Started Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire. First book in her October Daye urban fantasy series. This is my first Seanan McGuire book, have heard a lot about her.

Still skimming through The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Caroll.

Putting Ultra-processed Food by Chris van Tulleken on hold for a bit, shouldn't have started multiple non-fiction at once. Will pick it up after finishing the Bullet Journal Method.

Bingo squares covered: Short and Sweed, Award Winner (Hard mode)

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] Tvon0707@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

I found this book when I was younger and have read it on and off for years since then. I've probably read through it at least four times. It's called RESISTANCE -JENNIFER A. NIELSEN- Its a book about a girl growing up in Nazi Occupied Poland. Her parents ultimately ended up sending her away as the occupation got to its breaking point, right before mass amounts of jews were shipped from their ghettos and the treatment within them became animalistic. She never made it to her grandparents. Instead her path was interrupted and she rekindled a relationship from her childhood with an old family friend that led a resistance in the country.

Ultimately she became a courier throughout many ghettos that are now renowned for their brutality, carrying the stories with her. She was a pinnacle person in the Warsaw uprising when the Nazi's attempted to clear out the entire ghetto to be sent to concentration camps. Her character is fictional I believe, but her experience's are very real.

The author curated this novel to illustrate and highlight the battles and lives of all the couriers throughout WW2. The book is expertly crafted and my skin broke out in goosebumps multiple times throughout. Whenever Im in a time period where I feel a sense of repression, lack of autonomy, or battles with control I gravitate back to this book. Highly recommend.