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Jun 22, 2014
Peg
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it was amazing
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This was such an amazing read that I'm really surprised I had never heard of it before picking it up. It's the diary of an Englishwoman married to a wealthy Italian and their lives in Tuscany during World War II. It relates her daily activities and thoughts as she cares for her family, for dozens of refugee children, and her neighbors as fascism topples and the fighting approaches and then sweeps over them all. She communicates everything with tremendous empathy for everyone around her but witho
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I learned of this book via this post: https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2023...
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I had to read this for school and I thought it was really good. Now I have to write a 10 page analysis of "her take" on the war and how I could use this book to teach about WWII. we'll see how I feel about it once I finish that...
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Jan 04, 2019
Deedee
marked it as to-read
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