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This was an amazing read...
If you need action, danger, excitement, etc... this is the novel ‼️‼️
CLASSIC‼️‼️‼️ This novel can NEVER disappoint you... it’s worth a double read
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This is about Ernest Hemmingway’s marriage to his first of four wives
I found it absorbing...
Love Hemmingway! I’m gonna have to check this one out.click to expand
I always went for the 3rd fiesty wife he met during war. He settled with the 4th
Posted by Hamsthetics
Since you like Harry Potter 😛
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11099295-my-immortal
Thanks H 😀
I haven't read it.... YET... but am incredibly antsy to get my hands on it!
Posted by Argus
I haven't read it.... YET... but am incredibly antsy to get my hands on it!
Looks intriguing....thanks!
☯️🎑🎏🖖🏼
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Posted by nanobotz
I don’t like romance novels
I just picked up “The six wives of Henry VIII” by David Starkey. It’s massive, and I already know so much, but there’s bound to be more info I don’t know based on the sheer size of the book
I had to go with the male author because I heard the other versions are written by biased angry feminists. I’m looking for facts
Like yea, we all know Henry VIII was a misogynist and disposed of women at his leisure, but you can’t rewrite history with modern day feminist undertones
Anne Boleyn is one of my most favorite historical figures 💜
Your post made me feel nostalgic for my childhood. I have just remembered how my father once was in England and brought with him from there these souvenir chocolates with Henry VIII and his wives.
My bff is writing a great urban fantasy series!!! I’m reading the first book rn and it’s got me hooked! I love that each book has a Spotify playlist to listen to while reading which is so immersive—and the second book has some nerdy treats in it haha. If you like D&D, you might want to check out the series A Perfect Order by Drew Kientz!
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Posted by Wizardz_
For those with a lighthouse obsession 😅 @mystarsshine
I see this in the front window of the local bookshop all the time. I haven't read it but here are some reviews
Beautifully written and evocative, this is a mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. It kept me gripped throughout, and I didn't want it to end. Wonderful.' - S J Watson, bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
Outstanding. Literary and insanely gripping.' - India Knight
An intoxicating and beautifully written mystery about love and loss, as moving as it is suspenseful.' - C.L. Taylor, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Missing
'Compulsive, taut, and unforgettable. The Lamplighters is that rare book which is as exquisitely written as it is page-turning. I'm already telling everyone I know to read it.' - Lucy Clarke, author of The Sea Sisters
'A gorgeous page-turner that is at once a mystery and a novel about mysteries - about how we all write our own endings and suffer betrayals, but still light the lamps so the people we love can find their way home.' - Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat
'A beautifully written, utterly compelling tale.' - Jenny Colgan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe
'The Lamplighters transported me effortlessly to the mysterious Maiden Rock and life on the Cornish coast. Stonex creates a most engaging collection of voices and perspectives that unveil what happened in true pager-turner fashion, a mystery told through vivid prose that had me completely absorbed from start to finish. Haunting, harrowing and heartbreaking, this is a novel that will stay with you.' - Ashley Audrain, author of The Push
'A deeply atmospheric and utterly gripping mystery . . . Superb.' - Wyl Menmuir, Man Booker Prize longlisted author of The Many
'The Lamplighters took my breath away. A cracking mystery, perfectly plotted, and oh-so-beautifully written.' - Lucy Diamond
'Wise, beautiful and quietly devastating, The Lamplighters gets under the skin in a way that few books do. Weeks on from reading the last page, it still makes my heart ache.' - Kate Riordan, author of The Heat Wave
'The Lamplighters is one of the most magical books I've ever read. The writing is dazzlingly good. The mystery is uniquely crafted and utterly beguiling. And it's full of such tenderness and humanity and grace. I loved it with all my heart.' - Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers
'I can't remember when I last enjoyed a book this much. The Lamplighters is a compulsive, bewitching read. The sea and wind get into your bones, the riddle pulling you through the pages like a tide. Deftly written and atmospheric, I didn't want it to end. Brilliant.' - Tor Udall, author of A Thousand Paper Birds
Thank you!
“Bewitching”
Have to get it 😀
Earthlings, Sayaka MURATA
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.
Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?
The last third of this is wild.
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.
Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?
The last third of this is wild.
I'm enjoying this thread! I need ideas, too. "Memoirs of a Geisha" was a great book and I did read it twice.
