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I'm not sure how I feel about this. Stafford is a quality QB, and a probably upgrade from Jared Goff, but I think the Rams paid too much for him. A 3rd round pick in 2021, a 1st round pick in 2022 & 2023, and they get Goff too!?!! I think Rams management might have mortgaged their future, at least the next 3 years, with this trade.
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Levi was a partisan for about 3 months and this is about Levi, the fighter, and the early days of the Resistance. Luzzatto moves away from the glorifying image of the good partisan and paints a realistic and honest picture of the Resistance. Se questo è un uomo is one of the most important novels I read, finding out more about Levi, the fighter, made me appreciate him as a complex man. Not sure if someone who hasn't read Levi will enjoy this book?

Of course, there‘s no easy way to review this book about Levi‘s long winding road home from Auschwitz, a path that included a summer in the empty plains of what is now Belarus. What struck me is that this isn‘t a sad reflective book. It‘s stories, and they‘re, first, entertaining.

My current book (outside the Litsy group reads) with my mascot of the day (and some of her handiwork on our furniture. 😕)

Levi‘s story of Russian liberation and the long crazy path home after Auschwitz. I thought somehow this would be reflective, which matches my mood now. But actually it‘s about story telling, and all the fantastic characters he‘s around in this kind of quagmire of liberation.

5⭐️ book! Primo Levi‘s final book gives an unwavering look at the legacy of Nazi Germany and the phenomenon of concentration camps, of which Levi was a survivor. I know a lot of people are escaping into comfort reads and fantasy, but I can only find solace in authentic human testimonies of suffering. This motivates me to be vigilant and speak up. These essays are exceptional but “The Gray Zone” stands out. Powerful read; please add it!!!

Shortly after liberation from Auschwitz, Primo Levi & friend Dr Leonardo de Benedetti were asked by Russian authorities to report on conditions & practices in the camp. This is that report.

Republished for a wider audience in 1946, it‘s unemotional but hard-hitting, with a graphic focus on medical states, treatments & squalor. Not one to linger over, it undoubtedly adds to the understanding you get from more personal survivors‘ memoirs.

I knew this was going to be a difficult read.

Here is page 1.

I‘m getting ready to start “The Drowned & the Saved” tomorrow. I‘m thinking of reading it in tandem with watching “Shoah”.

Has anyone seen “Shoah”? I know it‘s 10 hours long so I‘d be pacing it out over several days.

Is there anything you‘d recommend to get through it? I realize it‘s going to be emotionally difficult.

The third book in the Auschwitz trilogy. The author, a survivor, committed suicide at 68 one year after its publication. Given that the author committed suicide you can see the darkness in its pages. Focusing on humans who do the inhumane, an important story told from first person knowledge. Primo Levi is told by a religious friend that one of the reasons he survived is to bear witness which is one of the reasons he wrote his books. #1001books