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My February stats. Proud Shoes was the highest ranked, but the tagged book is so important right now.

You won‘t want to put it down.

We hear the story of Audrey and Kate - 1939 and 2010 as they meet for the first time and learn of each other‘s lives.

Fictionalized story line based on a real person.

A story about loyalty, friendship, and doing what you know is right.

Historical fiction and women‘s fiction fans will adore this book. 5/5

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⭐️⭐️The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather Marshall⭐️⭐️

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⭐️I love how this story unfolds

⭐️Great dual timelines

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I liked this book. It told a different story about WWII that I didn't know about. The people in this book were great. I rated this book a 3 out of 5 stars.

Beautiful writing, without any sensationalism or exaggeration, telling what it was like to live through 1943 & 44 in Italy, first far enough from the fighting to be considered a safe place to evacuate children, then literally the front lines. Fleeing at a moments notice, on foot, with 4 infants, 23 children under 10, and various adults. Dealing with partisans, fascists and Germans, all armed, all wanting to take whatever food, clothes etc.

My library haul for today. I was there for the tagged book, which came in as a hold, but I grabbed a few others. The “blind date with a book“ ones had been set up for Christmas, and I felt bad that so many had been left unborrowed, so I scooped up any that were fantasy/SF.

They were Raymond E. Feist's King of Ashes, Karen Lord's The Blue Beautiful World, and Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad, which I miiiight have already read, I'll have to check.

Rome in May of 1943. Would that I can be that sanguine!

First library #Bookhaul of the year. Two holds, two finds, two buys. The tagged book sounded interesting (one of the finds). 📚

“They confuse manliness with brutality” Sigrid Schultz in reference to Goering and the Nazis

This is my current read. My husband asked me if it‘s not too depressing to read. I replied that it‘s deeply sad, but what depresses me now is the current situation in my country (USA). I‘m reading this book as the history it is.