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Welcome to The Border's Books & Music Book Club. Each month we will read and review a different book. It's a great way to spend those cold winter nights, enjoying a new book from Border's. Here is the fun part! Just click below to add your comments on the "book of the month" and you are entered to win a $50 gift card from Borders. We will give away a gift card at the end of every month.
Thank you to everyone who participated in last month's Border's Book Club. Congratulations to Denise Dilsaver- the winner of the first $50.00 gift card from Border's!
Congratulations to Libby Ware for being this month's winner of the $50.00
Gift Card from Border's!
New book announced Tuesday, May 6th!
This month's book:
Memory
Kami's Comments on Memory
Growing up in the years just after the Nazi occupation of France, the protagonist, who shares the author's name, lives in a world of secrets and loud silences. Even his last name, changed from Grinberg to Grimbert, conceals a hidden truth. Lyrically evocative, Memory is a poweful statement about the devastation wrought by repression and the lierating power of the truth.
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Reader's Comments on Memory
Very Good!!! I was not impressed with the beginning. Once I figured out the characters and the theme of the text, I could not put it down. The author tells a great love story, while along the way mixing in historical facts of the World War II and then trying to find out what happened to loved ones. I enjoyed the contrast of peronalities between father, who knows something bad is coming and can't get anyone to listen; and his son, who only wants to believe the best in his country and its people. The acts of the Holocaust can not be understood or explained. I thought the book told a story that was and is important.
*Denise
Sorry, but i just couldn't get into reading this one! it took me a long time to finish it. looking forward to your next selection!
*Whendy
"Memory" to me, was a difficult book to get into. It took several chapters to figure out who was who, and how they belonged in the story. The beginning of "Memory" was slow moving and really didn't go anywhere. By, the middle it was slightly better and you start to feel for some of the people in the book, for example, Simon the innocent child taken away by hatered, and his mother who was just plain heartbroken and had lost all hope. "Memory" was not the best book that I have ever read. While reading it, the book felt like a novel that was read in high school for an assignment, but after the book was finished I was glad I read it. "Memory" was a novel that I appreciated more after it ended and I had time to reflection on what happened.
*Libby
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This was a really thought about book. I liked reading the book because it told of what life in that period of our world was like. This was a story of a 15 yr. old who finds out about the secrets in his family. Secrets that he was never to know. An old family friend, Louise, tells the boy his family's story. He finds that their was an illicit love affair and that his father was a part of it. He also finds out that his imaginary sibling wasn't really that imaginary. He had an older half brother who died in a concentration camp and the brothers name was Simon. Simon and his mother were both placed in a concentration camp and both died there.Immediately after their death the boy's father married his lover. They have a child, the 15 year old. He also finds that his father never got over what had happen in the past and that's why when his second wife becomes sick he along with his wife committed suicide.
*Helen
Reader's Comments on A Version of the Truth
This lady in this book really speaks her mind and is a real go getter and she knows what she wants and it kept me laughing too.
*Kelly
Good choice! I really enjoyed reading this one! Two questions, one, tell me why it seems that all women have to have at least on Freddy in their lives at some point or time? lol! and why do we as women always do things the hard way? lol! I'm so glad that it had a happy ending!! I was beginning to wonder for a while if it was going to turn out ok, but the "truth shall set you free!" It's funny though, because it seems like a lot of women do the same thing that Cassie seemed to do, take the hard, long road to get to happiness! Then hindsight makes it seems like there would have much a much smoother route to take! Looking forward to your next selection!
*Whendy
I just finished "The Version of the Truth". It was a struggle for me to
finish the book. I loved Sam, the parrot. He was the highlight of the book
for me. I would love to have him in my office everyday. I wasn't impressed
with Cassie or any of her assortment of "friends or acquiantances". I
thought the storyline was never ending. Sorry, just didn't like the book.
*Denise
Version of the truth was a pretty good book. I love this style of writing, you know, the style has you feeling like your friend is sitting right next to you telling you another wild story of their life. Cassie became a friend of mine while reading this book. When she was nervous, mad, sad, or whatever emotion it was I felt them with her. It brought back my own emotions that I hadn't felt in quite sometime, I forgot what it felt like to be stood up, or even trying to understand the opposite sex. (I've been married too long!). And just trying to fit in. And the struggles to change your life when you are not happy. The authors did a wonderful job bringing Cassie to life. So, all in all I really enjoyed this novel, and can't wait for the next one.
*Libby
I did like this book. It is truly amazing that people DO inflate their resumes to get a job and employers don't check further into the education to see if indeed the person did attend that school. Oh well more power to those people if they get and can keep such jobs. Cassie surely had some great adventures with her job, friends, pets and husband. I enjoyed her account of going into the area with the birds. sometimes birds and humans can be very elusive. Cassie did the right thing in going away and finding herself. We all need to do that sometime in our lives. The book flowed so I wanted to continue, not one that you forced your way through the pages and to the end. Looking forward to the next selection.
*Barbara
I really like the style of this book. At first I didn't like Cassie but I understood how she was feeling. I like how she got on with are life and kept going even through the times that were hard. She brought most of it on herself but then she went about fixing things and starting new. Her parrot Sam and Black Dog were delightful and it was sad when Sam died. Cassie is a girl that anyone would like to know because she stays with her idea until she gets what she wants. I sure would like to be her friend.
*Helen
Finally finished the book and I must say that I enjoyed it. It was easy reading and kept you laughing. I could relate with a lot of the things that Cassie was going through. Like the readers comments from Whendy it seems like we all have a Freddy and sometimes women do take the long hard road to find happiness. I guess that is how we learn to handle the good and the bad times in life. Cassie showed us that if we keep on going, no matter what life hands us, there is always a bright side. Sam was a classic! Hope the next book is also great.
*Emma
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