What are you reading this week of June 4, 2017?

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24. Thanks for the thread, hermetic. Hi everyone!

Started reading Affinity Konar's book, Mischling after reading several good reviews over the past few months. Several chapters in and I am blown away by the beauty of Konar's writing, and feel that I am in the story with these two sisters.

This is a review from amazon:

It’s not easy picking up a book involving Auschwitz’s infamous “Angel of Death.” But once you pick up Affinity Konar’s Mischling, you will have a very difficult time putting it down. Inspired by the real-life experiences of twins Eva and Miriam Mozes, Konar’s beautifully written and powerful novel imagines what it was like being forced to take part in Josef Mengele’s horrific human experiments. This man, this monster, is not the star of the story though. 12-year-old siblings Pearl and Stasha are, and it is they who convey Mischling’s overarching message, something that is perhaps even more incomprehensible than man’s inhumanity to man: the capacity to forgive it. If Konar is concerned about whether or not these pages honor the memory of the brave souls who agitated against the cruel hand the world dealt them, she should rest easy. And hopefully those souls are too. --Erin Kodicek, The Amazon Book Review

I am sure the reading will become more difficult as the story (and the horror) unfolds, but I have always felt compelled to read about the holocaust after my family visited Dachau in 1960 when Dad was stationed in Germany. It had not been renovated and "sanitized" and, even as a child of 10, I was deeply troubled by the darkness and smell of death that still lingered.

My wish lists are long and I have several books on hold at the library, so I'm not sure what I'll be reading next, but I think it will be something more lighthearted and fun.