The Paris Network by Siobhan Curham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a wonderful book filled with memorable characters. I must thank this brilliant author for helping me to realize that the French did not fold under the German boot, their government did. The people remained chained and terrorized by their German captors while they waited for their allied friends to come and save them. I had always believed that the people of France were cooperating with their captors, from this book I see that they were unwilling participants in their captivity.
Many brave and selfless people were part of the resistance, and from this book one might guess that it was a greater number than we might imagine.
Thank you Siobhan Curham for sharing this story. You are what we call nice people in Yiddish, a mench!

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May Books

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

William Kent Krueger is a great author. His books are filled with wonderful imagery and the characters are rich and three dimentional. This book is no exception. The story is sad and the reader has a feeling of melancholy all through the book. This is not surprising as the whole world was in the midst of a great depression and almost everyone was hungry and grimy.
I am glad I read it and stuck it out to the end, even though I had retty much guessed the ending. Getting a glimpse of the depression was the saving grace of the story for me.

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