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Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Start date: June 1, 2011

Finish date: August 31, 2011

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May 20, 2011 Amy rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, busy-as-a-bee-books-group, _own-ebook, read-in-2012

I wish I'd read this one earlier! I've had it sitting on my Nook but just didn't feel like it looked particularly interesting! Boy, was I wrong! This is a gem of a book that you don't want to miss out on!

It tells an amazing story about an event in history that I didn't know anything about - Stalin's reign of terror in Lithuania during WW2! this book is so many things - fascinating, sad, wonderful and smart! The main character, Lina, is such a wonderful and complex character. She comes alive in ...more

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Aug 19, 2011 Carly Svamvour rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Aug 26th - just started listening. Heavy stuff. Can't help but wonder how people could be so horribly cruel.

Aug 27th - finished it all. Nearly shelved it - figured oh no - not another holocaust thing. But I hung in there - it was worth listening to it all. A real survival account and told well.

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May 18, 2011 Michelle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bee-shelf, read-in-2011, audio-book

This is a well written story about survival in the toughest conditions imaginable. This book is an easy to read work of historical fiction, although the subject matter is tough to take emotionally. I listened to half the book on MP3 audio and read the other half. The narrator of the audio was OK. I am not a big audio book person though.

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