pickI read and highly recommend the original middle grade chapter book Refugee by Alan Gratz frequently. This graphic novel version still brings a lot of the emotion but with using panels & speech bubbles paired with illustrations instead of descriptive paragraphs of text.
pickSerhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe. Published in 2021, this gripping book draws on then recently released KGB files to analyse the Cuban Missile Crisis from both the US and Russian perspective, drawing out how badly Kruschev and Kennedy misread and misunderstood each others positions and how nuclear war was averted by fear and accident more than negotiation and decision.
pickfound Janeta to be a more challenging character and not always easy to like or connect with, but I loved her journey and growth. I did connect more with Daniel‘s character and appreciated his point of view and how he reconciled what he‘d been through. As always, Alyssa Cole wrote strong characters and a great story line.
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pickPretty good historical about holocaust survivors in Cuba who were let in when other family and friends were turned away on the ship St. Louis. Took awhile to get into it and then skimmed it at the end a little. If you like Sarah‘s Key it is sort of like that.
Up next…my September #bookspin pick! I bought this at Ernest Hemingway‘s house on a trip to Key West back in 2020. @TheAromaofBooks
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