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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

Is Paris Burning?

Another step outside the Jewish experience of WWII. An insanely detailed account of the last few days of the Nazi occupation of Paris and the characters of its liberation. Thanks for the loan, Dad.

The Politician

Totally juicy tell-all by John Edwards’s long-time staffer/lackey Andrew Young who infamously claimed paternity of Edwards’s child with mistress. Sheesh, are there NO more heroes? Loved it. Gossipy, political, fascinating and repulsive.

Unbroken

subtitled A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Lauren Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit. Story of Louie Zamperini, Olympic runner and apparent youthful hellion who lives through a Japanese concentration camp in WWII. My first step out of the Jewish experience in World War II. Those Japanese camps were just as bad. […]

Letters from Westerbork

by Etty Hillesum, author of An Interrupted Life. This cover is actually for the letter plus the diaries, which I will read too. My copy was just letters. Thanks for the heads-up Peter and Kristen. Ms. Hillesum’s spirit is so vibrant and loving and full of spirit. Even in a concentration camp. She died in […]

Prisoners In The Palace

subtitled A Novel of Intrigue and Romance, by Michaela MacColl. This one is from Camille and Rebecca. And it may be the catalyst for a whole ‘nother historical reading jag, this one about Queen Victoria. Great fun. AWESOME cover art. Can’t see that on a Kindle, people…

I’m Down

HOW AWESOME is this cover? Wolff is raised by a white father who identifies as a black man. This memoir covers just a few fraught years of her childhood and for me it went from hilarious to harrowing. Wolff really conveys how terribly hard it is for kids to decipher their parents and all their […]