![]() All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about it. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo’s eyes. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. ![]() ![]() In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The little village of Three Pines watches as its meandering Bella Bella River becomes a raging torrent and threatens to wash the village away. It is April, "the cruelest month", and Quebec is experiencing catastrophic floods such as it has not seen before. ![]() Moreover, it is not just the human on human violence, both physical and psychological, that play an important role in this plot the violence of Nature is the backdrop of it all. And she examines the damage that the unbridled hate expressed through social media does to the fabric of society. In A Better Man, she explores as she has not before the deep physical and psychological damage that domestic violence does in long-term effects on the personalities of victims. Each new entry seems to break new ground and deal with the current state of the world. The bane of long series like this one is that their plots tend to become formulaic and predictable. Her multitude of fans, among whom I count myself, await them impatiently. She produces a new one, regular as clockwork, every summer. This is the fifteenth in Louise Penny's Three Pines Armand Gamache mystery series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone stood a little straighter, smiled a little more pleasantly, and typed a little faster when Mrs. She knew the names of everyone in the company’s Boston building, and they certainly knew her. Always impeccably dressed, she was a maternal force of nature. However, denying the matriarch of Corisi Enterprises was as productive as telling the wind not to blow. “I don’t know anything about being an image consultant,” Jeisa remembered clearly telling Mrs. one that took Jeisa momentarily back to how she’d gotten what some might call her third job in the United States. ![]() Why didn’t I stop him? Well, that’s a funny story. ![]() ![]() Aideen had such a distinctive voice, and reading her story was very entertaining and humorous! I loved the way Smyth wrote the chapters as often in books the chapters can be quite generic, but Smyth smashed Aideen’s voice perfectly – it was one of the strongest voices I’ve read to date!Īideen’s whole character was perfectly planned, to be completely honest with you. ![]() ![]() I think if I had to pinpoint the one thing which made this book stand out so much it would have to be the narrative voice. ![]() There was just something about it which made it stand out from other books in the genre, and I really enjoyed reading it – I could barely put it down once I started! It’s definitely one of my favourite reads of the year so far. I think it’s safe to say that Not My Problem was very different from other contemporaries I’ve read this year. Aideen soon discovers that she has a knack for solving other students’ problems – the only problem is, she can’t seem to solve any of her own. ![]() It all starts when she ends up pushing overachiever Maebh down the stairs in a bid to save her from her hectic schedule – and it completely explodes from there. Not My Problem follows the protagonist, Aideen, and her journey with fixing other people’s problems. Hi everyone! Today I’m going to be reviewing Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth. ![]() |