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Reading this book is kind of like watching Titanic. You know the boat sinks, so to speak. Throughout the book, and especially at the end, I recalled my visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Images seen and stories learned there came flooding back. It was a very hard place to visit, and in the end you walk away with shame and abhorrence for what one man can do to another, and also a strong sense of hope because you realize how much the human spirit can endure in spite of brutality. Ann
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I was never required to read this book in high school so just getting around to it now.
Amazing. What an authentic and relatable depiction of what it's like to grow up, from the point of view of one who's in the midst of it. The hope and joy, the future goals and desires of love, the emotional highs and lows, the relationship between father and daughter, the silliness as well as the slow-growing maturity that's only beginning to form, the trivial squabbles and minor interests, all cast in a sorr ...more
Amazing. What an authentic and relatable depiction of what it's like to grow up, from the point of view of one who's in the midst of it. The hope and joy, the future goals and desires of love, the emotional highs and lows, the relationship between father and daughter, the silliness as well as the slow-growing maturity that's only beginning to form, the trivial squabbles and minor interests, all cast in a sorr ...more
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