How it Works: Every Tuesday I’ll be sharing a “bite” of a
book I’m currently reading. Just a two or three sentences from a page I’ve
already read that I feel gives a little insight to the feel of the book or
something I found interesting up to that point along with the page that it
comes from and the total number of pages in the book. I’ll also share a quick
preview opinion of it as a whole to that point. If you want to join in the fun
and share your current reads please leave it in the comments or link to your
site.
The Book: The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank (The
Definitive Edition); edited by Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by
Susan Massotty
Book Bite: “Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland
on their way to German cities, to sew their bombs on German soil. Every hour
hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of people are being killed in Russia and
Africa. No one can keep out of the conflict, the entire world is at war, and
even though the Allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.” pg
80/338
My Thoughts So Far: I picked this up the other day after
realizing that I had somehow never read it before. So far I’m only about nine
months into the journal and it’s been interesting to see how going into hiding
has affected the chatty 13 year old and her family and hearing her perspective
on the Germans and war and life in general during that awful time. It’s hard to
conceive of such hatred and sadness and what it would have been like to have to
live in those conditions.
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