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4.25⭐️ Really liked the book. While the book read a bit simplistic, it was very well written. The story flowed well and I enjoyed the story as well. #2025 #biographicalfiction #historicalfiction #fiction #wwii #holocaust #bookclub

Books I am concentrating on this weekend #weekendreads

This was such a poignant book. I couldn't put it down but felt so emotional as I read it. Such a compelling story of love

Read last Aug 8 📖
Completed the tv series Sept 14 📺
#thetattooistofauschwitz #heathermorris #bookstoscreen #goodreads #goodreadsreadingchallene

What a beautiful and incredible story of survival in one of the worst points in human history. I‘am grateful for my high school history teacher teaching us about this horrific time as he was told not to include the Holocaust in our curriculum. He showed us the worst of it, there was no filtered information that he gave us or showed us and that class stuck with me for many years after. Let us never forget !

Touching story

Part of my book sale haul. There‘s another bag in the car and of course this is just day 1 - one of the volunteers said this is the biggest book sale in North America. ( I‘m going again tomorrow 💃🕺)

Heartbreaking read. I read this in one sitting on a bus on a day out. My mouth fell open at the tragedies endured by so many in this book. What strength those people had. Incredible story that needed to be shared. The glimmer of hope that Late carried and love he had in his heart. 💙

“I tattooed her number on her left hand, and she tattooed her number in my heart.”

#auschwitz #tattoo

Interesting tale of love and loss in a concentration camp. Lale‘s story of survival takes the reader on an interesting journey through Birkenau and Auschwitz. Lale was confident that he would do whatever it took to survive. His strength led him to a unique concentration camp experience.

I went into this, knowing it would be emotional, and it was, yet much different than what I expected. I feel like the writing style was a little too dry and to the point. The story itself is incredible, but I felt as though it could have used a little more finesse in its descriptions. The writing style wasn't that bland, but it did feel a little hurried and skimmed over in some parts that I felt deserved a little more emotion. Good read. 🤓

Such an incredible read that will surely stick with you even after you‘re finished. I fell in love with Lale and Gita, and I‘m so glad they found each other in the end. If you want to read about the Holocaust but are afraid because of all the graphic things that happened, I strongly recommend this book. There are still scenes that are haunting, but the author wrote them to be not as intense as other novels.

This was a really good historical fiction novel! I enjoyed reading the relationship between Lale and Gita. It can be a little tough to read in parts of the book for some people. But it isn't too gruesome, though. And I will say without any spoilers, it does end with a happy ending.
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#HistoricalFiction #Holocaust #NeverForget

My library hold of this came in today! 🤗

It was so tragic reading about the ordeals in Auschwitz. To find love in such conditions without knowing whether tomorrow exists must be so pure ❤️

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I absolutely loved, loved this book. I've read alot of books on this subject, but this one I will always remember.

I couldn‘t decide what to read next. I had read the summaries of at least three books but nothing was jumping out at me screaming, “READ ME!” Then I grabbed this one. I‘ve heard mixed reviews but I felt like this is the one I want to read next.

Book 7 of my temporary layoff.

It took me a few months of on and off reading for several factors. For one, it‘s a very tough subject and what was once a fascination as a kid with little experience and understanding of the world around me, it is now much harder for me to digest all at once the depravity that can so often exist in mankind. I have heard that some parts of this novel have been adjusted for its readability. Otherwise, this is a really good read. Get a tissue.

