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Feb 21, 2011
Angela
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it was amazing
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What I liked most about this book is that it shows, through example, how perfectly normal women can be really brave and stand up to a horrible dictator, even risking their lives to do so.
I seem to be on streak of reading fictionalized histories or biographies lately, and I've been questioning whether it wouldn't be better to read the non-fiction versions. This novel shows one of the great advantages to fictionalization: the author can present thoughts and feelings of the characters that likely w ...more
I seem to be on streak of reading fictionalized histories or biographies lately, and I've been questioning whether it wouldn't be better to read the non-fiction versions. This novel shows one of the great advantages to fictionalization: the author can present thoughts and feelings of the characters that likely w ...more
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