘t mad. So it‘s being unhauled and I‘m just going to stop reading. I kept going thinking she can‘t possibly keep having a crush on this jerk. Her crush would kiss her just to make his girl jealous, and then make up with her and then out POV character goes to Paris with all of them. Just yuk!

Wow………🥺

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I had the unique experience of reading this diary when I was the same age as Anne Frank when she wrote the first entry. I am also half German. The impact, to say the least, was profound. War, no matter where, no matter when, affects and victimizes children the most. When will we ever learn??? 💔

Iris Origo writes this for herself, not for publication, in the years 1939-40, living in Italy and married to an Italian, but of British and American parentage she has a unique perspective on the war brewing in Europe. So well written that after finishing it, before writing this, I went online and ordered two more (tagged in comments.) I could do worse than take her as a model for how to get through the next regime. #LitsyAtoZ #letterC @Texreader

I fell behind in reading this with #kindredspiritsbuddyread last year, but I caught up this month by reading a few pages every morning. This is the third volume of LMM's journals and I've found them all so interesting. I especially like reading a little a day. It has made LMM feel like a companion.

I know the print is small, but I wanted to give you the whole quote. Written in 1939 about Mussolini. But . . . Plus ça change, plus c‘est la même chose.

It‘s 11:30pm on Friday here, and I won‘t be able to finish this tonight. 😩 I have class all day tomorrow, so… here‘s a discussion prompt with zero questions and you can discuss amongst yourselves! Especially that section about LMM‘s “love affairs” 😆 (That‘s about as far as I‘ve gotten) I‘ll hop into the discussion as I‘m able and as I make progress in my reading!

The diary of a woman whose mother was British, father was American, and husband was Italian. She lived in Italy and is writing during 1939-1940. In a fascist regime. I think there may be much to learn from this slim volume.

I first read my dad‘s copy of this diary in the mid 90s when I was in my teens. Not long after, the uncensored version was published containing according to the introduction 25% more of her diary. Her dad removed a lot of the things Anne wrote about her mother. Anne started her dairy when she turned 13 and had just turned 15 when it ended, a lot of the stuff about her mum shows a teenage girl growing up; no one understands me, no one loves me.