Litsy

An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris

“Major Picquart to see the Minister of War…”
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

A novel about the historical Dreyfus Affair, late 1890s France, in which a Jewish officer in the French army was (knowingly) wrongly convicted of treason and sent to Devil‘s Island. Picquart was the officer who came to believe in his innocence.

3 likes

merelybookish

Break of Day | Colette, Enid McLeod

The joy of the second-hand book. 😆 Up till now it's been a few little X's in the margin.

TheBookHippie Oh dear… 9h

dabbe Whoah. 😳 If it were highlighted in yellow it would look like my accounting book in college. 🤣 9h

Susanita Someone was bored in class? 9h

See All 6 Comments

OrangeMooseReads Were they breaking down the sentences? No need to circle like madperson! lol 8h

sarahbarnes 😆😆😆 7h

AlaMich wtf??😳 now

29 likes6 comments

kspenmoll

The Vanished Collection: Fun with Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Colors, and Animals! | Pauline Baer de Perignon

pick

“I started this research in a very unfocused way, looking at it from every possible angle…Really my method was I had no method. (113)
The author‘s great grandfather was a Parisian fine art collector whose apartment was seized by the Nazis in 1942.She pursues her family‘s legacy starting with just a small list of paintings.Her journey send her across Europe to museums,archives,& institutions in an attempt to establish provenance & reclaim 🔽

kspenmoll 🔼 Her family‘s legacy. Her family‘s wartime experience-deportation, resistance fighters,army men, the women in the shadows at home- was never spoken of or shared with succeeding generations. One unexpected discovery leads to a multitude of others. It is up to the author to give voice to their newly mined family history & break the silence. (edited) 10h

43 likes1 stack add1 comment

DebinHawaii

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted: A Novel | Bridget Asher

#FeelinTheLove

I just realized I used this same book I read & reviewed in 2011 for a similar prompt 5 years ago! 😂 Oh well… it‘s a good one for a #BrokenHeart 💔

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💔💔 9h

30 likes1 comment

charl08

A Woman's Story | Annie Ernaux

Tomorrow, it will be three weeks since the funeral. It was only the day before yesterday that I overcame the fear of writing 'My mother died' on a blank sheet of paper...

Suet624 Oh, Annie… 2d

BarbaraBB Wow what a quote. Stacking. 2d

charl08 @Suet624 @BarbaraBB I want to read everything. All her work. 2d

BarbaraBB I loved

The Young Man

49 likes2 stack adds4 comments

vlwelser

Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism | Sebastian Smee

pick

This is basically a history about French chaos and Berthe Morisot with a bit of Manet. She's an icon and I'm glad I took a break from (paused) my fantasy trend to give her some of my headspace.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2d

40 likes1 stack add1 comment

JenlovesJT47

Les Miserables (Movie Tie-In): (Movie Tie-In) | Victor Hugo

Ok this is my 1st time posting while I #ReadLesMis — please tell me I‘m not the only one feeling this way reading today‘s chapter! 😤 People are so cruel and despicable. Poor Fantine.

TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie People are unbelievably cruel. I saw it often being a volunteer doula for teens for 28 years. 3d

lil1inblue Fantine broke my heart in the musical - I Dreamed a Dream made my heart ache. Her story in the book is so much more devastating. 💔 3d

TheBookHippie
@Cuilin @lillinblue @dabbe @librarybelle @quietjenn
@Andrew65 @JenlovesJT47
@MatchlessMarie
@Dieareader @tpixie
@julieclair @Deblovestoread
@Gleefulreader @DRachel
@DrSabrinaMoldenReads
@Pageshifter 3d

See All 11 Comments

Cuilin Yes I‘m feeling all the😠 3d

tpixie Yes! Poor Fantine! 🥹🥺😢 3d

Deblovestoread Today's chapter was hard. Just heartbreaking. 💔 2d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Yea. That had me all in the feels 2d

JenlovesJT47 @TheBookHippie @lil1inblue @Cuilin @tpixie @Deblovestoread @DrSabrinaMoldenReads glad I‘m not alone! I really know nothing about this story other than the names of the main characters (saw the first 20 minutes of the movie 😳), so I‘m really looking forward to reading the rest of this. I read 5 extra chapters today 😬. Poor Fantine. The tooth thing makes me irrationally angry 😤 2d

TheBookHippie @JenlovesJT47 it‘s so unbearably sad. 2d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads There are heartwarming events to come. That‘s what I have begun to love about the book. Capturing life's complexities @tpixie @TheBookHippie @Cuilin @dabbe @Deblovestoread (edited) 1d

JenlovesJT47 @DrSabrinaMoldenReads yay I‘m glad to hear it! 🤗 1d

47 likes11 comments

sam-reads

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel | Anthony Doerr

Page 48 / printed copy

7 likes

sam-reads

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel | Anthony Doerr

pick

„All The Light We Cannot See“ by Anthony Doerr is a beautiful story set in tragic times weaving together the lives of a sheltered blind French girl and a German orphan boy.

The main characters' emotions and decisions in the book polarise. They navigate the moral complexities of WW2 and it‘s definitely not an easy read with the weight of that era‘s tragedies.
The ending was deeply touching, though I felt it lingered a bit too long.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

6 likes