I love it.
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This was difficult to read because of the horrible acts described, but it is important to know this history.
pickThis was difficult to read because of the horrible acts described, but it is important to know this history.
Some really great books this month.
I think the In Memoriam is pretty much perfection, I checked it out from the library originally, but have ordered a copy from Blackwells (I like the UK cover better than the US one)
Ordinary Human Failings, In Defence of the Act, and And Then She Fell were some of my top Women's Prize for Fiction books this year (along with Brotherless Night from last month)
I also really enjoyed How To Say Babylon.
pick5⭐ for the devastation.
I knew about 10 pages in that this book was going to wreck me. A beautiful but brutal book about war and love. Winn's writing and storytelling is so gorgeous there were multiple times I read a sentence that stopped me in my tracks due to how heartbreakingly it was.
This will be a top book of the year I loved everything about it.
Gaunt hears Ellwood quoting poetry to a boy in his room. The boy does not even know what the words are from.
"He [Gaunt] knew the lines Ellwood had quoted. They were from Shakespeare's Sonnet 20. Ellwood had written them in pencil on the wall above Gaunt's bed, and Gaunt had hoped they meant something."
40 pages in and I can tell this book is going to destroy me.
pickGaunt and Elwood meet at boarding school. Gaunt taciturn, a boxer. Elwood beautiful, a poet. They adore each other but will not say it. Then the First World War happens and their lives split and collide. Did I need another book about WWI? I did not. Do I like First World War poetry? I do not. Did I love this book anyway? I did indeed. The most beautiful story of hidden love, friendship, privilege and class.
pick4.5 ⭐
Erik Larson writes well researched books. When I read a book that he has written I know that I am going to get well researched, well written book that will transport me to whatever the year or years the book includes. I can vividly see myself there.
#nomfiction #history #bookspinbingo #readaway2024 #audiobook #alphabetchallenge2024 (D)
140,000 Chinese men formed the French & British Chinese Labor Corps during WWI. The British headquarters were in Noyelles-Sur-Mer, France because it was by a railroad line as well as near a forest, which was an important source of timber. During & after the war, these men repaired railway lines, tanks, cleaned up battlefields, dead bodies, and the rubble from devastated towns. #NeverForget #LitsyBookClub
This is an amazing book narrated by a horse named Joey during WWI. Joey does different jobs and ends up traveling a lot during the course of the war. It touches on some hard topics and has some truly sad scenes, but it also has a happy ending.
#MiddleGrade #MiddleGradeMonday #WWI #MsDsLibrary