Posted by SomPosted by nanobotz
I don’t like romance novels
I just picked up “The six wives of Henry VIII” by David Starkey. It’s massive, and I already know so much, but there’s bound to be more info I don’t know based on the sheer size of the book
I had to go with the male author because I heard the other versions are written by biased angry feminists. I’m looking for facts
Like yea, we all know Henry VIII was a misogynist and disposed of women at his leisure, but you can’t rewrite history with modern day feminist undertones
Anne Boleyn is one of my most favorite historical figures 💜
Your post made me feel nostalgic for my childhood. I have just remembered how my father once was in England and brought with him from there these souvenir chocolates with Henry VIII and his wives.
https://houseofdorchester.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/house-of-dorchester-slims-henry-viii.jpg<div class="bqfade">click to expand
why was anne of cleves singled out as the "fugly" one?
I think because he was disappointed when he met her in person. He had his portrait painter go and do her portrait and I guess the artist was very *kind* to her and painted her better than she looked. He also reported that she smelled bad. Ugh! No doubt so did he!
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I think because he was disappointed when he met her in person. He had his portrait painter go and do her portrait and I guess the artist was very *kind* to her and painted her better than she looked. He also reported that she smelled bad. Ugh! No doubt so did he!
Insta-Filter anno 1530ies ....smh. 🤦♀️😂
How could we as humans take such a fall from grace (e.g. egyptian/greek/roman antiquity) and just crawl back down the ladder of enlightenment. Still baffled.
Next on my TBR ..i´m a real sucker for character studies
The Door, Magda Szabó
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and with a flagrant disregard for her employer's opinions she may even be crazy. She allows no-one to set foot inside her house; she masks herself with a veil and is equally guarded about her personal life. And yet Emerence is revered as much as she is feared. As the story progresses her energy and passion to help becomes clear, extinguishing any doubts arising out of her bizarre behaviour. A stylishly told tale which recounts a strange relationship built up over 20 years between a writer and her housekeeper. After an unpromising and caustic start benign feelings develop and ultimately the writer benefits from what becomes an inseparable relationship. Simultaneously we learn Emerence's tragic past which is revealed in snapshots throughout the book
Mrs. March, Virginia Feito
In this astonishing debut, the venerable but gossipy New York literary scene is twisted into a claustrophobic fun house of paranoia, horror, and wickedly dark humor. George March’s latest novel is a smash. No one is prouder than Mrs. March, his doting wife. But one morning, the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that his protagonist is based on Mrs. March herself: “But . . . ―isn't she . . .’ Mrs. March leaned in and in almost a whisper said, ‘a whore?” Clutching her ostrich-leather pocketbook, she flees, that one casual remark destroying her belief that she knew everything about her husband―as well as herself. Suddenly, Mrs. March is hurled into a harrowing journey that builds to near psychosis, one that begins merely within the pages of a book but may uncover both a killer and the long-buried secrets of her past.
The Door, Magda Szabó
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and with a flagrant disregard for her employer's opinions she may even be crazy. She allows no-one to set foot inside her house; she masks herself with a veil and is equally guarded about her personal life. And yet Emerence is revered as much as she is feared. As the story progresses her energy and passion to help becomes clear, extinguishing any doubts arising out of her bizarre behaviour. A stylishly told tale which recounts a strange relationship built up over 20 years between a writer and her housekeeper. After an unpromising and caustic start benign feelings develop and ultimately the writer benefits from what becomes an inseparable relationship. Simultaneously we learn Emerence's tragic past which is revealed in snapshots throughout the book
Mrs. March, Virginia Feito
In this astonishing debut, the venerable but gossipy New York literary scene is twisted into a claustrophobic fun house of paranoia, horror, and wickedly dark humor. George March’s latest novel is a smash. No one is prouder than Mrs. March, his doting wife. But one morning, the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that his protagonist is based on Mrs. March herself: “But . . . ―isn't she . . .’ Mrs. March leaned in and in almost a whisper said, ‘a whore?” Clutching her ostrich-leather pocketbook, she flees, that one casual remark destroying her belief that she knew everything about her husband―as well as herself. Suddenly, Mrs. March is hurled into a harrowing journey that builds to near psychosis, one that begins merely within the pages of a book but may uncover both a killer and the long-buried secrets of her past.
LOVE this thread 💜
A bit of a poetry writer myself and
One of my favorite poets is Sagawa Chika, def in the top spot on my list. I find her unique style of poetry mesmerizing.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Collected_Poems_of_Chika_Sagawa.html?id=fxHxDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&redir_esc=y
A bit of a poetry writer myself and
One of my favorite poets is Sagawa Chika, def in the top spot on my list. I find her unique style of poetry mesmerizing.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Collected_Poems_of_Chika_Sagawa.html?id=fxHxDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&redir_esc=y
@MyStarsShine ....saw this and thought it might be up your alley ....
Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreign city when a chance encounter intertwines their fates. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit—someone who shares their insatiable curiosity, who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Only days later, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short.
But this is only one of the many connections they share. Like satellites trapped in orbit around each other, Thora and Santi are destined to meet again: as a teacher and prodigy student; a caretaker and dying patient; a cynic and a believer. In numerous lives they become friends, colleagues, lovers, and enemies. But as blurred memories and strange patterns compound, Thora and Santi come to a shocking revelation—they must discover the truth of their mysterious attachment before their many lives come to one, final end.
Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreign city when a chance encounter intertwines their fates. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit—someone who shares their insatiable curiosity, who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Only days later, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short.
But this is only one of the many connections they share. Like satellites trapped in orbit around each other, Thora and Santi are destined to meet again: as a teacher and prodigy student; a caretaker and dying patient; a cynic and a believer. In numerous lives they become friends, colleagues, lovers, and enemies. But as blurred memories and strange patterns compound, Thora and Santi come to a shocking revelation—they must discover the truth of their mysterious attachment before their many lives come to one, final end.
SUM, by David Eagleman
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.
In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence.
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.
In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence.
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Love and Betrayal by Tim Parks
the cover is a huge injustice ....just saying.
There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un’occhio (turn a blind eye). In all areas of public life – community, education, employment – your connections are everything.
From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and Italian Ways, Italian Life is a particular reckoning with a beloved adopted country. It takes place in a university in the north. Valeria, a talented young woman from hot, dusty Basilicata, enrols together with thousands of others for a degree course that could take anything between three and ten years to complete, given the vagaries of the system. She has sacrificed a great deal to get here. However, as both Valeria and her rich supporting cast of students and professors will soon discover, there are dark and capricious forces at the institution’s heart.
Unfolding into a story of power and corruption, influence and exclusion, Tim Parks’ compelling new book shows that an education is about understanding the workings of a society – in this case one where family, culture and innovation are shadowed by nepotism, bureaucracy and intrigue. Thought-provoking, surprising and always entertaining, Italian Life is a behind-the-scenes look at a paradoxical country: a gripping account of how Italy actually happens.
the cover is a huge injustice ....just saying.
There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un’occhio (turn a blind eye). In all areas of public life – community, education, employment – your connections are everything.
From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and Italian Ways, Italian Life is a particular reckoning with a beloved adopted country. It takes place in a university in the north. Valeria, a talented young woman from hot, dusty Basilicata, enrols together with thousands of others for a degree course that could take anything between three and ten years to complete, given the vagaries of the system. She has sacrificed a great deal to get here. However, as both Valeria and her rich supporting cast of students and professors will soon discover, there are dark and capricious forces at the institution’s heart.
Unfolding into a story of power and corruption, influence and exclusion, Tim Parks’ compelling new book shows that an education is about understanding the workings of a society – in this case one where family, culture and innovation are shadowed by nepotism, bureaucracy and intrigue. Thought-provoking, surprising and always entertaining, Italian Life is a behind-the-scenes look at a paradoxical country: a gripping account of how Italy actually happens.
Posted by Tetka_Iz_Daleka
@MyStarsShine ....saw this and thought it might be up your alley ....
Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreign city when a chance encounter intertwines their fates. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit—someone who shares their insatiable curiosity, who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Only days later, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short.
But this is only one of the many connections they share. Like satellites trapped in orbit around each other, Thora and Santi are destined to meet again: as a teacher and prodigy student; a caretaker and dying patient; a cynic and a believer. In numerous lives they become friends, colleagues, lovers, and enemies. But as blurred memories and strange patterns compound, Thora and Santi come to a shocking revelation—they must discover the truth of their mysterious attachment before their many lives come to one, final end.
Oh thank you Nem, this looks very interesting ... will put on my list 🤗
How are you and yours? 💚
Achingly good
Left a huge imprint on my soft and tender❤️
@ScorpioDreams try read this if possible...would love to hear your take on it
Left a huge imprint on my soft and tender❤️
@ScorpioDreams try read this if possible...would love to hear your take on it
The Mother Wound
By Amani Haydar
By Amani Haydar
*~Enchanting~*
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The Fisherman by John Langan.
This book is so good. If you love horror and or anything lovecraftian, you'll love this. Easily one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Very macabre and super disturbing.
This book is so good. If you love horror and or anything lovecraftian, you'll love this. Easily one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Very macabre and super disturbing.
Posted by Seajatt
The Fisherman by John Langan.
