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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1245 on: November 14, 2009, 11:45:15 am »
I just finished a book called "The Lost Hours" and really liked it.

It reminded me a lot of "The Thirteenth Tale". 

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1246 on: November 14, 2009, 08:30:07 pm »
Quote from: Kaybo on November 12, 2009, 07:22:16 am
Well, I definitely have a question (b/c I am a dumb blond, not a thought provoking discussion ?) but i want to wait until Nancy finishes it to ask...

Okay, I think we are ready for it.  ;D

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1247 on: November 14, 2009, 09:13:17 pm »
OK...so I know WHO took the Haggadah and kind of WHY...but what do you think?  WHY did he take it if he was just going to hide it again?  Was it /c he wanted it in his country or something...but wasn't that Vienna??
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1248 on: November 14, 2009, 10:52:22 pm »
Hey, no fair, that is a thought provoking discussion question, you were supposed to ask a ditzy blond question. Now I have to reread that last chapter. :)

I think Werner Heinrich felt guilty about his role burning Jewish books during WWII, since he was Mr. Book Restorer. So he became obsessed with preserving the Haggadah, even if it meant stashing it away where no one could see it.

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« Reply #1249 on: November 14, 2009, 11:04:55 pm »
I thought it was because he considered Sarajevo to be unstable still, and there would be a chance that the Haggadah would be destroyed. That is also the only reason I can think of why Ozren would collaborate with him.

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« Reply #1250 on: November 15, 2009, 06:45:08 am »
Well, perhaps a combination.  Each man had his own reason.  Ozren was distraught over his son's death and blamed recent events for his pain.  Did he seem to give up on the ideal of religious and cultural coexistence in Sarajevo because of his son's death?
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« Reply #1251 on: November 15, 2009, 07:40:25 am »
so no one is super clear or sure about this besides me?  I feel so much less ignorant!!

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1252 on: November 15, 2009, 08:04:59 am »
Okay, so what about all my ditzy brunette questions bottom of page 84 of this thread?
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1253 on: November 15, 2009, 08:45:25 am »
Sorry, Nancy...I only saw one question & I thought that you said you were going to reread...I don't think it ever tells what becomes of anyone...

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1254 on: November 15, 2009, 10:10:26 am »
Too deep for my, Kaybo!  One of those thought provoking things we'll never really have an answer to, I guess...

Nancy, I also wanted to know what happended to Ruti and the baby...was the same for several of the stories.  She (the author) did such great job of pulling us into each storyline...I wanted more...but I suppose the rest of the individual stories had nothing to do w/ the Book, so she couldn't keep going with those stories...but, I would have found them interesting!

This is one I will go back and read again one day,

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1255 on: November 15, 2009, 02:00:47 pm »
Lola is the only character from the past that we meet again, so we can feel free to speculate about the rest.

As far as Ruti and the baby go, it's not too hard to figure out what happens to the baby since she is taking him on an ocean voyage without a means of feeding him. But who knows . . . perhaps there is a lactating mother on board willing to help her out. See? Speculation can be fun.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1256 on: November 15, 2009, 02:25:47 pm »
Okay, well I was sort of hoping Ruti was the patron lady in the gondola since she said she received it as a gift.  But then, we could never imagine she would convert to Christianity after her brother's ordeal and her response to the expulsion of Jews by Ferdinand and Isabella.
I was hoping that the baby was the priest who had flashbacks about being an orphan of Jewish descent, but I didn't have time to go back to read the name he was recalling in his nightmares.

Also, not blond since the third grade and who knows if there's any brunette left?
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1257 on: November 15, 2009, 03:40:39 pm »
Good thoughts, Nancy...see, I would have never thought about that....I have already turned the book in or I would look it up...maybe I'll go to B&N...

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1258 on: November 15, 2009, 03:55:27 pm »
I think that too many tie-ins and coincidences would erode the believability of the story. It was enough that Lola found the real Haggadah.

And to throw in a completely random thought, I was glad that the second pair of earrings did not surface.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1259 on: November 15, 2009, 08:06:01 pm »
Quote from: donnalynn on November 15, 2009, 08:03:29 pm
Hi Just jumping in here.. BTW what book are we talking about regarding the Haggadah?
It sounds very interesting to me......

will follow this one! :)
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