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 Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:57 pm
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Okay, not fantasy, I know. This is a fantasy guild and this thread doesn't technically belong here, but I feel like sharing anyway.
I recently started reading The Monuments Men, the book that has just become a new movie starring Matt Damon and George Cloony. Anyway, I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie and I just finished chapter one and i cried a little. That's right, the first ******** chapter brought me to tears!
Chapter one introduces one of the 10 main characters, Private Harry Ettlinger, US Sevent Army. He was a Jewish immigrant from Germany. His family fled the country when he was thirteen (the day after his bar mitzvah) and settled in New Jersey. He was the last person to be bar mitzvah'd in the temple before it was burned shortly after. That really got to me.
Anyway, I'm still looking forward to reading the book, but I'm gonna do it in short bursts and at home. Its not the sort of book I want to read on my breaks at work.
What non-fiction or historical fiction books have you read that really got to you? And why?
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:21 pm
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