This book is so good. If you love horror and or anything lovecraftian, you'll love this. Easily one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Very macabre and super disturbing.
😱
Posted by Seajatt
The Fisherman by John Langan.
This book is so good. If you love horror and or anything lovecraftian, you'll love this. Easily one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Very macabre and super disturbing.
@Seajatt did you see the film “The Lighthouse”?
Posted by HamstheticsPosted by MyStarsShine
*~Enchanting~*
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On my reading list for many years...click to expand
Lovely book H, very moving ❤️
Posted by MyStarsShinePosted by Seajatt
The Fisherman by John Langan.
This book is so good. If you love horror and or anything lovecraftian, you'll love this. Easily one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Very macabre and super disturbing.
@Seajatt did you see the film “The Lighthouse”?click to expand
I did and I loved it. I thought it was a unique take on a shop-worn trope. Its uniqueness made me think of 'It Follows,' also a really unique movie to come out in recent years.
If you're a fan of Stephen King then it's worth mentioning that he drew heavily from lovecraft and a lot of King's antagonists are directly lovecraftian. Randall Flag from the 'The Stand' is a good example.
Posted by SeajattPosted by MyStarsShinePosted by Seajatt
The Fisherman by John Langan.
This book is so good. If you love horror and or anything lovecraftian, you'll love this. Easily one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Very macabre and super disturbing.
@Seajatt did you see the film “The Lighthouse”?
I did and I loved it. I thought it was a unique take on a shop-worn trope. Its uniqueness made me think of 'It Follows,' also a really unique movie to come out in recent years.
If you're a fan of Stephen King then it's worth mentioning that he drew heavily from lovecraft and a lot of King's antagonists are directly lovecraftian. Randall Flag from the 'The Stand' is a good example.click to expand
Yes unique, the kind of film that stays with you!
first classic of 2022 ....
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith (illustrated by the latter, too). publ. in 1888-1889
Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. Try as he might, he cannot avoid life's embarrassing mishaps. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing figure of Pooter, the Grossmiths created an immortal comic character and a superb satire on the snobberies of middle-class suburbia - one which also sends up late Victorian crazes for spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody.
10/10 would recommend. hilarious. i never expected an old ham of a book like this to be so funny.
you can also get it for free over the gutenberg project.
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith (illustrated by the latter, too). publ. in 1888-1889
Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. Try as he might, he cannot avoid life's embarrassing mishaps. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing figure of Pooter, the Grossmiths created an immortal comic character and a superb satire on the snobberies of middle-class suburbia - one which also sends up late Victorian crazes for spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody.
10/10 would recommend. hilarious. i never expected an old ham of a book like this to be so funny.
you can also get it for free over the gutenberg project.
not the cover i initially wanted; but oh well ....loving her vibe! such beautiful and lush language.
Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children.
In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in. After Adem abandons his family, Iskender, the eldest son, must step in and become the one who will not let any shame come to the family name. And when Pembe begins a chaste affair with a man named Elias, Iskender will discover that you could love someone with all your heart and yet be ready to hurt them.
Honour is a powerful, gripping exploration of guilt and innocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the trials of the immigrant, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tear families apart.
An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become "Death" for the next millennium. By training the boy in the ways of death and dying, Reaper grooms his young apprentice and through suspenseful and horror-laced events, he unknowingly gives Sonny something he never intended: Something to live for.
Beautiful quotes at the start of every chapter ...from shakespeare, to frost to plath. great illustrations; albeit too little ....then again it´s a novel ...not a graphic novel.
love this gem!
🖤🤍 10/10
this was hands down, a cover-buy. which i try not to do so much these days. but no regrets.
it´s odd how you find the books you need or vice versa ...? never was on my radar. it was the last one, too.
not too far in; but i´m really intrigued so far.
love how she describes people being born from either a bird egg; a fish egg or a bear egg. each of these "tribes" come with their pros and contras ofc. what one lacks the other has. and how they try to maneuver through life ...while i was reading that i thought of the elements in astrology ....interesting. and how she describes that every person´s home/appartment has a designated smell ...very particular to the inhabitant.
can´t wait to dive deeper this evening.
Posted by Tetka_Iz_Daleka
An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become "Death" for the next millennium. By training the boy in the ways of death and dying, Reaper grooms his young apprentice and through suspenseful and horror-laced events, he unknowingly gives Sonny something he never intended: Something to live for.
Beautiful quotes at the start of every chapter ...from shakespeare, to frost to plath. great illustrations; albeit too little ....then again it´s a novel ...not a graphic novel.
love this gem!
🖤🤍 10/10
just a little quote that stuck with me ...
