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It‘s not unexpected for a book set in #Paris during WW2 to have a #sadending but to say more would be a spoiler. #aboutabook

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I remember wanting to read this when it first came out in 2007 but never got around to it until I I saw this in a free pile of books at the library. I grabbed some ice coffee and muffin at the cafe by the library went outside to the balcony to read. Well, I never moved from that spot for four hours until I finished it. It was that good. I‘m only sorry that I didn‘t read it sooner! Very well written and executed. A MUST read!

Another one of those “everyone-has-read-this-book-but-me” books. It‘s my June #doublespin and it‘ll give me my first bingo in ages!

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#Key #ArtfulAugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

What a touching ending. 💕

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Prompt: Amelie

This book is somewhere between okay and good. What makes it lean toward good is history learning; what makes it lean toward okay is some of the descriptions of emotion feel artificial.
A historical fiction, in my view, always offer something worth reading.

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A journalist living in Paris starts to write an article about the deportation of French Jews in 1942. What seems to be just an ordinary task will change the course of her life...

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Apart from the ending which was flat,I liked the book very much.Anything during the 2nd world war is always difficult to read.Sarah's story, although fictional,still felt very real, it felt something like that might have happened and it was heart breaking.The atrocities, the sufferings is really difficult to imagine.

The more I read this, the more I get this feeling of dread that something horrible is about to happen!!!

Not going to give anything away but this particular part broke my heart, I cried a little too.
Book is set in France, 1942 and nothing ever good comes from that period in Europe. The inhumanity of it, the brutality of it is just so heart breaking.
I am only halfway through but I would highly recommend it!!!

Day 12 #12booksof2020 @Andrew65
This one will stay with me forever—HF based on actual events. There is a movie by same name that is well done. Kristin Scott Thomas is incredible as the protagonist

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel‘ d‘Hiv‘ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Based on actual events, this book is powerful - #energetic present day journalist Julia retraces Sarah‘s journey
#france #fallfinds #wordsofoctober

#3books #atthebottomofmytbr

Some very old titles I hope to get to one day.

#3Books #thatmademecry

The first three that comes to mind where the crying wasn‘t pretty at all! Ugly cries all the way. 💔

Vel d'hiv was a French bicycle stadium where thousands of Jewish women and children were gathered by the French police before being sent to concentration camps and ultimately Auschwitz.
This book is about one such child, Sarah, how when the police rounded up at her house one early morning, she locked her baby brother in a cupboard, in the hope that she would come back to rescue him soon.

A slow burning novel for me - it quietly grew on me, especially after the narrative shifted exclusively to present day. I saw the movie years ago and so knew the tragic story in the novel, but yet it was still heartbreaking and haunting. A great commemoration of an event hardly spoken of, or at least at the time of this publication.

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Books that are important to me #day5

This book holds a place in my heart, not because of the book itself, but of the people it brought me to.
When I left the UK to move to Fort Lauderdale 15 yrs ago, I left behind all my friends and family. I joined a bookclub to meet new people, and this was the first book we discussed. Those women are now nothing less than family. 💕
If you want to join in this challenge, consider yourself tagged!

This one put my emotions in a blender. You can come scrap me off the floor anytime. Between Sarah‘s heartbreaking past and Julia‘s arduous task of unraveling that past. There is instanced in history that should not be forgotten so they are not repeated.

Going to the way back of my TBR pile for this second weekend of sheltering in place. Hope you all are staying safe out there! #shelterinplace #flattenthecurve #tbrpile

This book was heart-wrenching. I knew it was going to be sad, it's about the holocaust and that's part of the territory. But I had no idea what I had signed up for. Still, it was a great book. I loved it and will recommend it in a heart beat. I decided to read it because of a podcast I've been listening called 3 Book Girls. They discuss the books they've read over the week. They are hilarious, amazing, and real.

#99ponkindle - one of today‘s offers.
A good read.

I'm going to say so-so to this book. It was all good til I got into the pages of 250, then it slid down hill. I found this book wasn't so much about Sarah but about the character named Julia and her personal problems with her husband.

