oh how I love to read…it really is one of the greatest joys, hopefully I am passing that on to the monsters…so far so good…why is it that is even better reading in the summer..this evening I sat in the redneck chair in the yard (if you live close to me you understand) and read while the kiddos played…I usually have a couple books going at once, right now what is occupying my mind is my new find…”It Happened in Italy” it is an awesome true story about how the Jewish people were treated kindly in camps in Italy during WWII it is an amazing book and I highly recommend it..by Elizabeth Bettina…so tell me…what are you reading???
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I recently read a wonderful fictional book about the holocaust. It was very emotional but so worth the read. The title is Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. Here is a review of the book that I copied from Amazon.com Let me know if you read it. We seriously need to start a book club!
De Rosnay’s U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d’Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél’ d’Hiv’ roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand’s family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand’s family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay’s 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia’s conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah’s trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down.
Currently reading, Facing your Giants by Max Lucado. Awesome read! Just finished his Cure for the Common Life. I”m on a Max kick right now but open one of his books and you’ll see why!
Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen. The Shack (been working on that one for a while) by William P. Young. The Pampered Chef by Doris Christopher. And, A love Worth Giving by Max Lucado.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Foster)
Turn of the Screw (James)
and assorted beach reading
Just finished The Wife and High Maintenance (junk reads, but good for the pool) Now onto the AP reading for the start of the school year! Cheers!
Just finished Mythology (Hamilton), Fences (Wilson), Great Expectations (Dickens), Clay’s Quilt (House, my old favorite) and now onto Great American Short Stories: An Anthology! Ah, literature at its best . . . .