3/25/2024 0 Comments what's in a war story
what's next for war stories?Is War and Peace too predictable? I've seen some reviews in which people say this is the best book that they have ever read. I'm intimidated by the sheer volume. I think about all the other books that I will have to put on the side while I toil away at this hefty tome. But I'm so curious... Maybe not as predictable, I have no desire to read For Whom the Bell Tolls or Of Men and War. I'm just not a Hemingway fan. I wonder if that will change at all this summer after visiting the Hemingway house in the Florida Keys. I'm curious enough want to see it, but not curious enough to do any prereading of his books. I just don't like his terse writing style. He seems aloof and insensitive, chauvinistic and arrogant. Other TBRs from fiction and nonfiction are listed below: in search of
what I don't want in a war storyI don't want to be inundated with gore. I get that war is a bloody mess and that sometimes it may be necessary to evoke the tragedy in war. But don't make that the main character of the story. I want to know the people in times of war, not the blood and guts.
Don't show me the lack of humanity or decency of an American soldier and then expect me to like him later just because he was a US soldier. If that US soldier took advantage of women in other countries, or did terrible things to women and children and innocents, don't expect me to see his point of view by the end of the book. I realize the moral injury that soldiers are already up against by nature of war. However, if a soldier is already suffering from moral injury how can they justify added cruelty to a vulnerable person?
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1/9/2022 0 Comments Don't Judge a Book...The Family by Naomi KrupitskyI'm not exactly sure why the cover of this book bothers me. Maybe it gives me vapid Gossip Girl vibes. Maybe it gives me snooty sorority girl prim-and-proper visions of fifties high school mean-girls. Either way, the cover does not do justice to the substance of this book.
Without being too revealing of its contents, this book follows two girls who grow up together in The Family, also known as the mafia, around WWII. The author Naomi Krupitsky is skilled in her ability to provide characters with emotional depth and a setting of vivid descriptions. More specifically, I am enjoying these aspects of the book:
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