Bib·li·o·phile Fridays #1 - Daylight Savings Time
Bib·li·o·phile Fridays is a brand new weekly meme hosted by me and Foxes and Fairy Tales on our blogs and you can find more information on our Goodreads group page. We've created this original weekly meme in honor of the bib·li·o·phile population (we are a dying breed you know). We’re super excited to share this with our readers and we hope you will all join us in our fight to raise awareness for the bib·li·o·phile population. In other news, my co-host is currently hosting a giveaway (ending November 23) on her blog in promotion for our new weekly meme. Head on over to her site to enter today!
This weeks theme is... Daylight Savings Time (Don’t forget to move your clocks backwards on Nov. 6). Since DST was introduced during the first World War, pick out 5 books set during WWI or WWII (the choice is up to you).
*TOP 5 BOOKS RELATED TO THE WEEKLY THEME: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS (WWI & WWII)*
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
All the Lights We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
*FEATURED BOOK*
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse Genre: Historical Fiction, YA, World War II Release Date: April 5, 2016 Buy Now: Amazon / B&N / Kobo Synopsis The missing girl is Jewish. I need you to find her before the Nazis do. Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days finding and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the German army invaded. Her illegal work keeps her family afloat, and Hanneke also likes to think of it as a small act of rebellion against the Nazis. On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meat or kerosene, Hanneke is shocked by the older woman’s frantic plea to find a person: a Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen had been hiding, who has vanished without a trace from a secret room. Hanneke initially wants nothing to do with such a dangerous task but is ultimately drawn into a web of mysteries and stunning revelations—where the only way out is through. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, and meticulously researched, Girl in the Blue Coat is an extraordinary, unforgettable story of bravery, grief, and love in impossible times.
*ABOUT MONICA HESSE*
Monica Hesse is the author of the young adult historical fiction novel Girl in the Blue Coat, as well as the young adult science fiction novel Stray and its sequel, Burn. She is a feature writer for the Washington Post, where she has covered royal weddings, dog shows, political campaigns, Academy Awards ceremonies, White House state dinners, and some events that felt like a mixture of all of the above. She has talked about these stories, and other things, on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, FOX and NPR, and she has been a finalist for a Livingston Award and a James Beard Award. Monica hosts a weekly Washington Post chat, Web Hostess, and she lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and a brainiac dog. Connect with the author: Website / Facebook / Twitter / Goodreads
*SMALL EXCERPT - Chapter One
"Hallo, sweetheart. What do you have there? Something for me? I stopped because the soldier's face is young and pretty, and because his voice has a wink in it, and because I bet he would make me laugh during an afternoon at the movies. That's a lie. I stopped because the soldier might me a good contact, because he might be able to get the things that we can't get anymore, because his dresser drawers are probably filled with row after row of chocolate bars and socks that don't holes in the toes. That's also not really the truth. But sometimes I ignore the truth, because it's easier to pretend I'm making decisions for rational reasons. It's easier to pretend I have a choice.
