Friday, February 22, 2008
Next New Read!!
After a brief intermission, we've found a new book. The next selection is The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackland. So join us if you can.....the start date for actually reading? Well, as soon as anyone interested secures a copy. I will be anxiously be awaiting the go signal from our other blog members.
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I have purchased the book and I am ready to go! Anyone else?
Ready, set, READ!!! I'm ready to start. Everybody else just join in when you're ready.
I have started the book - The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman. At first I didn't understand how the idyllic and unusual life of a big city zookeeper's family could fit with the book cover description of the horror of the Nazi occupation of Poland. The author did a great job of creating the setting for the story. She moved from the unorthodox but idyllic life of a big city zookeeper to the horror of war. I am just getting a hint of what is to come.
I am enjoying the author's way of making us feel the joy Antonina experienced being the nurturing force behind her husband both before the war and after the horrors began. It is a totalling engrossing story shown from a realistic and not often heard from source.....those who looked beyond their own need for survival to those who would not have made it without their selflessness.
I think most of us know the horror of WWII in a general sense. I think what really brought it home to me was the Warsaw ghetto. The atrocities that the Jews went through were horrible. I can't imagine having to give your baby up so that the rest of the family could escape. The baby might cry and give away the rest of the family. The number of calories per day the Jews were alloted was less than 200. Antonia and Jan were truly heroes of the war. They went to great lengths so that their friends could have food and shelter, and to help many of them escape, often putting their own family at risk. This was a story that was remarkable and needed to be told. This book was well worth the read.
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