Maybe I’m just in a depressing mood. Both of the books that I’m currently reading are super depressing and while trying to decide on my flashback book this week, I realized that all of my options were fairly depressing too. Ah well. I guess it is the dead of winter. I’ll give you something cheerier come April.
I read this for the first time when I was in forth grade. We were taking those standardized state tests. I have always been a quick test taker, so I’d finish before some people had their names written on their papers, then I’d get to read in silence for the next 2 hours. Bliss. I remember reading this during one of these times and my throat just closing up. This is the first book that I have a memory of bringing me to tears. This may have been my first real, non-fiction exposure to the Holocaust. I was fascinated and repelled and just in love with the real girl who was Anne Frank. Even to this day I have this morbid draw to books about World War II and the concentration camps and all that. I think that that probably started with this book.
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Anne Frank was a book that rocked my life as pre-teen. It’s sad yes, but kind of uplifting too to know that her kind of thoughts and optimism existed in such a horrible and oppresive climate. Good pick I say!
Oh and I flashbacked!
http://becauseperfectionisboring.blogspot.com/2010/02/flashback-friday_12.html
I think it’s awesome that you read this in fourth grade, and we were just talking about how it was banned in an eighth grade classroom. People are so stupid. You obviously were not corrupted…or were you??
Here’s my flashback!
http://seeheatherwrite.blogspot.com/2010/02/flashback-friday-enchanted-forest.html
I love this book.
My 12 year old brother is currently developing an obsession with all things WWII. He has read a few books about the time period, and my sister took him to the Museum of Tolerance. Not sure what it is about that time period that is so intriguing.
Here is my flashback:
http://angieeatspeace.blogspot.com/2010/02/flash-back-friday-get-happy.html
You’ve chosen my sisters all-time favorite book. Great choice!
My FlashBack is something a little lighter this week:
http://ashleyt12.blogspot.com/2010/02/flashback-friday-sarah-plain-and-tall.html
It’s been so long since I’ve read this book..great pick!
Here’s mine: http://crystalsbookblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/flashback-friday-1.html
Great choice! I also read about it being censored in an 8th grade classroom in Virginia, very sad.
I’ve never done Flashback Friday so here is my very first one!
http://www.sweetteaandtheredsox.wordpress.com
Great choice!
Here’s my first post for Flashback Friday:
http://www.sweetteaandtheredsox.wordpress.com
I LOVE Anne Frank. Oh, and I have a blog award for you over at my blog.