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maribouThe Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory
Man, I read this way back around the time I went to the Ren Faire this year, and that was right before I started my new job, and I just somehow totally forgot to count or review it. Doh. Anyway, I was surprised by how much I loved reading this book and keep meaning to read more of her other stuff ...
(232/250)
The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman
I had an idea that this was a novel (Publisher's Weekly, was that your fault?), but it isn't really. It's definitely narrative, and I would even concede that it might be "creative non-fiction" whatever that is - but it's mostly a historical biography. It's just that Ackerman went to great lengths to work all of her research into the story she wanted to tell, so the seams only show enough to point out that 'hey, I'm not making this stuff up'. I suspect there is less made up in this book than in a lot of books that go around being all stuffy and footnoting every second word. Anyway, story of a woman and her husband who ran the Warsaw Zoo and then after Poland was invaded in WW2, used the zoo as a base of operations to help fugitives, plan resistance operations (though that was mostly the zookeeper, not his wife), and stuff like that. Told with Ackerman's usual beauty and elegance. She keeps being my favorite.
(233/250)
Man, I read this way back around the time I went to the Ren Faire this year, and that was right before I started my new job, and I just somehow totally forgot to count or review it. Doh. Anyway, I was surprised by how much I loved reading this book and keep meaning to read more of her other stuff ...
(232/250)
The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman
I had an idea that this was a novel (Publisher's Weekly, was that your fault?), but it isn't really. It's definitely narrative, and I would even concede that it might be "creative non-fiction" whatever that is - but it's mostly a historical biography. It's just that Ackerman went to great lengths to work all of her research into the story she wanted to tell, so the seams only show enough to point out that 'hey, I'm not making this stuff up'. I suspect there is less made up in this book than in a lot of books that go around being all stuffy and footnoting every second word. Anyway, story of a woman and her husband who ran the Warsaw Zoo and then after Poland was invaded in WW2, used the zoo as a base of operations to help fugitives, plan resistance operations (though that was mostly the zookeeper, not his wife), and stuff like that. Told with Ackerman's usual beauty and elegance. She keeps being my favorite.
(233/250)
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Date: 2007-11-18 04:28 am (UTC)Re: lulz
Date: 2007-11-18 05:42 am (UTC)