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Annelies: A Novel | David R. Gillham
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Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#FALLING
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: ORANGE COVER

This book was VERY good.

My review of the book is here: https://tinyurl.com/52jr693u

Enjoy when you read it.

Eggs It‘s on my Litsy TBR!! 3d
SilversReviews @Eggs Enjoy!!!😉 3d
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thewallflower0707
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My first stop was #Amsterdam 🚲 and I enjoyed it SO MUCH. I went to the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum 🌻, id a walking tour, bought a Miffy, ate the best fries 🍟 in the universe and also went to this lovely bookstore, where they have a replica of the #TFIOS bank. Never forget your roots!

#holiday

TheBookHippie ♥️ 3mo
Amiable Love Amsterdam! Enjoy! 3mo
BarbaraBB Ooh my hometown! Glad you enjoyed being here! Which bookstore is this? 3mo
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jenniferw88
Tulip Fever | Deborah Moggach
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Birthday #bookhaul, featuring bookish puzzles!

Tamra Happy Birthday! 🎈🎈 6mo
Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 6mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 🎂🎈Happy Birthday!🎈🎂 6mo
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Chelsea.Poole Happy birthday! 6mo
AnnCrystal
🤩 Happy Birthday 🥳🎂🍰📚💝.
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BarbaraBB Happy birthday 🎉🎂 6mo
Suet624 Happy birthday!! 6mo
TheSpineView Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 6mo
TheLudicReader Happy birthday! 🎉 6mo
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Imagen_leigh
Girl in the Blue Coat | Monica Hesse
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I love historical fiction and am glad to find such a great read in the YA section! Reading through this novel I was hanging on every word wondering about this girl in the blue coat and how she disappeared. I‘d like to think that by reading these types of historical fiction, I will have an idea of what to do if I were in a similar situation. But, one can never know for sure what they would do in such rough and dangerous times.

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Deblovestoread
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#Bookrelated

Today‘s section in our #TreeADay reading. My question to you is if you have read the tagged book, any factual history or historical fiction set during WWII how you cannot see the parallels from that time to this? What is keeping you from recognizing how our freedoms are being taken away piece by piece? It is happening again and you are not only cheering for it you are praising God for it. God help us all.

Ruthiella I‘m currently reading Maus by Art Spiegelman and also see the pattern. Particularly in the swiftness. Laws and institutions will only hold up if we collectively support them. 8mo
Jess861 The Dutch Orphan was a very interesting book to read at this time. Some spoke up, others didn't as freedoms were slowly taken away. The parallels are scary. 8mo
Deblovestoread @Jess861 Stacked! Thanks for the recommendation. 🩷 8mo
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TheBookHippie I‘ve seen the replanted of this tree by the World Trade Center. I agree with your post… and am just making mine… 8mo
Soscha We‘re past the punch a Nazi in the face days. And days of not wanting to be friends with Russian oligarchs. 😒 (edited) 8mo
dabbe To add to your thoughts, you made me think of this allusion from my Book of Allusions:
•Bread and Circuses: This phrase was used by a writer during the time of the Roman Empire. He deplored the fact that the Imperial government was able to keep the populace content merely by distributing free food and providing entertainment spectacles, such as the fights in the Coliseum between people or between people and animals. ⬇️
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dabbe The writer declared that it was shameful that people could be so easily kept in line simply by receiving “bread and circuses“ from the government.

The term today refers to policies designed to PREVENT UNREST BY KEEPING PEOPLE HAPPY and thus DEFLECTING CONCERN about troubling issues.

How many dystopian novels show us that if you keep people quiet and happy (plugged in like F451), most will do NOTHING to save us all. #ranttime
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kspenmoll Thank you all for #ranttime Visiting the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was one of the most moving experiences of my life. 8mo
TheBookHippie @Jess861 I agree. 8mo
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JayBarb1027
Annelies: A Novel | David R. Gillham
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It was good but the ending wasn‘t super satisfying, it felt like a lot of loose ends, as well as Anne being quite whiny and ungrateful at times, it almost felt disrespectful to read at times.