left on my computer cart at work on Christmas day - thank you!

Thank you so very much skcreader for the large box of books you sent me! What a great collection of titles. I am sure I will find many I want to read before I share them with others. This is going on Mt TBR! This looks like a must read book! THANK YOU!

I hope this book not only finds many happy readers but also checks in from time to time to let me know where it has traveled.

This was a really interesting book and I am so greatful that you included it in my recent bookbox! Thank you again so much!

While reading one of the many appendixes I learned a little about the author's background and her family. All of the sudden I realized that her father and my greatgrandfather (my mom's dad's father) may have done businees together or at least had heard of each other back in Kiev. This was such a wonderful surprise and made the book even more special. Now I know why I felt I HAD to read this book, I needed to read that little bit of possible family history.

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ETA: My husband and I have already read this book and liked it very much. I'm going to look for a new home for it.

I read this book in 2007, and this is what I wrote about it then:

Let me preface this by saying that this is the type of novel I usually never read. It started out to be an extraordinarily long novel with a multiplicity of characters, all with French names (because, of course, the setting was France!). I felt compelled to read it knowing the history of the author who, during the course of writing this novel, was deported to Auschwitz where she died of typhus. This novel as it was written contained only parts one and two of what was to have been a five part epic novel. As I started reading it, I made a list of the characters and who they were to help ease my way through the story. That list helped me a lot as the succeeding chapters often referred back to characters mentioned previously.

The writing itself was beautiful. I could easily picture the various setting as characters moved from place to place. What was especially notable about this was the sense of how French citizenry lived on a day-to-day basis while Germany was threatened and then partially overtaken by German occupying troops. Since my orientation to Nazi Germany was as the child of a German-Jewish refugee to the United States, it was interesting to see how non-Jews of another European country reacted to the invasion of their own country by the Germans. Storm in June was about the invasion; Dolce was about the actual occupation – a time in which time individual German soldiers were billeted (lodged) in French households. (It made me pretty happy to realize that, in the United States, we are only adjacent to Canada and Mexico - although I am aware of other serious threats!) It was also interesting to note how the very wealthy continued to feel more important than their less wealthy compatriots and think that their wealth would always protect them from harm (in essence having the opinion that their very existence was more valuable than that of “common” people). Sadly, we don’t have a conclusion to this story other than history itself.

This book is highly wishlisted on BookMooch so I'm posting a notice on LibraryThing to see if any BookMoocher there wants me to reserve this book for them.

Wating for a response...

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