Tiggerish
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 17, 1999
Week 44- I read five books this week which brings me to 177/208. The books I read were:
The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe. Historical fiction. Just before the start of World War II, Lisa is sent to England on a train (Kindertransport) especially for taking endangered Jewish children to England. She is matched with foster parents in London and then endures the bombings. She is caught outside during a bombing without any identification and suffers a severe concussion and loss of memory. Her foster parents search for her but are led to believe she died while visiting a neighbor whose home was demolished in that bombing raid. She goes to a children's home and then is relocated to a rural village where she is taken in by a reclusive spinster. Slowly she regains her memory but her original foster parents have relocated because their whole block was bombed out. After the war she tracks down her original foster parents and makes contact with a distant relative in Switzerland. She learns her entire family has been killed in the Holocaust except her mother who is in a bad way. Lisa, with a young man from the village, goes to Switzerland and finds her mother who has a brief lucid moment and recognizes her then dies. The book ends with Lisa returning to the English village and marrying the young man.
The Silver Music Box by Mina Baites translated from German by Alison Layland. Historical fiction. It tells the story of a Jewish family from 1914 through 1963 by tracing the creation of a unique music box and its being handed down from generation to generation. Interestingly, the Kindertransport plays a part in this book also, as a child being saved by getting on the train smuggles the box out with her. It had lots of interesting details about life in Germany for the family starting with the father fighting for Germany in the first war to the suffering and efforts to survive the second war. According to the author's notes, many of the details are on based on real people and events.
97 Orchard - An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman. Non-fiction. The author brings you into the kitchens of five different woman as they cook for their newly immigrated families. It was well researched and included many recipes (none of which looked good to me).
If Only In My Dreams by Belle Calhoune. Christian romantic fiction with happy ending.
That Was Then by Leah Atwood. Christian romantic fiction with happy ending.
The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe. Historical fiction. Just before the start of World War II, Lisa is sent to England on a train (Kindertransport) especially for taking endangered Jewish children to England. She is matched with foster parents in London and then endures the bombings. She is caught outside during a bombing without any identification and suffers a severe concussion and loss of memory. Her foster parents search for her but are led to believe she died while visiting a neighbor whose home was demolished in that bombing raid. She goes to a children's home and then is relocated to a rural village where she is taken in by a reclusive spinster. Slowly she regains her memory but her original foster parents have relocated because their whole block was bombed out. After the war she tracks down her original foster parents and makes contact with a distant relative in Switzerland. She learns her entire family has been killed in the Holocaust except her mother who is in a bad way. Lisa, with a young man from the village, goes to Switzerland and finds her mother who has a brief lucid moment and recognizes her then dies. The book ends with Lisa returning to the English village and marrying the young man.
The Silver Music Box by Mina Baites translated from German by Alison Layland. Historical fiction. It tells the story of a Jewish family from 1914 through 1963 by tracing the creation of a unique music box and its being handed down from generation to generation. Interestingly, the Kindertransport plays a part in this book also, as a child being saved by getting on the train smuggles the box out with her. It had lots of interesting details about life in Germany for the family starting with the father fighting for Germany in the first war to the suffering and efforts to survive the second war. According to the author's notes, many of the details are on based on real people and events.
97 Orchard - An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman. Non-fiction. The author brings you into the kitchens of five different woman as they cook for their newly immigrated families. It was well researched and included many recipes (none of which looked good to me).
If Only In My Dreams by Belle Calhoune. Christian romantic fiction with happy ending.
That Was Then by Leah Atwood. Christian romantic fiction with happy ending.
