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A beautiful but sad story about this couple who lost contact during the war. They will meet again but in special circumstances and you will see that encounter in the first chapter. Then, the story goes to the past to know how Lanka and Josef met and what happened to them. It is emotionally intense. Reading about Prague and Terezin made me remind my visit to those places a couple of years ago. 4⭐️

#ItTakesAllKinds Day 10 #AboutMarriage

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. 👇🏻

#AutumnPlease
#Lost

❤️

📚 tagged 💗
📚 Lisa Jewell
📚 Law and Order
📚 Lizzo
📚 Let Her Go (Passenger)

#ManicMonday on Tuesday!!
#LetterL

#KissingDay #JulyJam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

3 favorites: #ClassicLoveStory #ItHadToBeYou @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of my favorites ❤️

#LoveLost
#Ithadtobeyou

It doesn‘t seem right to describe a book set partially in Terezin and describing the horrors of the Holocaust as gentle, yet that is the best descriptor of the love story that is at the heart of this novel. Beautifully written, it doesn‘t gloss over the inhumane situation, but guides you through without allowing you to turn away. Highly recommend. Picture is a drawing of Prague that hangs on our wall; you‘ll understand why I chose it if you read.

“I often wonder if it‘s the curse of old age, to feel young in your heart while your body betrays you.”

Right now, I can‘t think of any statement more apt.

I couldn‘t spend the weekend at my son and DIL‘s and not borrow a book from their library. I haven‘t read an Alyson Richman in a while, plus Prague! You all know how I feel about that city. 😊 I looked at the cover and knew exactly where this is.

#BeginsWith #Lost January 2nd

All waiting to be read on my Kindle.

A beautiful story introduced to me by the inimitable @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗📚😭

#NationalKissDay #julyjourneys

Starting my #bookspin early this month! I‘m using this as my book set in East Europe/Russia in The Book Girls Guide Reading Around the World Challenge. If the first chapter is any indication, I‘m going to love this one! @TheAromaofBooks

Excited about my #bookspin and #doublespin picks this month...they couldn‘t be more different! 🤣

Thanks for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks

Day 13 - #AlysonRichman
#AugustAuthors
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

I‘ve not read #AlysonRichman but this is her highest rated book on Goodreads (4.22) so think I might look at Reading this.
#AugustAuthors

Day 13 - #AlysonRichman #AugustAuthors

I own The Lost Wife and The Last Van Gogh but haven‘t read them yet.

“If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”

One of my favorites ❤️❤️❤️

#LostLoves
#BiblioMAYnia

#Dreams
#MagicalMay

Probably my 3rd favorite book after The Velvet Hours and The Nightingale ❤️❤️

#7days7books that left a lasting impression

Day 6

Absolutely phenomenal. One of the best and so so so so beautifully written. I love how the author goes back-and-forth from past to present and it‘s such a beautiful love story

#lost

#newyearnewyou

❤️this author

@EadieB THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! What a beautiful Christmas surprise on my doorstep. How sweet of you. I can‘t wait to read it. 🎄♥️🎄📚📚 #JingleBallers #ChristmasSurprises #thankyou

I missed a satisfying conclusion: the beginning of the book revealed the answer, but I had hoped the ending would hold more. Sadly, it did not. And the writing style makes it hard getting into to the book, as a love story it failed with deepness and engagement. But still - a good book!

Hold my head inside your hands
I need someone who understands
I need someone, someone who hears
For you, I've waited all these years🎶

Lenka and Josef💕😢💕

#tilkingdomcome #julycoldplay

“There was also something about the smell of bookshops that was strangely comforting to her. She wondered if it was the scent of ink and paper, or the perfume of binding, string, and glue. Maybe it was the scent of knowledge. Information. Thoughts and ideas. Poetry and love. All of it bound into one perfect, calm place.”

