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crystalclear read my mind!

The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian

February 7, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Way back in the olden days of 2020, the amazing crystalclear sent some inspired picks my way for CBR Book Exchange. Hooray! I kicked off the new year with one of their thoughtful additions to my TBR pile; I had wanted to read Storm Front for some time thanks to the lovely folks here at CBR. The other book, The Light in the Ruins, was a book with which I was unfamiliar. I was immediately excited and impressed after reading the cover copy, as I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: allied invasion, Antiquities, art, Book Exchange 2020, chris bohjalian, crime, CrystalClear, historical fiction, Italian Resistance, murder, Occupied Italy, revenge, World War Two, WWII

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: allied invasion, Antiquities, art, Book Exchange 2020, chris bohjalian, crime, CrystalClear, historical fiction, Italian Resistance, murder, Occupied Italy, revenge, World War Two, WWII ·
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“Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators …. But they don’t carry it the way victims do.“

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker

August 3, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr12bingo Shelfie This graphic novel geared toward young readers is an eye opening first hand account of the Takei family’s experience in the US’s Japanese internment camps during WWII. World renowned actor George Takei relates his childhood memories of being uprooted and shipped across the country with his family and reveals his subsequent struggle to come to terms with the injustice and trauma of those years. Even though many of us may have heard about the camps before (thanks in part to the hard work […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novel/Comic, Young Adult Tagged With: #memoir, cbr12, cbr12bingo, ElCicco, george takei, George Takei, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker, Graphic Novel, Harmony Becker, Japanese Internment Camps, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, they called us enemy, WWII

ElCicco's CBR12 Review No:32 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novel/Comic, Young Adult · Tags: #memoir, cbr12, cbr12bingo, ElCicco, george takei, George Takei, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker, Graphic Novel, Harmony Becker, Japanese Internment Camps, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, they called us enemy, WWII ·
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Lady Spies Rule

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

May 29, 2020 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

I grabbed this book during my last in-person visit to the library where I was panic grabbing books to stock up prior to the closure. I’ve been a big fan of Reese’s book club and dove back to the beginning: this was the second of her picks (I had already read and enjoyed her first pick, “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.” This book was interesting but took a lot for me to get through, which I think was a combo of it’s hard to focus […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Kate Quinn, lady spies, reese witherspoon book club, The Alice Network, WWI, WWII

ardaigle's CBR12 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Kate Quinn, lady spies, reese witherspoon book club, The Alice Network, WWI, WWII ·
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A Stiff Upper Lip and a Blind Eye

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

May 17, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Oh, Mr. Stevens. A tragic hero if ever there was one. As a butler to a great house of Britain, he kept his eyes to the floor while the ravages of post-WWI Europe came to a boiling point in the halls of his dear Darlington Hall. Kazuo Ishiguro is a master of quiet suffering. His characters come to slow, stark, and utterly devastating conclusions just a moment before the enormity of their despair hits the reader. The Remains of the Day is arguably  his most celebrated […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Booker prize, classics, facism, film adaptation, great britain, historical fiction, Kazuo Ishiguro, landed gentry, merchany ivory production, post war europe, unrequited love, WWI, WWII

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Booker prize, classics, facism, film adaptation, great britain, historical fiction, Kazuo Ishiguro, landed gentry, merchany ivory production, post war europe, unrequited love, WWI, WWII ·
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A Different Focus for WWII

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings

March 6, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

This book is on the Army Chief of Staff Reading List so I read it when it became available. I’ve read a lot of WWII both in my life and in over the last few years. As this is professional reading, I suppose the kind way to phrase it is that I am over-saturated with WWII at the moment. I was a history major in college, I’m in the military, and my father was described by John Mulaney this week on SNL – he is […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Germany, Japan, Max Hastings, Nazi, Soviet Union, WWII

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Germany, Japan, Max Hastings, Nazi, Soviet Union, WWII ·
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