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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?

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

You bleed every single line and learn that the worst you can do is judge. You discover about human soul what you wouldn't like to, digging into the roots of violence and meeting what a man can do to survive. It's a strange book. The content is extreme mostly because you know that it's true and I wanted to stop reading it many times but I couldn't leave the perfect beauty of the author's writing. A spell. A sharp clean mind. Rarity.

I've already started it and it's an objective yet haunting report of what the authors saw and lived through in Auschwitz. Requested by the Soviets after liberating the camp, Levi and Benedetti must try and describe the camp with an almost scientific eye. Nonetheless, in between the lines, the horror still seeps out, often making me go back and make sure I actually read what I just read. #vozesdoholocausto #hol73