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Zorrie | Laird Hunt

This was beautiful! I can‘t wait to discuss with everyone!
📚 A to Z= Z
📚 #sundaybuddyread2024
📚 POP= set 24 years before I was born

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tpixie Gorgeous cover! 2d

Texreader Marking this one for #litsyatoz #letterZ so I can it again!! 😃 2d

AmyG Agree. This is a lovely little gem. 2d

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Zuleikha | Guzel Yakhina

The great February book haul: I‘m always on the lookout for books for #litsyatoz. And these are literally #letter A to #letterZ

Balibee146 Zuleikha is part of my dog's pedigree name.... I sometimes call her by it if she's being naughty and she gives me The Look when she hears it 🤣 2mo

Texreader @Balibee146 Such an unusual name! I wouldn‘t have guessed it. How cute!! 2mo

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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic

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Reading an 11-year-old‘s diary when she‘s a happy child and then suffering the fates of the Bosnian War is tragic and sad. Pages of the diary were published during the war in 1991-93 when she lived in Sarajevo, and she knew she was being compared to Anne Frank. Her writing is exemplary for her age but she never understood why there was a war and why peace wasn‘t coming. She was both hopeful and sometimes suicidal as friends were killed and ⬇️

Texreader families, friends, and neighbors were displaced. From the introduction we learn her family eventually escapes to Paris and from Wikipedia we learn she went to Oxford and now champions the cause of children suffering through war. Of course an inspiration. Reading about war from a child‘s perspective is eye-opening to say the least. I am glad she left us this legacy. #letterZ #litsyatoz 2mo

Librarybelle I read this when it first came out - she is roughly my age, so it was very moving to read about a war in my lifetime by someone my age living through it. 2mo

Texreader @Librarybelle What an experience for a preteen to have read this book while the war was going on. I can tell you I don‘t think I even knew about the war in the 1990s. I was a newlywed and working two jobs. Life was difficult then so the news took the back burner. 2mo

Librarybelle @Texreader Would you believe I think I picked this up at a Scholastic Book Fair? I will say I don‘t have too many clear memories about that war, other than it was on the nightly news that my parents watched. But, her experience living in an active war zone was so striking and helped connect the odd snatches of info I‘d hear on the TV. 2mo

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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic

This once middle class family moved a wood stove found in the attic into the kitchen because electricity is out more often than it is on. And this is how they are spending the winter. #letterZ #litsyatoz

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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic

Mimmy is the name of Zlata‘s diary. Cici is her cat. So good that the cat can give an 11-year-old girl peace during war.

#letterZ #Litsyatoz

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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic

I‘ve picked this book as my next read. These are the end papers. For #letterZ #litsyatoz

IndoorDame 🤩🤩🤩 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 2mo

TheBookgeekFrau Those are Gorgeous😍😍 2mo

TheBookHippie My daughter‘s favorite book in high school or maybe college ? 😝 (edited) 2mo

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Zeke and Ned | Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana

From HPB today because I‘m always in need of #letterZ books for #litsyatoz

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The Zahir | Paulo Coelho

If anyone else struggles to find #letterZ books for #LitsyAtoZ, here‘s one on sale. Btw, is anyone else still doing this challenge?

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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life | Linda Wagner-Martin

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This was a depressing difficult book to read. Zelda was an athletic beautiful young woman, courted by many men, but F Scott Fitzgerald was determined he‘d “own” this southern belle himself. He truly believed he owned not only her but all her ideas, what she could and couldn‘t do with her life, etc. When she tried to exert some independence, particularly in ballet and writing, he blasted her! Her ballet was a waste and her ideas belonged to him. ⬇️

Texreader Eventually he broke her, from owning her and everything she did, having many affairs, and drinking so excessively no one could stand to be around him. So she was institutionalized—and he insisted on demanding the treatments she received—until her doctors, belatedly, realized he was her problem. But by then the electric shock treatment and his unrelenting beating her down had ruined her health. Frustratingly, at the beginning of the book, it ⬇️ 8mo

Texreader felt like the author was being an armchair psychiatrist. But then her thorough research shone through. It was obvious how broken she was, from primary sources: letters between Scott/Zelda, Scott/doctors, and a lengthy transcription of a heartbreaking joint therapy session. Zelda loved Scott and wanted to obey and do his bidding, but she needed freedom—physically and emotionally. Highly recommended but it is a disturbing read. #litsyatoz #letterZ (edited) 8mo

Texreader I just read this review on LibraryThing: “A good biography, though with a rather bitter feminist leaning.” You think?? A woman doesn‘t want to be owned, physically, mentally, emotionally and not have a single thought that belongs to her? 8mo

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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life | Linda Wagner-Martin

My next ebook read. #LetterZ #litsyAtoZ

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