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why did i wait so long to read this one?! holy buckets, amazing. i've read a lot of wwii books, but not much from this perspective. i never realized how terribly the french suffered. terrifying in the current political climate. i hope that i would be as brave as these women in action and not just in heart.
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Weeping. Unabashedly. My heart was broken into ten thousand pieces...and pasted back together again.
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The writing was absorbing. This absolutely didn't feel like a 550+ page book because the details were exquisite but not too much.
The author did an excellent job of showing how the scale slides as circumstances change regarding choices and the gray area of morality (would you save someone else's child if it meant risking your own?) Both Isabelle's outspokenness and Vianne's naiveté frustrated and angered me at times but I understood Vianne's position, just keeping your head down and waiting for t ...more
The author did an excellent job of showing how the scale slides as circumstances change regarding choices and the gray area of morality (would you save someone else's child if it meant risking your own?) Both Isabelle's outspokenness and Vianne's naiveté frustrated and angered me at times but I understood Vianne's position, just keeping your head down and waiting for t ...more
My first and only Kristin Hannah book so far was Winter Garden, a beautiful and heart-wrenching story of a mother during the siege of Leningrad. And, now that she has returned to a World War II setting, I couldn't wait to read her newest novel, The Nightingale. This time she told the story of French sisters who both in their own ways worked for the resistance in France during the war. One sister was a mother doing what she had to to survive, including taking in her Jewish best friend's son, bill
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Dual timeline book, mostly set during WWII, about two sisters, their father, and their roles in the war.
I would say 4.5 but I am going to round up. Really enjoyed the strength of the female characters. Filled with turmoil, struggle and a little romance during a time of war. I was sucked in from the start. It's another WWII book (there are a lot out there) but this was uniquely from the perspective of people living in France that were not Jewish and how they tried to help save their friends and family. Would definitely recommend it.
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unexpectedly forced thought on who we want to be vs, what were capable of doing. the historical accounts a harrowing alone, but out fears about what the near future brings makes it all relevant. who would be? what lengths to go for love? basic humanitarian response? what do good people owe other people? religion versus insanity ?you will be asking yourself who you would be and what you would do to resist but maintain family safety,
I absolutely LOVED this book! I could not put it down. I am in a small book club. We read 13 chapters the first week and then planned on reading the next 13 chapters for the following week, but we just finished the entire book instead because it was just so good!
Wow, just wow! Close up look at the hardships and horrors of war. Love stories in there, too.
Wow, just wow. One of the best books I've read in a while
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