Hello everyone, welcome to March! The spring is slowly (very slowly) inching closer. I can’t wait. To make the frozen hours of February more enjoyable, I passed the time reading and finishing two books, which I thought I would share about.
Book #1: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
I always feel weird giving reviews concerning classics, since they have been around forever. Northanger Abbey was the first book published by Jane Austen. It isn’t my favorite book by her, but it is interesting to see her style progress.
The book’s heroine is Catherine Moreland and the story follows her on her visits to Bath and Northanger Abbey and documents her love triangles and friendships made there. I didn’t connect with Catherine or her love interest like some of Austen’s other heroines, but it is still a charming and at times funny story.
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Book #2: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
This book is sad, disturbingly sad. It is supposed to be that way, since it is about the holocaust. But still, when I finished reading it, I curled up in a ball on the bed and had to have Danny hug me for 20 minutes to help me feel better. I can see why the author wrote the book the way he did, but still it is a rough one to read.
The story is told through the eyes of an 8-year-old German boy named Bruno. Bruno has to leave his home in Berlin with his family, because his father, who is a commander in the German Army, is put in charge a concentration camp. While exploring, Bruno meets a boy in “striped pajamas” on the other side of the fence and befriends him. The book is interesting told through the eyes of child who is trying to understand the injustices of war. But as mentioned before, it is heartbreaking what Bruno discovers.
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oh we watched the boy in the striped pajamas movie. worst movie ever! it seriously made me depressed, it was soooo sad. i can imagine the book was just as sad. i did not like the ending at all.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas but I did see the movie and it is no fairy tale. The ending left me feeling mortified and sick to my stomach but I suppose that is the point of the story so the author succeeded in his intentions. Sad stuff.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like the movie ends like the book, because it made me sick to my stomach as well.
ReplyDeleteI just read The Zoo Keeper's Wife which is a true account of the Warsaw Poland Zoo and how this family hid escaping Jews in their zoo during WW II. It too was sad, but your book even sounds harder to read.
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