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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

Diane Ackerman

Finish date: March 2, 2017

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Mar 02, 2017 Emily rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017-mcls-a-z-challenge

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly, wobbly, time-y, wimey... stuff." -Dr. Who, "Blink"

Diane Ackerman gives us a broad view of the times that influenced Antonina Zabinski-the titular character. However, I often felt that I falling into or navigating through a "big ball of wibbly, wobbly, time-y, wimey stuff". Ackerman would be describing what happened to the Zoo in 1943 ...more

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Nov 08, 2017 Anne Brown rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017-popsugar

I don't know why I thought this was historical fiction when I picked it up, but I was glad to quickly find out that it is nonfiction about Antonina and Jan in real life. I thought from the description that the book would focus more on the Jews hiding in cages, when the author focused more on the "guests" that lived in the villa and only mentioned the others in empty zoo buildings (as opposed to cages) when someone was going to feed them. Apart from that, I was astonished by Jan and Antonina's br ...more

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