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People of the Book
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bookshelves: literature-pure, history, wow-impressive, classics, family-ties, heartbreaking, tough, religion, have-to-read-again
Jul 30, 2011
bookshelves: literature-pure, history, wow-impressive, classics, family-ties, heartbreaking, tough, religion, have-to-read-again
What I do is me, for that I came...
This is grand book. Impressive. Intriguing. Tragic. Beautiful. From beginning to the end.
I don't usually like books on war situations but this book received so many good comments and ratings from Goodreads I decided to go for it. I did not regret it.
Each chapter is a time jump, to and fro in time. And starts with a quote, like this one, page 329 in my book:
A white hair
Seville, 1480
My eyes seep sorrow; water skins with holes
- Abid bin al-Abras
Part of a review (Miami Herald): "Stellar - compelling story. Brooks seamlessly moves from the miniscule - the tiny specks - to examine in human terms the larger events from the thirteenth century and into the twenty-first: the inquisition, the rise of anti-semitism, nazism and the holocaust, religious wars and forces exiles, in Bosnia, Venice, Barcelona and Seville."
Big five star. A sensitive story, crossing borders, crossing time lines....Realistic and poetic at the same time.
Will be back with more, probably in the weekend.
Highly recommended!
I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected it....
This is grand book. Impressive. Intriguing. Tragic. Beautiful. From beginning to the end.
I don't usually like books on war situations but this book received so many good comments and ratings from Goodreads I decided to go for it. I did not regret it.
Each chapter is a time jump, to and fro in time. And starts with a quote, like this one, page 329 in my book:
A white hair
Seville, 1480
My eyes seep sorrow; water skins with holes
- Abid bin al-Abras
Part of a review (Miami Herald): "Stellar - compelling story. Brooks seamlessly moves from the miniscule - the tiny specks - to examine in human terms the larger events from the thirteenth century and into the twenty-first: the inquisition, the rise of anti-semitism, nazism and the holocaust, religious wars and forces exiles, in Bosnia, Venice, Barcelona and Seville."
Big five star. A sensitive story, crossing borders, crossing time lines....Realistic and poetic at the same time.
Will be back with more, probably in the weekend.
Highly recommended!
I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected it....
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Reading Progress
July 30, 2011
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February 21, 2016
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Started Reading
February 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
to-read
March 16, 2016
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Finished Reading
March 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
literature-pure
March 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
history
August 7, 2016
– Shelved as:
wow-impressive
November 12, 2016
– Shelved as:
classics
March 6, 2019
– Shelved as:
family-ties
August 1, 2019
– Shelved as:
heartbreaking
August 3, 2019
– Shelved as:
tough
November 3, 2019
– Shelved as:
religion
December 1, 2019
– Shelved as:
have-to-read-again
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Mar 17, 2016 09:37PM
Glad you enjoyed it!
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General... I don't really like reading books about war situations. But this one (going to and fro in time), really got to me. Wow....
Don't wait too long... it's so worthed. I also had it on my to-read list and shelf for some time. Goodreads reviews made me take it off the shelf and start reading... I'm sure you will love it too.
I also have The Year of Wonders on the shelf. ;) And since it's a paperback, I think I'll start with this one. E-books are blinding me lately. :/ And People of the Book is on my notebook. :/
Ah..... understand ...But honestly... this book is much better than Year of Wonders (read it like two years ago or around that time....)... well, that's my view...
Nothing better than a real book by the way :-)
E-books just don't really work for me. Easy in planes though, ha.
Hm, ok, I'll think about it, thank you, Annet! Exactly, easy in planes and you can have plenty in one flash drive. ;)
Your call Caro, always your call.I would know though :-)
So got a good five star tip for me?
I really now need to start finishing Bring in the bodies (Mantel) but I can do with another book on the side....
The Women of Lazarus I've read this recently and totally loved it. And I noticed it has a lot of translations, so I think you have a large choice here. ;)
Thanks! I'll go see if I can find it in English. Sounds good.
So... I just read somewhere if you really don't know what to read next, look at your overloaded book shelf.... then go to www.random.org. Click the true random number generator top page right and that is the number for you to go count on your book shelf (where to start... left right top bottom.....), find that number... and start reading that book. Kinda like that idea. Maybe I''ll try it. Keep you posted!
I also gave this five stars. I thought the story was intriguing because of course we want to know where the Haggadah ends up. Geraldine Brooks' use of prose is always superb.
Absolutely agree. I'm very interested in 'March', her Pullizer Prize book. Hope to read it soon.
My mom just read Caleb's Crossing and enjoyed that as well. The woman who told me to read Brooks suggested March, Year of Wonders, and the Secret Chord. I'm going with Caleb as I'm not sure if I want to read a Civil War book.
Annet wrote: "So... I just read somewhere if you really don't know what to read next, look at your overloaded book shelf.... then go to www.random.org. Click the true random number generator top page right and t..."Haha, very nice! I might try it! :D
I loved March and this is already on my TBR list. Your review made me bump it up towards the top of the list!
Sounds good! For me it's the other way round... I don't have March yet 'in house' but will find it soon, looking forward to that. Hope you enjoy People of the Book, I thought it was exceptional.
Such an amazing read!!!
Welcome Beata, have a great weekend!
Nice review Annet. Loved this book.
Annet wrote: "So... I just read somewhere if you really don't know what to read next, look at your overloaded book shelf.... then go to www.random.org. Click the true random number generator top page right and t..."Annet wrote: "So... I just read somewhere if you really don't know what to read next, look at your overloaded book shelf.... then go to www.random.org. Click the true random number generator top page right and t..."
So... I took your suggestion and went on Random.org.
It asks for a max and minimum number.
I have 176 to read books and I chose the minimum at 7.
It generated the number 16.
#16 on my list is "Alone with You" by Marisa Silver. Website is interesting . If the book is good, the site will be great :)
Thank you for the tip.
:-) Fun, I almost forgot about this. Must do this myself soon!!
Just seen your lovely review. Thank you Annet. I must read this one.
Annet- I previously commented on your lovely review of "The People of the Book". Wonderful book!!!As I was reading the new comments this morning, I scrolled up and saw the fun tip you wrote regarding random.org. back in August.
I also forgot about that, so I did it again this morning. .
This time it gave me #203 on my TRL which is
"The German Mujahid".
Have you read it?
