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Last WWII reads of 2022: book recommendations
Don’t let the title picture fool you into thinking that this is a travel blog about Paris. However, 2 out of today’s book recommendations are set (partly) in Paris, and 1 of them is about visitors and habitants of the Ritz hotel in Paris during WWI, WWII and in the 1960s. Let the Ritz hotel be at the Place Vendome, which is depicted here. Don’t let the title picture fool you into thinking that this is a travel blog about Paris. However, 2 out of today’s book recommendations are set (partly) in Paris, and 1 of them is about visitors and habitants of the Ritz hotel in Paris during WWI,…
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WWII reads: December
Since my last blog, I read some romance novels but I always return to some WWII reads as well, certainly when the romance becomes a bit too cheesy and makes me a bit melancholic. The first weekend of December I picked “The keeper of happy endings” by Barbara Davis. (https://www.amazon.com/Keeper-Happy-Endings-Barbara-Davis-ebook/dp/B08X48G5VL/ref=sr_1_7?crid=2K42FJD1V5HL7&keywords=barbara+davis+kindle&qid=1639512956&sprefix=barbara+dav%2Caps%2C250&sr=8-7)In this book, we meet Aurora (Rory) whose fiance Hux went missing during a mission with Doctors Without Borders. Rory is trying to function in daily life and trying to be good enough for her mother. However, in appeasing her mother, she might lose herself. So when one day when she passes an empty building she senses that this might be…
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Book recommendations: WWII reads part 3
Unfortunately, my posting schedule has been bungled up again. So thank you for sticking with me until I finally will figure this blog writing out. I probably should write more drafts and then clean them up when I need and want to publish them, instead of keeping these ideas in my head. A while ago I read both: The girl from Venice by Siobhan Daiko: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Venice-Girls-Italian-Resistance-ebook/dp/B093SRRM5D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Z05AIS8JY9H1&keywords=the+girl+from+venice+siobhan&qid=1636135553&sprefix=the+girl+from+veni%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1 The things we leave unfinished by Rebecca Yarros: https://www.amazon.com/Things-We-Leave-Unfinished-ebook/dp/B087VXZYMM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TCU0LXYKV1ML&keywords=the+things+we+leave+unfinished+by+rebecca+yarros&qid=1636135689&sprefix=the+things+we+le%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-1 Both are about a (great)granddaughter who learns more about what their (great)grandmother did or experienced during WWII. I don’t want to give away too much of the story, but you can find more on Goodreads or Amazon…
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International Literacy Day
This post was to go up on, or before September 8th for “International Literacy Day”. How many to do-lists I write, not all of these things get done. This is the area in my life where my “rebel” tendency as Gretchen Rubin describes in her book “the four tendencies” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33566873-the-four-tendencies?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Ep8j4HirOo&rank=1) is really pronounced. I don’t know if there is a relation between this tendency and the enneagram type 5, but that’s were books come in. For me books can be as much an escape as ways to gain information. However being able (to learn) to read is such a valuable skill, it doesn’t only help you to navigate in an…
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Quarantine reads
While World War II ended 75 years ago, this COVID 19 pandemic may feel like war for some people. We can only leave home to buy necessities or go for a walk, jog, bike ride to clear our head. There is no limit on distance for these last activities here in Belgium. But this cabin fever and the images of hoarding and even fighting in some supermarkets is enough for some to draw the parallel with curfews and food shortages during the war. However there are no bombs falling, no people are rounded up and send to concentration camps and we don’t need food stamps for our necessities. So to…