Enter to win a copy of the work of historical fiction based upon the experiences of Lale Sokolov, a man forced to tattoo numbers on the arms of his fellow prisoners in Auschwitz. Deeply disturbing, but full of hope & inspiration, it's one of so many stories that must be told & retold . . . so that we never forget. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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I'm rereading the tagged book. It's heartbreaking. I have no words. There are many alive today who believe it is "Jewish propaganda" something I've been told to my face and that I'm a "lying murderous jew". We can #neverforget and we must teach our children. This can never happen again. (I know I've been posting about the holocaust lately sorry if it upsets anyone my experiance hit me hard and It impacted me greatly)

#NEVERFORGET #NEVERAGAIN

This is a true story written in novel form about a Jewish man imprisoned at Auschwitz whose job was to tattoo all the new prisoners. While at Auschwitz, he fell in love with another prisoner and used his position to ingratiate himself with several guards and officials to protect himself and her. His actions are presented as simply a matter of survival. This novel is a haunting picture of love in the midst of death and unimaginable horror.

This book is great!! It‘s written well, the story is unbelievable and the history is telling. It pulled at my emotions a time of two knowing that it had actually happened. I felt like I was at war with them both

I wasn't aware that it is a fictionalized account of a true story until the end. I enjoyed the book, but I felt like there was something missing for me. What that something is I can't quite put my finger on.

Quick read for me. Intriguing and heartbreaking. It is unfathomable the cruelty of genocide. Stories like these are hard to read but they are a must. I can‘t believe that people exist who try to challenge the credibility of the holocaust and it‘s survivors.

Book #21

Until we have heard the story of each person who was hurt or killed in the Holocaust, we have not heard enough stories. We must always remember. This is a heartbreaking, fascinating story of suffering and survival. I wish the author was more adept at writing prose, but still the story is important.

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1. Bookstore 😍
2. Receiving the email that “A Man Called Ove” was in!
3. Most recently, the tagged book.
4. A Wrinkle in Time (overrated). Sorry 🙈
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Cozied up in front of the fireplace in cottage country this morning. Soon we will take a walk on the frozen lake! It is so beautiful and peaceful up here.

Feeling extremely grateful (and free!) as I read about the inhumane way these poor people were treated.

I really should be working but I wanted to finish this for book club tonight. So glad I did. I don‘t have the words to describe how I feel about it. 😢

Starting this one this cold, sunny morning ❤️

Vinny loves to cuddle with me while I‘m reading. #catsoflitsy

“Choosing to live is an act of defiance, a form of heroism.”

I started this book during lunch today... It is fascinating and I'm having trouble putting it down.. I'd recommend it and I've only read 50 pages so far.

I stayed up so late last night to finish this book, here‘s my wake up coffee this morning! Thanks for the suggestion @ReadingDownUnder It is amazing that this love story occurred amongst the horror. So many brave souls who would do anything to survive.

Too many other books started but this one looked so good I just had to start it.

Taking a short break from #Becoming to read this on this cold, snowy day.. After having visited the Holocaust museum in D.C. last winter, I'm drawn to reading stories like these. I just find it unimaginable that this is a true history that happened.... And not that long ago....#auschwitz #holocaust #remember

Heartbreaking, but a good read.

My first book of 2019 is finished. This book was sad, heart wrenching, and lovely. I highly recommend it.

A book based on a true story #popsugar2019challenge

I'm reading this so fast! It's so touching but so disheartening at the same time.

Second read of 2019

I had saved this book to read until our Christmas trip to Munich and Vienna. We went to Dachau while there. It was another level of reading comprehension to walk through the gates at Dachau ( Work will set you free) and read Lale‘s description of his camps and then walk around Dachau. Our trip to the memorial was the highlight of the whole trip for my teenage sons.

wait this is based on a true story??

I have had a horrible migraine today, no idea why, so we have had a very chill January 1 in Vienna today.

Very engaging. Had to read nearly non-stop. She‘s done a good job telling his story.

#unputdownable

I never tire of WWII historical fiction. This retelling of Lale Sokolov and his role as a Tattooist in Auschwitz is a fascinating story of survival. Lale Eisenberg is taken to Auschwitz but then is put in a position of Tattooist which in turn allows him to survive. While there he falls in love with Gita and the story of their lives in Birkenau and Auschwitz are reminders of how so many suffered at the hands of the Nazis.