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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4652.In_Our_Time?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="In Our Time" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1165447884m/4652.gif" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4652.In_Our_Time?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">In Our Time</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1455.Ernest_Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18673839?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>I have never enjoyed reading Hemingway more. Somehow I've gotten a fill of war reads lately, from Desert Storm to the Vietnam War to WWI and WWI to the battles of Julius Ceasar, the genocide in Rwanda, to the cruelties put upon the Navajo, and find that there is an infinite wealth of stories to be had around this part of life. Of course, the beauty of Hemingway is in the way you can fill in the holes with your own pictures, so reading him can be so deeply personal. At this moment, it was perfect for me. There is a story where a soldier comes home and can't readjust to his old life. His mother sits him down and reaches out to him again, but she certainly can't understand what he's been through and what he's seen. (Can any of us?) He tells her that he doesn't love her -- he doesn't love anybody -- not to be hurtful but, what, to try to open up about what he's become? Out of frustration that he's so removed from the experience of his own people? I didn't know but imagined it for myself, and the devastating scene of the mother hurt by his comments and his trying to make it okay and eventually doing so by lying -- I had to put the book down for a few moments. Great book. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/226426?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>