While it highlights a dark and sad period in France‘s history during WWll (that I definitely want to read more about), I found this book to be just okay. The writing was simple and character development shallow, and not at all the tear jerker I was expecting (and hoping!) it would be. ⭐️⭐️ #Booked2020 #FinishInADay #ReadingEurope2020 #France 🇫🇷#LitsyAtoZ #abecedarianTBR #S #PopSugar2020 #SetInACityThatHostedTheOlympics #Paris

Beautifully written...Sensitive subject matter given a modern life. The author researched the story through a piece of history and then created a story based on fact but pure fiction. Sarah‘s story is haunting. I can see how Julia‘s tunnel vision to dig up as much as she could to learn and have the story told was all consuming. She was a little selfish about it at times . I liked the full circle moment at the end .

I‘ve wanted to read this for a long time and I‘m glad I‘ve finally gotten around to doing so. Such a powerful story. It really puts into perspective how a lot of people really don‘t know enough about the horrors of world war 2. I loved the ending, it made my heart feel all warm. Absolutely recommend❤️

Loved, loved, loved this book! Historical fiction and mystery and possibly a tiny dose of romance. so happy I finally read this book that has been on my TBR stack for almost 2 years! Book 12 of #14Books14Weeks 😁

The best book I‘ve ever read!

New book and new bird. I am blowing through this. The chapters are so short. I‘m trying to take my time, given the subject matter. A lot of picking up and putting down.

For me this paled in comparison to the many wonderful, descriptive, moving options out there for WW2 historical fiction. Something about the super simple sentences and descriptions really turned me off, which is a shame because the story itself had promise. I mostly just found myself wishing it had been written by Kristin Hannah instead.

Have you read this book? Am I missing something? I'm not usually this far off base with popular opinion.

This was another good one! It was sad, but it was a quick easy read. I didn‘t know about the roundup that happened in Paris so I feel like I learned something about the time period too.

#manicmonday @JoScho

📘 Sarah's Key
🎥 Key Witness that starred Dennis Hopper is an old movie you younger folks may not remember.
🎶 Lock and Key by Rush

#ManicMonday @JoScho 📒tagged book #InfiniteTissueRead 🎞Baby Driver 🎵 Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood - it‘s in the lyrics 🎶 I dug my key into the side Of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive / l carved my name into his leather seats / I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights…

We have a huge stack of SARAH‘S KEY in the back room. Plus I turn it down at least once every time I‘m on the trade counter. Plus I have personally thrown away several junky copies of it. WHY are there so many copies of this book trying to come to Bookmans?? 🤣 Was it that terrible? Did they just print too big of a press run? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Have any of you read it? #behindthescenesatbookmans

Such a beautiful but tragic story.

What to do after crappy afternoon in work: pick a new book off the pile, have a long bath, get in bed. Read said book and have a cathartic cry 😢 it went with the mood.
Sad book, but a great, engrossing read where I learned new things again.
Thanks Caroline 😘

Thank you Sara and Caroline 😁😁 looking forward to these books! My daughter wants to read The Heavy Bear too Sara, she likes quirky books.
Thank you for another lovely bookmark Caroline and more HP stuff and I love your comments on the review mags, they‘re worth waiting for in themselves!
Lovely #litsybookmail ❤️💜

This book has stuck with me. For years after I‘ve read it. I got the movie out from the library and not even 2 minutes in my stomach was turning over. I just couldn‘t bring myself to watch it. Anyone else better able to handle difficult books than movies??

Starting this new fictional journey from my tbr basket on a beautiful Sunday day. #Florida #fiction #booklover

This is the book that came to mind for the prompt #ringofkeys . It‘s a key, but unfortunately it‘s not on a ring 🤷🏼‍♀️ All that I had in my arsenal! #musicalnewyear

#musicalnewyear #ringofkeys
Yes I‘m a notorious#crybaby but this book! There are a couple of scenes that gave me a proper #uglycry !

But this book also has a special place in my heart. When I moved to the US (10 yrs ago) I knew no-one but my hubby‘s family. I missed my friends terribly. So I joined an IRL bookclub, and met the most amazing women, many of whom I now call family. And now I run it too! This was the first book I read with them.💕

Two timelines and history fiction, so basically made for me.

I absolutely loved this book! It was heartbreaking and I‘ll never forget it. I had never heard of the Vel d‘Hiv roundup. de Rosnay did such a wonderful job in telling this tragic story through Sarah‘s eyes.

I loved this book so much. It really got a hold of my heart and I think I‘ll forever remember it forever.

Two books from my shelves which feature #keys in the title and the plot. #newhogwartsadventure @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Beautiful, fascinating, heartbreaking story set in #Paris during WWII. #Augustisatrip