The whole first layer is finished - up to bag #22 - from here on out it‘s details 🎉🎉 I am thoroughly enjoying this history, remembering my essays written on the Black Death in uni, but having completely missed the price the Jewish people paid ( W the AF ) when they were blamed even before the disease arrived in towns 🤬
Hallmark employees enjoyed a ChocPudding song from their co-workers. #JuneSpecials ChocPudding. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
My last audio book got clawed back before I finished so I started this while I do errands, putter and Lego ( this is Van Gogh‘s Sunflowers )
I might have this one, but I like this cover. 😍 Did a swap 🥰
pick5✨ I absolutely love Hannah‘s storytelling, and this is only the second book I‘ve read! This historical fiction gutted me with the raw emotion based on true events happening in WW2 in France. It followed two sisters and their fight to do the right thing when war caused the horrible events that occurred. While one sister helped soldiers, the other helped her Jewish friends. It provided different perspectives that would have been seen by the women.
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This engaging dual time line story(1943/1953)kept me riveted throughout.It‘s fast-paced,a tale of love, survival, & the challenges of war. Two woman are the protagonists, Helene is a POW living and working in the Levitan,a department store in occupied Paris. Her job is to sort confiscated Jewish goods for resale to Nazi officers.Louise, once a Red Cross volunteer who delivered packages to POWs during WWII,is now a ⬇️
pickThis was a quick read but it wasn't as thrilling as I wanted it to be. Very interesting story though
Such a fun time at the Summer Reading kick off. For those of you whose kids are grown, they have a program for adults at most libraries.
Are you participating in your library‘s summer reading?
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#summerreading
#preorderbookclubchallenge #April #histotricalfiction #porchlife
Finished this tonight. Initially I read it, then put it aside, then picked it up again, etc. As usual, I need to sit on the book before i review it here. I am glad I read it.
