My To Be Read list is super long so I could probably do this list multiple times :) All of these books, I've only read the synopsis on goodreads, nothing else
That one was pretty tough for me because as a librarian I've read a lot of them but I wanted to highlight that because I'm pretty against banning books :)
At one point in my life, I was very interested in Holocaust history. I was in DC when the Holocaust Museum opened, and when I was student teaching they were doing all they could to help with lesson plans. Oregon right now is considering making the Holocaust mandatory in elementary education.
I don't know if I can read "Three Minutes in Poland" nowadays. For some reason, I've become more sensitive to the plights. The sheer magnitude of loss. I might see if there is a documentary and put it on in the background and just listen to it. I watched "Labyrinth of Lies" (an amazing movie) and it was hard enough to get through the infuriating emotions of how the Germans nearly got away with their Nazi past, even in the years closest after the war.
I didn't realize Brideshead Revisited was on the Banned Book List but I guess it wasn't 'acceptable' at the time it was written and published due to the implied homosexuality. I saw the TV adaption so many years ago but have never read the book. Another book set aroudn the same period is Maurice by E. M. Forster. The description: A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond.
1. A Banned book (I have heard the music from the movie for this but only because a figure skater used it and I loved it)
Brideshead Revisited
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30933.Brideshead_Revisited?ac=1&from_search=true
2. First in the Series
The Sleepwalkers (Willi Kraus, #1)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8413921-the-sleepwalkers
3. A memoir
Once A Dancer
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34040.Once_a_Dancer
4. A New Book
Where the Light Enters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43881773-where-the-light-enters
5. A Romance
No Prince Charming (Secrets of Stone #1)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38510387-no-prince-charming
6. One Word title
Annelies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38721012-annelies
7. A Book by a Female author
Lost Roses
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40988979-lost-roses
8. A Book with a blue cover
Hidden Among the Stars
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38918179-hidden-among-the-stars
9. A Book Set in Another Country
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613824-three-minutes-in-poland
10. A War Memoir
I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/777047.I_Was_A_Doctor_In_Auschwitz
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I don't know if I can read "Three Minutes in Poland" nowadays. For some reason, I've become more sensitive to the plights. The sheer magnitude of loss. I might see if there is a documentary and put it on in the background and just listen to it. I watched "Labyrinth of Lies" (an amazing movie) and it was hard enough to get through the infuriating emotions of how the Germans nearly got away with their Nazi past, even in the years closest after the war.
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For me, I still get sad but I more get angry. Angry that the US knew what was going on and yet did almost absolutely nothing to help.
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