Has anyone read Sarah's Key? It was a book reviewed in a recent issue of Cabin Life.
I couldn't put the book down. It was a great story but make sure you have a box of tissues handy because you are gonna need them.
Jean
I started reading the book one Sunday afternoon and had to put it aside because I felt emotionally drained. A week later, I picked up the story where I left and simply could not put it down. I had to hide so that I would not get interrupted and got totally immersed in the story. When I got done with the book, I was emotionally exhausted. I walked into my backyard and sat on the bench and remained silent and reflected about the story. The events described make it hard to stomach some parts of the story but this is a MUST read book. Awesome story that still haunts me to date!
I am now tackling "Suite Française" by Irène Némirovsky, things are just picking up...no comments yet.
I will have to check that out. I am finishing The Count of Monte Cristo. Even though it is dated, it is really a fantastic story!
I loved Sarah's Key - read that quite awhile ago. If you liked Sarah's Key, you'll love "Away" by Amy Bloom. I won't tell you anything else about it - just read it.
Happy Fourth, everyone!
Another great book I re-read over the Fourth was The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz Zafon. I read it several years ago, but it was good so I reread it.
Not as intense or literary as Sarah's Key or Away, but a great story and a great summer read - full of magic and mystery....
A boy's father (who is a bookseller of rare and obscure books) decides that his boy is finally old enough to go to a mysterious and secret place, The Cemetery of Lost Books. Each book in the Cemetery is the only surviving copy left in the world. The boy chooses a book that sends him on a mysterious search when he learns of the strange disappearance of every other copy of the author's novels, except for the boy's own copy.
The boy discovers that a man who names himself after one of the novel's characters has bought up and burned all the copies in a series of fires, and finally destroys the publisher's entire warehoused stock in a massive fire. The mystery deepens as the boy, now a young man, tries to solve the mystery of why this man is burning all the books - and the man learns that there is still one remaining copy of the book he is trying to erase from the world.