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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (Vintage International)

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Keep it on your windowsill for the whole family to enjoy and see who becomes the bird song expert first. I'm happy to report, though, that I never had to get involved in the activity of sapping, or tunnelling. Kate Saunders, reviewing Birdsong for The Sunday Times, praised the novel and described it as "without the political cynicism that colours more modern treatments of this catastrophe".

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It was my dad who recommended it to me, and all the way through the book I was wondering why he loved it so much. There seem to be few garden bird books available for very young children, so when this board book came along targeted at age 3 and above I was intrigued to see what it had to offer. And not just on the British side, in All Quiet on the Western Front there is a particularly poignant scene where Paul visits home and realises that everything has stayed the same, but completely incomprehensible to someone who has seen what he has seen. Of course the child is dead, and his father's every reason for imagining his own survival dissolves. But the turning point for me was the totally extraneous subplot involving Elizabeth, Stephen’s granddaughter, and the eye-rollingly unbelievable climax of her story.Your skin will crawl with lice, you will feel the slip and muck of blood and brains underneath your boots; hell, you'll feel your toes crumbling with trenchfoot inside your rotting boots. It did, but the most powerful, thought provoking thing about this book is what happened to the men in the trenches during WW I. The novel frequently changes narrative perspectives, using a significant amount of interior monologue, direct speech and dramatic irony. Wild Berries was also chosen as Canada’s First Nation Communities Read title selection for 2014–2015.

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BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Like other novels documenting WWI, the shock and trauma of death is embedded throughout the book's depiction of the war. Faulks' writing is truly outstanding, the fear and hopelessness felt by the men is made vivid and terrifyingly portrayed. He was in the trenches and as I read I pictured him there among the rats, the mud, the awfulness of war. A spellbinding novel that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.If you know anything about the war, whether it’s due to an interest in history, you’ve read books, you’ve listened to your grandparent’s talking about it… you know that this actually happened. If they could shout loud enough, they might bring the world back to its senses; they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead. Elizabeth finally decides to reveal her pregnancy to her mother Françoise, who, to Elizabeth's surprise, is supportive. Having had the privilege of sitting with Somme veterans, listening to their vivid memories of the trenches and the contacts, and those friends who lost their lives, I can say, with great confidence, that the superb writing of Birdsong takes us as close to being there as is possible.

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This was also a book that took me nearly 5 months to read, because the intro in Amiens was a bit of a drag for me, young man lusting over hot wife, know what I mean? The war reshaped him, and at the end we discovered along with Stephen himself, the will to live and the compassion to others that he never had thought he possessed. He attended Wellington College and studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, although he didn’t enjoy attending either institution. Tens of thousands of men simply go missing, their names recorded on monuments such as the arch at Thiépval, which so shocks Stephen's grand-daughter Elizabeth in the section of the novel set in the 1970s: "names teeming, reeling, over surfaces of yards, of hundreds of yards, over furlongs of stone". Flett offers a love and recognition of nature and its tranquil effects, suggesting that even as days come to pass, nature will always remain.When Agnes becomes unwell, Katherina thinks of a lovely way she can show her friend things she has seen outdoors. With minimalist, evocative illustrations of the Canadian countryside, this book is a joy read (or just look at). Through their friendship, Katharena learns to love her new home and comforts Agnes during an illness. The part of his mind that remained calm accepted this; if the necessity could not be denied, then the question was only whether it could be achieved with her consent. Reviews of the novel often focus on the fluid reading experience as well as the novel's effective treatment of "'real' people" within the trauma of war.

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