Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Have you read Suite Francaise?


Beginning in Paris the first night of the Nazi occupation in the 1940's, the novel Suite Francaise, tells a remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control.

The locals learn to co-exist with their enemy as they enter their homes and their hearts.

The remarkable thing about this novel is the author, Irene Nemirovsky, a highly successful writer from Paris was a Jew and was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. The novel was hidden for 64 years and was published in 2007. There is an Appendix at the end with the author's notes and how she intended to end the novel.

I have nearly four hundred books that are begging me to read them in my home library. I have devised a method of choosing which one to read next by reading them alphabetically, by author. My next book will be by an author with the last name starting with an "L". I started with "A" and then went to "Z" next.

So, I'm heading upstairs to my library to choose my next book. 

See you tomorrow!

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