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"Again Jobs dissolved into tears during one of their arguments over the issue" - Page 84.

And this was when he was in his 20s. Apparently Jobs could be quite childish at times.

Mandela is one of the greatest movies I ever watched...

I just realised. Out of the 300+ books in my shelves, I only own less than 10 of them. The rest are mostly borrowed from the neighbourhood library. Ah, the joys of living in America!

From pg 141: "a bitter, profound sense of melancholy [is] like the taste that stays in your mouth after you drink cheap wine."

Somehow I can relate to this when I reminisce on my bitter, yet not-so-distant past.

From pg 141: "a bitter, profound sense of melancholy [is] like the taste that stays in your mouth after you drink cheap wine."

Somehow I can relate to this when I reminisce on my bitter, yet not-so-distant past.

From pg 141: "a bitter, profound sense of melancholy [is] like the taste that stays in your mouth after you drink cheap wine."

Somehow I can relate to this when I reminisce on my bitter, yet not-so-distant past.

From pg 141: "a bitter, profound sense of melancholy [is] like the taste that stays in your mouth after you drink cheap wine."

Somehow I can relate to this when I reminisce on my bitter, yet not-so-distant past.

From pg 141: "a bitter, profound sense of melancholy [is] like the taste that stays in your mouth after you drink cheap wine."

Somehow I can relate to this when I reminisce on my bitter, yet not-so-distant past.

From pg 141: "a bitter, profound sense of melancholy [is] like the taste that stays in your mouth after you drink cheap wine."

Somehow I can relate to this when I reminisce on my bitter, yet not-so-distant past.

From pg 141: "a bitter, profound sense of melancholy [is] like the taste that stays in your mouth after you drink cheap wine."

Somehow I can relate to this when I reminisce on my bitter, yet not-so-distant past.

Abt Belgian Jewish and Polish Jewish kids during Nazi occupation. Seems interesting, so I'm reading it now...

Abt Belgian Jewish and Polish Jewish kids during Nazi occupation. Seems interesting, so I'm reading it now...

Abt Belgian Jewish and Polish Jewish kids during Nazi occupation. Seems interesting, so I'm reading it now...

Abt Belgian Jewish and Polish Jewish kids during Nazi occupation. Seems interesting, so I'm reading it now...

Behind-the-scene personal pictures of Obama when he was still a junior senator from Illinois. The pics are priceless.

I'm trying again to see if my FB timeline would work.

What is wrong with my FB-Goodreads sync? I've been having a hard time updating my reading progress...

Too bad I live in America. Telling my friends that I'm planning to read Salman Rushdie's books wouldn't create any controversy at all. Not fun!

The book provides a glimpse into an idyllic European town...so nice and peaceful!

This tween graphic novel is not usually my cup of tea (yes, I don't drink coffee!). However, I'm in the mood for light reading today...

Between March 1942 and January 1945, at least 1.5 million people were murdered in Auschwitz. That's bigger than the population of Greater Cincinnati Metro altogether!

On page 95 was the demise of Charles Hardelot, which is ironic, considering that he expected to outlive his son Pierre, who was drafted into the war.

Pg 21: "The only place in the world [German] Jewish refugees could go without a visa [in the 1930s] Shanghai in China- a one-way ticket allowed anyone to live there."

Nevertheless, out of Germany's 503,000 Jews that time, China only took 20,000 total. USA had the most with 102,200 followed by Argentina with 63,500 immigrants.

Charles Hardelot had prognosticated the Cold War on pg 46-47, "...it is my profound conviction that a world war would be fought almost without any blood being spilled...alll everyone will do is try to intimidate each other"

It's amusing to read about this considering that the author Némirovsky, who was Jewish, died in 1942 in Auschwitz..a while before the WW2 even started.

Animals, particularly dogs and horses, had more rights under Nazi Germany than humans did. How ironic.

To quote Ambassador Dodd on pg 336, "One might easily wish he were a horse!"