I have read 680 pages in 10 days.
I finished Sarah's Keys in hardly any time. Powerful book full of fiction and non-fiction, sin and goodness. I'm sure the average person would be almost overwhelmed with the death in the book. It will touch you down to the very core of your being. I had to remind myself not to be pissed at French, Germans, and anyone else who killed or helped kill the Jews during WWII. So much death. So much pain. I am rating it (not that you care) a solid 4 stars. Why not 5 stars? I think it could have done with less sinfulness in the fiction section. We are all broken - I get that - but do main characters have to have EVERY vice under the sun to make it a great book? Not in my opinion.
I also started reading Orthodoxy at this time. It is hard to digest. I'm about 48 pages into it I think. I have read it in bits and pieces so I have a plan of having two books going at the same time. Even two religious books going is better than one slow book. So far I've learned who madmen are. I've met a couple legit madmen according to the description.
After I finished Sarah's Keys I started reading With God in Russia as my second book to read at a time. Wow, another powerful and very much true story of a priest who spent twenty-three years in Soviet prisons and Siberian labor camps. Incredible read! I can't put it down!!! I have just under a hundred pages left in this book. I'm sure it will be getting 5 stars!
What are you reading? Drop me a note! I'd love to know!!
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