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Originally Posted by Luffy
I also never read anything with that subject matter, but NOT because it's too emotional. My reaction to that is that I am reluctant to get immersed in the story and I dread the book will be sad and grim(like you) BUT UNLIKE you I also feel that a book like The Book thief(a book that I had to abandon) is using the time period to easily and basely manipulate my emotions (which is of course what any book will try to achieve ) but I feel the holocaust thing is too obvious a setting and I feel I'm being taxed and subjugated...if that makes sense at all. I don't want to be aware that I'm being manipulated.
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I understand what you're saying.
The subjects are just too real and close to home for me.
My great, great, great grandmother (There may be one more "great" in there - I'm not sure) was a 12 year girl, when she was forced (like all the others with her) off of a slave ship, right off of the coast of the Bahamas. The captain was trying to avoid being caught, as slavery had just been abolished.
Thankfully, she survived the swim, which is how my mother's family and I came to be Bahamian. Her name was Georgette.