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I am reading this one now about Japanese American soldiers in Europe during the big war, while their families were interned in camps back home!

4.25⭐️ Really liked the book. While the book read a bit simplistic, it was very well written. The story flowed well and I enjoyed the story as well. #2025 #biographicalfiction #historicalfiction #fiction #wwii #holocaust #bookclub

Page 48 / printed copy

„All The Light We Cannot See“ by Anthony Doerr is a beautiful story set in tragic times weaving together the lives of a sheltered blind French girl and a German orphan boy.

The main characters' emotions and decisions in the book polarise. They navigate the moral complexities of WW2 and it‘s definitely not an easy read with the weight of that era‘s tragedies.
The ending was deeply touching, though I felt it lingered a bit too long.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Beautiful writing, without any sensationalism or exaggeration, telling what it was like to live through 1943 & 44 in Italy, first far enough from the fighting to be considered a safe place to evacuate children, then literally the front lines. Fleeing at a moments notice, on foot, with 4 infants, 23 children under 10, and various adults. Dealing with partisans, fascists and Germans, all armed, all wanting to take whatever food, clothes etc.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-ap-literature-free-response-titles-list-4
2. My score was 15 out of 110
3. My favorites were When The Emperor Was Divine, Sense and Sensibility, and Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. I think everyone I would tag has already been tagged, lol!

“If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”

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Love this one ❤️

My library haul for today. I was there for the tagged book, which came in as a hold, but I grabbed a few others. The “blind date with a book“ ones had been set up for Christmas, and I felt bad that so many had been left unborrowed, so I scooped up any that were fantasy/SF.

They were Raymond E. Feist's King of Ashes, Karen Lord's The Blue Beautiful World, and Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad, which I miiiight have already read, I'll have to check.

Rome in May of 1943. Would that I can be that sanguine!