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Informative

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-25-25

I appreciated the layout of Dan Stone’s THE HOLOCAUST. Each chapter in the audiobook was about an hour long, describing events leading up to The Holocaust, during and after. The information was enough to be informative and interesting without intricate details that would have made me zone out.

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Bland

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-25-25

Despite enjoying listening to the audiobook MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS, it wasn’t a very good book.

One unlikable POV
One semi sympathetic yet thoughtless POV
One boring POV

I guessed the killer the when this character was first introduced because s/he seemed opposite as described.

Annoyances:
-unless one is reckless, wants to get caught or revels in sex, s/he wouldn’t write the dates, times and places in a daily planner. This should have been a nonstarter, instead it wasn’t the red herring it was meant to be.
-Ally’s extreme vitriol toward Grace was so over the top she was unsympathetic, not well-rounded.
-How difficult is texting someone, “I can’t make it” or “I can’t talk”, especially when people had said they felt hurt by Grace annoying them.

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Skip it

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1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-22-25

I would have taken this book more seriously if the writer, on multiple occasions, hadn’t referenced women wearing Nazi garb as possible “role playing” apropos of nothing.

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Outstanding

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-15-25

My education never included European History, so I never formally studied the Holocaust. Being of Ashkenazi descent, I THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK as a child and several times as an adult. I’ve seen SCHINDLER’S LIST at least five times, so I wasn’t completely ignorant on the topic.

Laurence Rees did a fantastic job describing THE HOLOCAUST, including a number of first hand accounts which offered depth to the facts. I appreciated his journalistic approach, avoiding adjectives that were quite obvious considering the horrific atrocities the Nazis perpetrated. His writing, while professional, kept my interest with enough information to educate me without too much detail to bog down the narrative.

THE HOLOCAUST should be required reading for every politician, because I’m pretty sure most don’t know as much as they think they do.

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Mixed messages

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-15-25

THE PRICE SHE PAYS is a well-intentioned book on the difficulties girls and young women pay to succeed in sports, from intramural to the NCAA. The writers make the case for female needs to feel safe, supported and encouraged from coaches, parents and teammates.

By illustrating vignettes of athletes who have encountered troubles along the way the writers illustrate their points of view. I found myself wanting more depth and breadth of information such as mental health history and family dynamics. I also would have liked to know how teammates experienced similar situations, particularly for NCAA athletes.

On one hand I know that girls and boys have different needs and that they respond differently to the same circumstances, though outliers obviously exist. On the other hand the way the information was presented seemed to imply that girls couldn’t handle the way boys are coached. I wish that writers had focused on the different motivations for the genders.

Where THE PRICE SHE PAYS lost me was on transgender access to girl’s sports and locker rooms. Riley Gaines addresses the discomfort some female athletes felt with a biological male in their locker rooms in her memoir SWIMMING AGAINST THE CURRENT. I’m old enough to remember when Title IX began and the excitement I felt that I could participate in more sports. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t athletic or that I disliked playing sports. To me it was about not being told I wasn’t allowed. Even so, the fight for equality in sport still exists and scholarships are hard to come by.

I don’t recommend this book.

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Outstanding

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-07-25

I’ll admit it. I was skeptical. I wasn’t certain a young woman like Shari Franke could capture my interest. Whether written by Shari or a ghost writer, THE HOUSE OF MY MOTHER captivated me from the beginning and never let go.

Though our circumstances were vastly different, I can Shari’s feelings and thoughts as she gains awareness that words her mother wielded, sharp as razor blades, were untrue. Through self-exploration, therapy and a few supportive friendships, Shari begins to realize her worth and goodness.

Shari is more forgiving than her parents and her rapist have rights to expect. Though she understand the fifty-year-old man who forced her into a sexual relationship was wrong, she never uses the word rape, perhaps for legal reasons, perhaps because she still partially blames herself, I hope by now she realizes it was all his fault.

Shari is a very good narrator too and I enjoyed listening to her voice.

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Remarkable beyond words

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-04-25

MY FRIEND ANNE FRANK is the touching story of Hannah Pick-Gosslar’s life, including her friendship with next door neighbor Anne Frank.

Called Hannah Lee (Hannahly?) by family and friends, she gives the perspective of a Holocaust survivor who lost her parents and grandparents. Hannah became a surrogate mother to her toddler sister at age thirteen. Mature beyond her years, Hannah, in a more “privileged” position than Anne due to her grandfather’s work in the Zionist movement , often cared for the younger children in the orphanage rather than having been sent to a concentration camp.

What struck me about Hannah and her family was their lack of complaint for the unfairness of the situation during the Nazi regime. Perhaps they survived by focusing on gratitude rather than the dignity they deserved.

While Anne’s writing was mature beyond her years, her behavior in hiding was age appropriate as the youngest in the attic. Hannah had to step up to mother her sister, which she did with the competence of an adult.

Hannah’s years after the Holocaust ended are equally remarkable. Her life’s mission became an educating the world about Anne Frank and the Shoah which she did into her 90’s. I wish I could have met her.

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Unsatisfying

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-02-25

THE GIRLS WE SENT AWAY is a deeply unsatisfying, depressing look at the pregnancy of a would be valedictorian during the 1960s. For all of Loraine’s ambition and intelligence, her passivity outweighed her dreams.

We’ve all read or seen stories about girls who were sent away to unethical and/or homes to hide their pregnancy, forced to give relinquish their babies not just in the United States, throughout the world. The boys and men who impregnated them went on as if their sperm never caused the girls’ situations. When children were seen and not heard, sometimes girls were never seen. They went from their fathers’ rule to their husbands’.

While Loraine may have been typical teen for the time, her passivity made her boring. I first thought she was a Mary Sue, not like other girls, in her ambitions toward the sciences, which would have been more interesting.

A nonfiction look into forced adoption would likely be more interesting.



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Flawed but good

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-22-25

Elinor goes undercover as the nanny for the child of the father she never knew. What could possibly go wrong?

I really enjoyed TRUE LIFE IN UNCANNY VALLEY, but aspects of the book prevented me from giving a higher score.

The first chunk of the book started off as Elinor’s stream of consciousness thoughts about sexism, racism, homophobia and how those isms apply to her life. Although I agree with all of her position, preachy books, even if I agree with the issues preached, annoy me. I don’t know any teenagers who are constantly talking about their white privilege with peers or thinking about it as often as Elinor. If Deb Caletti had lightened up on that aspect, I would have rated higher.

The stream of consciousness manner of introducing characters didn’t hold my interest because nothing happened except a lot of thinking. Once Elinor got the nanny job, TRUE LIFE IN UNCANNY VALLEY took off as did my enjoyment.

Elinor seemed to have too much knowledge about child development and their needs for someone with a resume of one babysitting job from which she was fired.

Stepmom Aurora was my favorite character.

Though flawed, I recommend TRUE LIFE IN UNCANNY VALLEY.

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Fast paced

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-20-25

Elin Hilderbrand turned me on to Nantucket books, so when I saw that NOTHING BAD HAPPENS HERE by Heather Ekstrom Courage was set on the island, I knew I had to read.

Courage’s wordbuilding was the strongest aspect of the story and I’ll look for more of her novels.

Lucia, narrator and main character, still mourning the death of her best friend, has terrible judgment. I can’t remember a character with such awful senses about people and situations.

Most of the other characters were questionable and highly imperfect.

The pacing of the story and excellent narration kept me listening to the audiobook late than I should have.

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