parallel journeys ayer
A busy, busy week. Monday and Tuesday I spent working on ELA curriculum with a group of K-8 teachers. I have another day of that work next week. Wednesday we traveled down to North Attleboro, MA to meet our 2 sons. Younger Son is visiting from the West Coast and was spending a very short amount of time with his brother. We met them both, took them out to lunch, and then brought Younger Son home so that he could attend a friend's bachelor party. In fact, we dropped him off at another friend's house who took him to the party and then drove him back to our house at noon on Thursday! Then Younger Son and Dad drove to Springfield, MA to pick up Younger Son's girlfriend. They all got back here at 6:30 last night. Once the travelers decide to rise and shine, they plan on climbing the local mountain. It's a beautiful day to do that, but the morning's almost over, and they are still asleep! Tomorrow they go to the wedding they came east for. Meanwhile, I've also done some significant cleaning, had a lovely knitting afternoon with a good friend, and I've grocery shopped and cooked. And of course, I've read a couple more books!
The first is another installment in the Deborah Crombie Duncan Kincaid and Gemma Jones series:
Now May You Weep by Deborah Crombie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Another winner! Gemma James accompanies her best friend Hazel Cavendish on a cooking weekend in Scotland. To her dismay she discovers that Hazel is meeting the man she should have married. Meanwhile, Kit's grandmother is suing for custody, and Kit refuses to take a paternity test. Of course a murder occurs over Gemma's holiday weekend, and since she's out of her jurisdiction, she can't run the investigation. The focus of this installment is more on Gemma's relationships and her personal insights into her own motivations. I really liked this one.
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Parallel Journeys, a Holocaust novel by Eleanor Ayer, has 244 pages. This is a really sad book. The main characters in this book are Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Helen Waterford, a young Jew who is separated from her family during the Holocaust and Alfons Heck, a fifteen year old fanatic Hitler Youth leader. Parallel Journeys portrays their lives during WWII and the Holocaust. For Helen, she finds out what it feels to be "hunted" and for Alfon, it shows him what war does.