Spies of the Midnight Sun: A True Story of WWII Heroes (World War Two Series, Book 3) | 
#12coloursofdecember Dec 16 Cranberry Red 10 points plus 1 #wintergames #merryreaders @Clwojick
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#12coloursofdecember Dec 16 Cranberry Red 10 points plus 1 #wintergames #merryreaders @Clwojick
Just finished this one. I‘m going to struggle with a review. Definitely a story that needs to be told about two women in the Norwegian resistance during Nazi occupation, but... the dialog is repetitive, unrealistic, & whoo! does he like writing the sex scenes. Worse, in the afterward he excoriates Norwegians for not doing enough to fight the Nazis. Having heard my mother-in-law‘s stories of occupation I know he is being grossly unfair. 😡
Monday night update:
✅ Finish Parable of the Sower and start Parable of the Talent #authoramonth
✅ Finish Spies of the Midnight Sun #readingeurope2020 #Norway
📖 Make headway in The Alps #Switzerland (I‘m on page 100)
📖 Read chapter 3 in Cleopatra #cleopatraalife (not started)
📖 Start a book for one of the remaining letters in the #litsyatoz challenge (not started)
#joysofjune #readathon @Andrew65
No no no! I won‘t tell you my super secret British spy boyfriend‘s name! Then she let‘s it slip (his real name is “Eddie,” emphasis mine) and the book‘s editors don‘t even catch that she let it slip. Eddie‘s code name is Fritz and Ishmael knows him as Fritz. Two sentences later she calls him Fritz, which is clearly what she was meant to say in the above dialog. Oops.
I like to be reading a hard copy book, an audiobook, and an ebook so I can pick my preferred format whenever I feel like reading
So tell me this, what weird world of coincidences led me to three spy books at the same time? All three are for challenges and this was not planned. Does this ever happen to you?
From top, clockwise, #readingeurope2020 #Norway, #authoramonth, #readingeurope2020 #VaticanCity
My husband‘s mother was a girl during the occupation of Norway and she told me many stories of those days. Her father, Ivar, was a firefighter in Bergen, routinely called to fires from Nazi bombs. She struggled to reconcile herself to the German tourists in Norway. I neglected to tell her about my rather deep German roots—although my most recent German immigrant settled in Texas when it was its own country. History is a living thing in us all.
My next ebook, which was free today, will work for #readingchallenge2020 #Norway. I have countless books about Norway and by Norwegian authors to choose from because, well, the husband is from Bergen and we visit the family there regularly. So I enjoy always learning about Norway. But this one was FREE today! Check it out if you‘re needing a book for Norway.
