Weekly Book Update 5-21-24
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Great Bibliophile Therapy this week! sorry about the rough intro it's hard for me express how much I appreciate everyone's support! #books #recommended #novel #literature #scifi #fantasy #comics #news #headlines #politics #opinion #weekly #horrorstories #tbr
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Just read Tarzan from your recommendation. Very fun read! Way more action packed than I expected.
im so happy you liked it. It's crazy how simple yet well written the action is. i always forget to mention tarzan's for-head scar that flames up when he fights, and his famous battle cry ahhhhhh ahhhh ahhh
We are also real people 😂🏰 but i get what you meant ! I just finished Claire North's "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August". I really enjoyed it but the ending was a bit frustrating and i don't know if it was just me getting that out of the ending or if it was intended by the author (and I can understand if it was).
On the topic of France during the Occupation, there was indeed a great deal of collaboration on the part of the government, but also on the part of ordinary French citizens who denounced Jews like it happened to the author of the book. The French resistance was very much in the minority, which makes their actions all the more courageous and commendable in my eyes. Sometimes it was also a question of survival: during his childhood, my grandfather and his mother had to share their house with a group of SS during several months. They had installed an MG42 machine gun at one of the window of the family home. After the war, the wife of one of the SS men asked my great-grandmother to write a letter testifying to the man's respectable behavior towards her family during the occupation of her home, so that this could potentially have an effect at his trial. The man was apparently the one who held the other SS in place, so my great-grandmother agreed to write the letter (today, we don't really know what happened during the house occupation, nor do we know about the fate of the man during his trial).
On the other side of my family, my grandmother, who was barely a teenager at the time of the occupation, had to traffic meat on the black market using her bicycle to feed her family and in particular her 4 brothers, all younger than her.
I'm not sure how interesting it was, but I'm glad to have been able to share a bit of my family's history during the occupation of France.
ooo i never heard of 'the first 15" looks interesting and old enough for me to get a cheap copy.
thanks for not taking my 'Real life' comment out of line context, i love the comments i get from my real life digital Friends
Thanks for sharing your family history, i find it fascinating. I wish i would have talked to my Grandma more about her history. So many lost stories 😭🏰
@@PoorPersonsBookReviewer I hope you will find it and enjoy it.
I'm glad you found my family history interesting. I share the same regret as you. It is maybe hard to find the importance and value of it before it is sadly lost. But the most important thing that still remains is the memory of the heart.
Very cool you got to go to a film festival! Did you get to see anything really good?
Nice mug, that is neat you won.
You are really digging deep into the classics lately!
All the short films I saw were very good but the hands down winner was “dream creep” by Carlos Lopez.
I’m really enjoying reading what inspired the great writers of today. I got my eye on war and peace next
Seems like a good week for you all in all. Siddhartha flew over my head a bit, it was interesting but not my kind of read. I hope Gormenghast works out for you! It's so weird and unusual, you can honestly never tell what your experience will be like until you try it.
A lot of these war stories and narratives never quite manage to capture the fact that the majority of people simply go along with the flow to try and live as comfortable a life as they can re: the Nazis and nationalism, and the French's acceptance of the Occupation (have you seen Inglorious Basterds? Great movie and kind of touches on some of it).
The country next to Venezuela they're prepping to invade is Guyana, that's where I'm from actually before I moved to Canada :)
Siddhartha did have a lot of deeper meanings that im sure i didnt even realize i was missing, but with such a short book, it packed a punch.
Im very excited to start Gormenghast, thanks again for putting it on my radar.
Inglorious Basterds is one of those movies that ive never seen in full only bits and pieces, but from what i saw it was pretty good. So crazy how history forms and the lies we tell.
Sorry for not remembering Guyana's name, i hope your family and loved ones are safe. Good idea skipping america and just going to Canada.
@@PoorPersonsBookReviewer No worries, for now it's just saber rattling. But very unlikely it's going to end well either direction it goes.