Between Shades of Gray was a really well-written novel. It was realistic, moving, and just.. beautifully put together.Few books are written like this one!Check out my blog review. http://bookaholic-ness.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-between-shades-of-gray-by.html
Our country is doomed, don't you see? Our fate is genocide, no matter whose hands we fall into 3.5 stars. Between shades of Gray looks at the lesser known genocide in World War II. In 1939 the Soviet union occupied the Baltic states and started with the mass deportation of all people considered anti...
I read this book in the span of 6 hours yesterday. That`s a good thing :)I feel like a received a punch in the stomach. That`s a good thing too :)The story follows a fifteen years old LINA with her younger brother and mother on a journey from their homeland to labor camps where they suffered > for y...
Review also posted at Ja čitam, a ti? If there is some certain type of the story I run away from then it's war stories. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed some of them like Anne Frank but that was before I had to survive four years of high-school and constantly reading them. I'm probably over-reacting but...
What a gem of a book. So beautifully written, not one wasted word. When the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction blur, a story has an even greater emotional impact. Between Shades of Gray transports us to a time and place that we may not know much about but one that we can't ignore. It reminds...
Powerful. I don’t think I put it down once I actually got started. It’s got the best and the worst of humanity, but it was the best that had me breathing deep. Elena, in particular stands foremost in my mind. That she clung to hope through every single thing they went through, but what was even was...
Holy anti-depressants, Batman.War is hell. This book makes this statement perfectly clear, and provides the audience with a new look into an old horror story: World War II. Coming from America, I sadly had no idea what Stalin had done to the Baltic countries, and reading about these voiceless victim...
Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/03/between-shades-of-gray-by-ruta-sepetys.htmlUsed to read Holocaust stories, this one about Siberia took me to a similar world of imprisonment that I didn't know about.Lina, a fifteen year old taken from her home to work in the deadly winter of Siberia, tells h...
Word of advice: Do not begin reading this at 10:30 at night. It will make you want to go into your kid's room and wake them at 2 am after you finish the book just to kiss them and know they are safe.Heart wrenching.
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