"What does gratitude feel like? Yes, yes I understand there are feelings of happiness with it, or reprieve. But, what does it really feel like? Is it the feeling of walking through the valley of the shadow of death, and coming out the other side? Like water within fire?
Or like the touch of a parent, when you only have one left?"
left me thinking for days on end ....this whole reading experience.
Posted by ImperfectStorm
Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Will Meet in Heaven (both by Mitch Albom)
love tuesdays with morrie.
this was a rare exception of crying while reading.
sad and wholesome at the same time.
Alice's Book : How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau, and her older son, having emigrated to the United States, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis.
Returning to the ruins of Vienna in the late 1940s, she discovers that her bestselling cookbook has been published under someone else's name. Now, eighty years later, the historian Karina Urbach - Alice's granddaughter - sets out to uncover the truth behind the stolen cookbook, and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime, of a woman who, with her unwavering passion for cooking, survived the horror and losses of the Holocaust to begin a new life in America.
Impeccably researched and incredibly moving, Alice's Book sheds light on an untold chapter in the history of Nazi crimes against Jewish authors.
5/5 stars!
Posted by saggurl88
Oh i love the way she writes, so warm and endearing. I bought the first one before the one above...”it ends with us”
Have you read the Slammed and Hopeless series? ...i just love the characters ❤️
Posted by MyStarsShinePosted by saggurl88
Oh i love the way she writes, so warm and endearing. I bought the first one before the one above...”it ends with us”
Have you read the Slammed and Hopeless series? ...i just love the characters ❤️click to expand
No, I used to read a lot when I was a teenager, not so much as an adult because if work and little time.
Posted by saggurl88Posted by MyStarsShinePosted by saggurl88
Oh i love the way she writes, so warm and endearing. I bought the first one before the one above...”it ends with us”
Have you read the Slammed and Hopeless series? ...i just love the characters ❤️
No, I used to read a lot when I was a teenager, not so much as an adult because if work and little time.click to expand
Well when you’ve the time 😊
Ive started to go to bed earlier to read....book, music, salt lamp and wind howling outside...pure bliss 😍
True story 😮
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My closest work friend is a Scorp
We often take lunch together, gossip, vent, talk personal shit, etc
Friday while I was out sick, our boss called a meeting and made a major announcement about one of our execs retiring and one of my other co-workers wh
And yeah, you can take it from your own experiences just from the guys you've seen about and met over the years.
In my opinion, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio guys 100%. From who I've seen and met.
and I'm just posting this for fun and entertainment, so please
They make a lot of threats and self-promote themselves as being vengeful throughout the internet but I look at situations like Jorge Masvidal vs. Kamaru Usman fights and also how often Leos just tool the poor souls, it makes me wonder.
When they said all
1. my wife and i have been married since october now. i've attempted to get my stuff situated this whole time so we can move to canada together. no matter how many different places i've tried to get my birth certificate i cannot. had to get an entirely ne
Met this woman online about more than a month I guess, online because of covid and lock down(Europe 🇪🇺) we started talking, everyday, and I have to she charmed me. After that I had to travel to another country, it's vital for me, anyways. But then after I
What the hell?! Hi Scorpio friends out there please enlighten me because this makes no damn sense!
My ex and I are both ScorpioS and we broke up 2yrs ago. He contacted me October2020 to catch up. He apologized for the problems we had during relationsh
How much does it make your blood boil knowing that Mars is exalted in Capricorn and not your sign?
How do I break the on-again, off-again cycle with the Scorpio? He has decided he is gone-again. It's truly draining.
I have 3 wonderful boisterous babies. Virgo, Aries and Scorpio (after all my prayers for a Cancer baby), and I believe I spoil them rotten. I really need the self-discipline to stand my ground and refuse them. Help!!!
All bark no bite
Literally all content on the web written about Scorpios is written by Scorpios with no life that want to hype up their own sign
Emotionally unstable, garbage at planning, chronic underachievers, and sh*t themselves when push comes to sh
Do Scorpios enjoy random phone calls? An old Scorpio work friend called me up out of the blue, just to catch up and congratulate me for getting a new team at work. Said he was happy for me. We had a good platonic conversation which was completely unexpect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCm-L62FEbk
No need to get explicit! Just name the sign and if you wish specify the gender. Alright I'll go first:
Scorpio (male)
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“I’m not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I’m definitely an individual.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
Or they can forget each other easily?
Experiences, can you share any love story of scorpio scorpio.
@ScorpioDreams
This is about Ernest Hemmingway’s marriage to his first of four wives
I found it absorbing...