Book Reading...............

[disneydream06]

FINALLY got my first book of the new year read.
It's hard to read on break at work when your eyes want to keep closing or when you just aren't getting breaks...

Anyway, my first book this year was "The Gestapo" by Carsten Dams & Michael Stolle.
Can't say I can really recommend it. It read like you were listening to a really dull college professor giving a lecture. Well, I am guessing that as I never went to college. :p
They spent a lot of time saying how the Gestapo weren't really all that bad, that others were involved in their "crimes". Then in the next paragraph they would list all these horrors that the Gestapo had done.
It was really sad to read about the follow up to the war. The war crime trials or should I say lack there of. The vast majority of Gestapo agents and other war criminals were let off scott free. Many of the higher ranking officers finding positions within the new German governments(East and West).

On to lighter/easier reading. :)


Book List 2015:
1. The Gestapo by Carsten Dams & Michael Stolle

Comments

[merlinwon.livejournal.com]

223 Stores closing Barnes & Noble (through 2023)

Time to stock up??

I happed upon a tweet yesterday about this!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Rochester is losing one of their two B&N stores. :o

[lexkimdoors.livejournal.com]

Gestapo - it's interesting to read in the light of Russian reality

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I think there are a few areas here that aren't all that far behind Russia. :(

[lexkimdoors.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's not only Russian disease

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Sadly no.
Lots of hate to go around.

[lexkimdoors.livejournal.com]

Hatred - very reliable commercial project, you know

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL...
Yes, easy to get people to jump on the bandwagon. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Perhaps -some- day you will be able to say that the first book you have been reading is "Yandria", written by a dear 'hm' friend of you. :o)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I look forward to that day. You will be my second friend whose books I have gotten to read. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Darn, I won't be the first?? LOLLLLL***

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Nope, sorry. Another friend has 4 or was it 5 books. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

thàt, I can not beat

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to read yours too. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Hey, but mine first needs to be good enough to be published in Dutch, and THEN it needs to be good enough to be translated in different languages.
Your friend might have had a serious head-start here

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Well, Mary self published hers.
It would be so great if a company would publish them, but...

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Self-publishing is no option for me.
Either way they want it, or they don't.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

:(
I hope you can polish it up really nicely and somebody will love to publish it. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

I don't mind to need someone who must polish it up.
Any publisher will do so and that's okay.

Ah well.. we'll see how it turns out

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed and LOTS of HUGS.......

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Oh my... you sound as if I'm doomed already!!!


EEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was suppose to be LOTS of encouragement. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

*phewwwwwwwwwwww**

Thank God!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I would never do that to you. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ♥

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

{{{HUGS}}}

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

**hugs ya back**

[matrixmann]

And the last sin to the whole story is - the whole keeping it under the carpet by the new West German government (at least there I get to hear most of the stories of it) just until the people have died or - even further than that - until the present.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

It's sad that the message I took away from the book was, They were just doing their job.
Thankfully I know better.

[matrixmann]

That is the phrase that is often used in connection with the war crimes of the Third Reich, especially if someone still wants to come up with financial claims.
Every former Stasi employee is suspected of a personal intention for his participation, in comparison to that.

[inner-storm.livejournal.com]

Decided what you'll read next?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I started book No.2 one night at work when I forgot the other book, but thankfully had my Nook with me. It's a much easier and fun read. :)
I am just past the 1/4 way point.
And just to keep things rolling, I started book No.3 too. lol........

[inner-storm.livejournal.com]

:)

[ashmedai.livejournal.com]

That really did sound tedious. On to new things! What book is next?

*hugs*

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I am a 1/4 of the way through a book called Where the Boys Are. And I read a couple of pages into Kingdom Keepers VII.

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

Well done on the first one!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I am a little over a quarter of the way through another book now. :) I read 80+ pages tonight at work. lol........

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

You're a reading machine

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I think I am just past the half way point.
I only read a page or two over the weekend. SHAME ON ME. :p

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

nothing to be ashamed about

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I use to set aside an hour before bedtime to read, but now with my friend from Pheonix working the night shift too, I spend that chatting with him. :p

[staarship.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! How was it?
I'm currently reading "Eragon"

I hear I'm in for a good time.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

It was VERY dry. :o
Not sure that it threw any new light on the subject for me.

Eragon? Is that about dragons? Or am I thinking of another movie? :p

[staarship.livejournal.com]

that low budget movie is correct!!!! hahah book = better. but I feel like that hardly ever needs to be clarified.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how they can make such a great book into a lousy movie so frequently. :o

[ellierachael.livejournal.com]

I'm still only 1/2 way through the 3rd "Song of Ice and Fire" book. Going to take a break from them once I finish this one and come back to them later

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

The next "real" book I am going to read if the final in a series. Kind of sad to think about that. :o