It seems everyone online is writing their best books of 2012 list and I hope that electronic babel of voices won’t water down my saying that The Auschwitz Volunteer is the best book I read in 2012. If you’re a… Read More ›
WWII
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen
I didn’t learn in school that “homosexuals” were a group targeted by the Nazis. I distinctly remember first hearing about it in the late 80s from the silence = death campaign created during the early years of the AIDS epidemic…. Read More ›
THE KEEP Graphic Novel
The Keep, written by F. Paul Wilson, was a popular horror novel published back in 1981. The graphic novel adaptation was drawn by Matthew Dow Smith and the script was written by F. Paul Wilson himself. It caught my eye… Read More ›
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Sarah’s KeyTatiana De RosnaySt. Martin’s, 2007ISBN: 978-0-312-37084-8Source: bought it, passed it on I finally read this book because so many customers at work told me their book group read it and had a great discussion about it. Sarah’s Key is… Read More ›
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s BerlinErik LarsonCrown Books, May 2011ISBN: 978-0-307-40884-6464 pages [FTC disclosure: I read an uncorrected proof that I requested from the publisher] Like millions of other readers out there,… Read More ›
Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
Displaced PersonsGhita SchwarzWilliam Morrow/HarperCollinsReleased: August 2010Source: library eBook The last book that I read in 2010 was a good one. It’s not exactly a superstition, call it more of a goal, but I like to end or start each year… Read More ›
Hans Fallada’s 1947 anti-Nazi classic Every Man Dies Alone
Reading this masterful novel was both painful and exhausting. Every Man Dies Alone is the story of what it was like to live in Berlin in the early 1940s. Written by someone who lived through it, the novel shows how everyone suffered under the political system of Nazi rule.