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Hertman's Ghent house,where he lived for 20 years,is a metaphor for Belgium's history after World War I.The family that lived there represents the divided society during Nazi occupation: collaborators&opponents as the family is divided within the house-the father,Willem Verhulst,who wears an SS uniform,is an informer&Nazi,while the mother,Mientje,is a liberal,art lover,&religious woman. Hertmans combines his own memories of the house

If I can finish 5 of my current reads, I'll be happy. #TurnthePage @Bookwormjillk Thanks for doing this.

*Cat (Serene) is not allowed on the table
This was the wrong time to read this book. I thought it was well crafted. Chan handled the multiple times and POV well. I was never confused where or who we were dealing with. I appreciate this being an area that is a historical blind spot for me (British Malaya occupied by Japan)
The writing is obviously debut level, a bit chunky, occasionally trying to do too much. But she gets her points across.

4.75⭐️ I really liked this book and was quite surprised that I did. I‘m no ballet expert but it seems like it‘s pretty accurate. I also liked the background of the height of the #coldwar rather than #wwii. I am really curious as to what next this author produces. #2025 #historucalfiction #russia #unitedstates #fiction #literaryfiction #family #rivarly

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#Falling ༄˖°.?☕️.ೃ࿔*:･

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The book is based on a photograph brought to the Holocaust Museum in DC. There were so many important & sad points made throughout the book. There are so many people & families that were murdered that historians feel that they still don‘t have the full story. That there has been so much whitewashing & pushback on researchers. Making it difficult to access archives or digger further into the past. My grandmothers family left Poland in the early

#CurrenteBook #FaveAuthor #WW2 #WhatswiththeFamingo?

[updated 9/21 - just can‘t seem to focus, not sure why WW2 fatigue? Oh well, putting back on tbr⛰️ ]

Number the stars was by far my favorite book of my childhood… I credit this book for giving me my love of historical fiction!!

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I can‘t say I wasn‘t warned. The above sentence appears in the introduction. While the methodology of the surveys is important for academics and the differences in interpretation of the data by the 2 authors points to some issues, this book is not readable. And it doesn‘t offer me any ideas on how to safely resist. How anyone can make such horror so dry is beyond me. The information is good, but if you put people to sleep they won‘t absorb it.

#tlt #threelistthursday this might be my movie genre 😆 some of them I couldn‘t remember seeing but I thought I had ( The Croft) but I left them off. Sweet Home Alabama I have seen a bazillion times ❤️❤️❤️ Mystic Pizza - my first Julia Roberts film ❤️❤️❤️ Moonstruck I would watch 100 million times plus all the witch films and everything ever set in autumn starring Meg Ryan. Maybe tonight is movie night