[bookshare-discuss] book recommendation

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:35:09 -0700 (PDT)

 just finished reading The Endless Steppe, which is
also in the collection, and I heartily recommend it to
people from upper elementary grades to adults.  It
covers an aspect of World War II that I never knew
about-- the deportation of Poles, Jews and non-Jews
alike, by the Soviets to Siberia in 1941, and their
lives there.  It is autobiographical, and the author
writes in the first person. She was 10 when her family
was sent to Siberia not for being Jewish but because
her father was, according to the Soviets, a
capitalist, and she lived there until she was
repatriated in 1946.

I think young people particularly should read this
book, because it will help them to appreciate the
amenities they have, even if they don't have
everything they want, or everything the other kids
have. Somehow I missed this book when my children were
growing up. Fortunately, I did find and they did read
The Summer of My German Soldier and Manzanar.  I
myself did not know about the Japanese internment
until I was a graduate student and was working on the
play Teahouse of the August Moon;  many of the cast
members had come to Minnesota because of the
internment. And I didn't know we had german
prisoner-of-war camps in this country until The Summer
of My German Soldier.

Now I have another question. When I've checked some of
the titles in the collection, I see there's a category
called Average customer rating. I've only seen one
book that had anything --The Giver, which had 5 stars.
 Is it only members who can rate the books? I assume
the rating is for content and not for the
scanning-and-validating job on the book.

Cindy


                
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