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“An erasure of history was an erasure of personhood.” This is one of those books that just takes your breath away. The story is loosely based on real transgender people living in Germany during WWII. It wasn‘t a lighthearted book since it dealt with the many atrocities that trans people faced (trigger warnings about assault & Dachau). Learned that the Allied forces after WWII were rounding up & imprisoning trans persons. Eye opening book about

Thank you so much for this lovely gift, Megan! @TheKidUpstairs ☺️

I bet you thought it was lost in the post, didn‘t you? It looks like you posted it in September! 🤨

I‘m glad you like it so much and that makes me look forward to reading it even more! ❤️

Well researched, but the chapters were very long, except for 2 of them. I never knew about a Women's Orchestra at Auschwitz. The Nazis made them play for the people arriving at the platform where the prisoners were sent right to live or left to die.

Published September 16, 2025

Low pick

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Pretty sure this would just depress the hell out of me.

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Released in 1973, set during WW2, Carrie and her brother Nick are sent to a Welsh mining village amongst other child evacuees from London to avoid German bombings. Adventure, humour, emotions and morality feature during their time with the stern Mr Evans and his sister ‘Auntie Lou‘, their visits down to Druids Bottom and the friends they make there. The last chapter had me near to tears, I hope people still write kids books with such depth!

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Pronto library book (tagged):I have to read it in a week; cannot renew. So obviously that book comes first this week. A big help: I thought I was behind on Gilot‘s book, but I was actually ahead so that section is finished for next Sunday. 😃📚

💔 it‘s so sad that this is happening today. The war on trans people is despicable, then & now. It‘s sad that there has to be a war on people just wanting to live their authentic lives. It doesn‘t take anything away from my life if other people are happy.

Library finds. I got a “pronto” book (tagged),which means I read it in one week…that‘s a challenge!

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Finally finished Kristen Lavransdatter! It was slow going as my attention span this year has mostly been that of a gnat but I enjoyed it. Also enjoyed Josephine Baker‘s memoir. What an incredibly fascinating woman!

The format of What We Knew was interesting. The individual sections held my interest more than the rest but that is me not the book.

Caught up on buddy reads except the Picasso which I will read today.

Being not just guilty of war crimes, but feeling proud, right, strong, and just because of them, is hard to imagine. What people are capable of, what nations go to great lengths to foster turns your blood cold. How pointless it all seems too. How far flung people became involved in conflicts of foreign nations. How over 100,000 people could lose their life over a rail road that is later simply dismantled.