Long before Martha Stewart’s perfectionist homemaker guidebooks, there was Peg Bracken. But I Wouldn’t Have Missed It For the World by Peg Bracken ~ 1973 The author draws heavily upon her own experiences as a German citizen during the war worth reading for that element alone, though there is much more here to mull over and to enjoy.
A thoughtful and even-handed book a lovely and relatable bildungsroman. A rare story told from the German point of view very much anti-Hitler but also making clear the conflicted positions of many “common” German people in the years leading up to the war. A Time to Love by Margot Benary-Isbert ~ 1962Īn excellent vintage teenage/young adult historical fiction set in the years just prior to and at the start of World War II. Fifteen-year-old Annegret of the earlier books The Blue Mystery and The Shooting Star goes away to boarding school and becomes very aware that the world beyond the sheltering walls of her family home is fast becoming a dark and dangerous place. These are books which, as I peruse my list of things read the past twelve months, don’t really fit into the main categories, and which, for the most part, I didn’t write reviews of, but which I nevertheless feel a warm surge of liking for as I come across their titles. Kicking off this week of lists – a most enjoyable aspect of looking back at the year just passed as we head into the longer days and bright promise of the new year – I am adding a fourth category: Books Which Pleased Me 2013. I will link these to other reviews, either by fellow bloggers, or on Goodreads or someplace similar. It was a surprisingly hectic year, and I missed writing quite a number of reviews, though the books themselves are too interesting to leave off these retrospective lists. I’ve arbitrarily decided which category best fits each book.Īnd though last year I included only books I had reviewed in full on the blog, this year some will sneak in which I’ve only briefly mentioned. I will be using the same categories for the books of 2013, though there was some overlap between Most Unexpected and Personal Favourites. Last year I came up with three very broad categories of outstanding books I had read in the previous year: Most Unexpected, Most Disappointing, and Personal Favourites. Time for a retrospective, then, to clear the decks for the year to come. It’s hard to believe a whole 12 months have raced by since the last Year-End Round-Up List, but the calendar doesn’t lie, and here we are only a few days from a brand new year.
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