For this year's A to Z Blogging Challenge I'm featuring books that I'd like to read!
B is for: The Black Count by Tom Reiss
The remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo...who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature. Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. It is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
B is for: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
Do you like historical reads (fiction or non-fiction)? If so, what's your most recent favorite?
My favorite one is An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Pamela Marcantel.
B is for: The Black Count by Tom Reiss
The remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo...who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature. Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. It is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
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B is for: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
Do you like historical reads (fiction or non-fiction)? If so, what's your most recent favorite?
My favorite one is An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Pamela Marcantel.