#Lost
#JulyColdPlay

This is one of my most favorite books ever!!! ❤️❤️💗

Just a few #1940s books plucked from my home bookshelf. Can you tell WWII era settings are my jam? #letstraveljuly

I'm the love that you've looked for, come with me, and escape 🎶

Josef and Lenka typify the ardor and urgency of first love; and when they are separated by the Nazi invasion, their plan to escape together crumbles...

(Escape)#ifyoulikepinacoladas #songsofsummer @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Beautiful story💗💗

#lovelost #jazzyjune @Eggs

*Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.
JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again*

“And a lovestruck Romeo, he sang the streets of serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
He says something like, "You and me, babe, how about it?”
#romeoandjuliet #marchintothe70s

"I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine." Song of Solomon 6: 3
The richness and serendipity of this novel is incomparable. After reading this and The Velvet Hours, I find myself in an Alyson Richman literary coma....I'll be thinking of these for a long time

#tbrshelfie #literaryluck @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Reorganized the shelves this week-I counted 90+ tbrs, plus at least 10 on the kindle. The shelf tbrs are mostly gifts (Christmas, bday, etc) or from my brother's library

The top 2 I've read and loved, the bottom 3 are on the TBR. #wife
#ANewChapter @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of my favorites!! I promote this one every chance I get!

Two young lovers separated by the Nazi invasion and reunited many years later by a chance encounter...

😭❤️😭❤️

#Wife
#ANewChapter

Part two of two, 2018 favorites

“He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.
Is that the first sign of love?
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.”

#Adventrecommends
Day 6

Wish I had time to read this one again !! ❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭

One of my all time favorites!! 💗💗💗💗

#lost
#NoFemmeber

I love this verse. I‘m at Anthony‘s poker night at the bar and just opened up my brand new book to this. I always sneak notes into his work pants pockets and recently, this verse was one of my notes. I‘m excited to dig into this book! ❤️

My #bookmail for today. The bottom two I need for a class I‘m teaching in the fall, and The Lost Wife because I couldn‘t resist. #teachersoflitsy #professorsoflitsy

Beautiful. Although I wished the ending was a little longer. Thanks for the recommendation @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ?

"I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action... Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burned into baking asphalt."

Been super busy with so many things but I'm hoping I can start this tonight or tomorrow 🤞

#Kiss
#PrinceofJuly

One of my favorite books 💜💜💜

#Wellbetogether
#JuneItsElectrifying

One of my favorites ❤️

#Hello 👋🏻 it‘s me Lenka!! I‘m still alive after all these years!! Their lives were shattered by the Nazi invasion and then a chance encounter brings them back to each other!! One of my favorite books!! 💗💗💗💗

#AdelesMayMashup

Please excuse the mess in the background (such is my life!), but I have to say thank you to @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for the wonderful #bookmail ❤❤ I can't wait for the Buddy Read! And The Lost Wife looks so good!! I'm truly lucky to have a sweet friend like you 😙

#lostandfound
#MagicalMarch
This is one of my top 5 favorite books!! The story of Josef and Lenka being separated by the war and then given another chance many years later... 😭😭😭 Yes, that‘s ugly crying!!!

#Soulmate
#Heartsandhardcovers
I thought of Lenka and Josef for this prompt... They fell in love, married and were then torn apart by the Nazi invasion... Josef believes Lenka died in the war, but then a chance encounter decades later gives them one more chance... I cried like a baby!! 😭😭😭

Simultaneously, I can‘t put this book down and it‘s hard for me to read as Lenka or Josef could be my grandparents.
I‘m going to need a light, fun and easy read to get over this one. Any suggestions?
#recommendsday
#wwii #ww2 #jewish

I definitely think these are three #underrated books!! That are three of my favorites of all time!! If you haven‘t read them and you like this genre add them to your list!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

#Newyearreads

4 of my favorite books!!!! Definitely plan to #reread these at some point!!! 💞💞💞

#NewYearReads

A borrow from the library. Set in Prague during the Holocaust...family, loss, life in concentration camps, and lost love. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.