Great news. I'm glad you liked that book. For book club like 5 years ago we had a list of Holocaust related books and all read different ones and talked about them. I read this one, and The Hiding Place and loved them both.
The Holocaust Museum is AMAZING. There is a special section of it geared just toward children, since the rest of it is so graphic and heavy, but the children's section is very, very well done. I would totally go again with you! Name the time my friend!
I also love the Holocaust Museum. Totally heartwrenching, but something everyone should see. The amazing thing- the architect of the building was actually a holocaust survivor and built the building to resemble the sites he saw while he was imprisoned. He also has really terrible parkinsons when he designed the building (he was one of the top 25 people of the year or something the year the museum was opened.. can't believe I still remember).
You aren't losing the reading bug, it is just you aren't in the mood to read all books- all the time. I'm still trying to get through Life of Pi and it has takend over a year- I pick it up and put it down almost every month- but I know one of these times it will catch my interest. So I set it aside and start something else.
Oh, I loved this book. I've reread it a few times too. I'm sure AK will like it too.
Liz P.S. do you remember me? found your blog off of Jenny's blog. So fun to see your cute, cute family!! Congrats on your upcoming move! We are moving too, to CT just outside NYC.
I've never read that book, but it's always there in the back of my mind. Jeremy and I went to the Holocaust Museum a few years ago and found it so horrific and, strangely, inspiring at the same time.
I'm glad you haven't fallen into the trap of thinking that you have to finish a book once you've started it. I have and the idea can be a real slave driver! I like to mix my nonfiction with historical fiction, like the Killer Angels or The President's Lady or The Widow of the South. The historical fiction kind of fuels me up and makes me want to forge ahead with something that's more like dry history. Of course, not all nonfiction books are dry, and some historical fiction is. So I guess the point is that if a book doesn't grab you, another might. Just read what grabs you. There's enough books out there that you'll never run out!
I haven't read that book yet, but I want to. I too loved The Hiding Place, I bet you would like it too. I love that you're going to read it with AK. Maybe I should read it with Max.
10:31 PM
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That book is amazing i read it when i was in the 5th Grade ( Last Year) I also went to the Holocaust Museum with my gradmother. It was very emotional. We also visited the ann Frank house in Amsterdam a few years ago.
9:08 PM
[Image] # the stars. i had been reading this book by Cokie Roberts, Founding Mothers, but found myself losing a little bit of my reading spark. So this weekend I went to my personal Library. and picked up a new book to read. Number the Stars by Lois Lawry. I think it is a book for 5th graders but I was thrilled Jill added to my libray gift. I finished it last night. What a great book. I am going to start it again this weekend with AK. i think it will be a great way to teach her a few things before we go to the Holocaust Museuem in D.C. (which is one of the first places I want to go when we get there. I have not been there since it has been there) {Favorite Quote from the book} "I think that is not true," Uncle Henrik said. "I think you are like your mama, and like your papa, and like me. Frightened, but determined, and if the time came to be brave, I am quite sure you would be very, very brave. But, it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything. Neither do I. We know only what we need to know."
So now on to my Killer Angels book about the Civil War. I am so excited! I started a new album in our smugmug page for the books our family has read this year.
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Great news. I'm glad you liked that book. For book club like 5 years ago we had a list of Holocaust related books and all read different ones and talked about them. I read this one, and The Hiding Place and loved them both.
11:29 AM
The Holocaust Museum is AMAZING. There is a special section of it geared just toward children, since the rest of it is so graphic and heavy, but the children's section is very, very well done. I would totally go again with you! Name the time my friend!
11:31 AM
I also love the Holocaust Museum. Totally heartwrenching, but something everyone should see. The amazing thing- the architect of the building was actually a holocaust survivor and built the building to resemble the sites he saw while he was imprisoned. He also has really terrible parkinsons when he designed the building (he was one of the top 25 people of the year or something the year the museum was opened.. can't believe I still remember).
You aren't losing the reading bug, it is just you aren't in the mood to read all books- all the time. I'm still trying to get through Life of Pi and it has takend over a year- I pick it up and put it down almost every month- but I know one of these times it will catch my interest. So I set it aside and start something else.
12:32 PM
Oh, I loved this book. I've reread it a few times too. I'm sure AK will like it too.
Liz
P.S. do you remember me? found your blog off of Jenny's blog. So fun to see your cute, cute family!! Congrats on your upcoming move! We are moving too, to CT just outside NYC.
4:59 PM
I've never read that book, but it's always there in the back of my mind. Jeremy and I went to the Holocaust Museum a few years ago and found it so horrific and, strangely, inspiring at the same time.
I'm glad you haven't fallen into the trap of thinking that you have to finish a book once you've started it. I have and the idea can be a real slave driver! I like to mix my nonfiction with historical fiction, like the Killer Angels or The President's Lady or The Widow of the South. The historical fiction kind of fuels me up and makes me want to forge ahead with something that's more like dry history. Of course, not all nonfiction books are dry, and some historical fiction is. So I guess the point is that if a book doesn't grab you, another might. Just read what grabs you. There's enough books out there that you'll never run out!
7:27 PM
I haven't read that book yet, but I want to. I too loved The Hiding Place, I bet you would like it too. I love that you're going to read it with AK. Maybe I should read it with Max.
10:31 PM
That book is amazing i read it when i was in the 5th Grade ( Last Year) I also went to the Holocaust Museum with my gradmother. It was very emotional. We also visited the ann Frank house in Amsterdam a few years ago.
9:08 PM