There's also Where the Red Fern Grows but that's about dogs.
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Laga - Mar 18, 2008 3:50:54 pm PDT #5294 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 3:58:55 pm PDT #5295 of 28344
Amy, I remember that one too! Appalachia, poverty and orphans. With the mentally challenged sister, right?
Amy - Mar 18, 2008 4:01:34 pm PDT #5296 of 28344
Because books.
Yes! Damn, now I want to reread all of these books. Aimee, you want me to do your homework for you?
And Laga, Where the Redfern Grows was the title I was conflating with Lilies.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 4:05:15 pm PDT #5297 of 28344
Yeah, me too. I'm mentally combing the bookshelf in my old bedroom. I know exactly where I put some of those books when I moved out.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 18, 2008 4:10:41 pm PDT #5298 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
About ten years ago, I designed the costumes for The Diary of Anne Frank. I read so many books about the Holacaust, and in particular young people, that I completely made myself sick with grief. To the point that I still have recurring Holocaust dreams. Then I realized that there was literally nothing I could do about history and I had learned enough that I hope I would be able to fight against something like that in the future. And so I am no longer able to read about the Holocaust, and I may be missing some good books, but I am OK with that to spare my mental health.
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2008 4:18:53 pm PDT #5299 of 28344
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
a YA about someone named Liese during WW2
Number the Stars, I think.
Laga - Mar 18, 2008 4:20:06 pm PDT #5300 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm the same way with movies. After Life is Beautiful I was done with holocaust tales. Likewise The Deer Hunter and POW films.
erikaj - Mar 18, 2008 4:38:21 pm PDT #5301 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
I think Roll of Thunder is a terrific book.
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2008 4:40:22 pm PDT #5302 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Out of all the Holocaust reading I've done, the best (in at least offering some hope) that I've read is Escape from Sobibor, about a (somewhat) successful camp breakout (50 out of 275,000 people sent to the camp survive to VE day). There was a good TV film made from the book starring Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 4:42:52 pm PDT #5303 of 28344
Saw that film in one of my hs history classes. Maybe 10th? 9th? Teenagers totally in tears heading off to the next class, not knowing what happened next. Oof.