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Originally Posted by Catlady
Thanks for the info on Here to Stay.
What did you think of A Woman from Berlin? I have the audiobook on hold at my library.
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It was very interesting, it's one of my top 10 books now. I had been wanting to read it for a while, but was a little afraid of what was happening in Berlin in the last days of the war and when the Russians first conquered the city. The author wrote it while it was happening and was a journalist. She thought it was important to write about it although she never thought it would become a book at the time. It reads like a journal and her writing is objective. She simply describes what it was like day to day. Each person did what they could to survive. It's all the little things that surprised me the most. Like the Russians never went up to the higher floors in apartment buildings. They didn't trust them and avoided those floors. The author lived on the 4th or top floor, but she didn't feel safe so stayed with a neighbor on the second floor. When it was safe after a few weeks she went back to her apartment. Nothing was touched no footprints on the floor and even her radio was still there. It's things like that that no one knew, but happened. I think it's an important book and I'm glad I finally read it. Let me know how you liked the audio version. Catlady
