Tag Archives: World War II

‘The Reader’ More Questions Than Answers

February 19, 2009 – 11:52 am

This past week I went with a couple of friends of mine to see ‘The Reader’ which is up for best picture.  Note:  If you have not seen the movie and plan to do so, you might want to skip reading the rest of this.  Only one of us had read the book byprior to [...]

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The Zookeeper’s Wife

February 6, 2009 – 12:17 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores This was my book club’s pick for the month of February and it reminded me a lot of  ‘Suite Francaise’ in that it puts a very human face to the horrific events of the Holocaust. It’s the true story of Polish zookeepers in Warsaw and how they used their bombed out zoo [...]

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Suite Francaise

January 8, 2009 – 6:27 pm

This is a novel that will sneak up on you. Do yourself a favor and read the edited version of the French edition’s preface that appears at the end of the book first. It is a mini biography of the author and the circumstances that she and her family lived under as a Jew in [...]

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