1) tagged book
2) A Time for Defiance - too much military/fighting WWII & rather pathetic sister left behind in England. Probably others but this was a recent DNF
#WondrousWednesday
Music to soothe the soul. Song is more incorruptible than love. Songs endure & pass through generations while love can be transient.
#ElieWiesel #Akhmatova #DCIBanks #EdwinMarkham #MairaKalman
We finished Night today at work.Planning to have the students watch the movie The Book Thief to wind down to our spring break, which begins on Friday. Witness is a perfect complement to Night.
pickWow this was unforgettable. Feels like similar stories have been told but this one was so compelling. Couldn‘t put it down.
The language of stories. I am reading Witness along side our class reading of Night.
#ninfiction #storygraph #TBR
pick4.5 ⭐ This is the story of Maurice, a young man who had to flee his home when Nazis took over. He had a dream all his life to become a lawyer. Because lawyers helped people. But life moving from place to place to stay away from the war and death took its toll on Maurices education. As a refugee in Jamaica, he wanted to continue his education, but the refugees were not even allowed out of camp without a day pass. So instead of going to school,
pickI enjoy memoirs and this one was no exception. Her portrayal of being a Jew during the Holocaust is raw and honest in that many of her feelings are typical for being a teenager. Equally impressive with her resilience was how much detail Gerda remembered. Highly recommend!
pickThis was a very hard read, but l also think so important. This book shows the evil people are capable of, but also the importance of acts of kindness- no matter how small. It‘s chilling to think of how easily the German people accepted the Nazis antisemitism. A lesson to us all
