In between "bigger" reads, I am supplementing with books from the juvenile section at the library. I came home with three Tuesday and have read two of them.
Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice is a story of a boy who faces some terrible encounters with a killer. He is haunted by his decision to let this man live and it wracks his conscience that he "could have" done more. This feeling is very human and every individual seems to experience this type of dilemma at some point in their life. He begins to fixate on an outcome he believes will make all the horrors go away, yet when the same outcome happens by another force, he realizes that life has a way of going on no matter the turmoil of any person. I enjoyed her take on the language of the time period and the essential essence of the plot, but it did not fulfill any other satisfaction within me.
The other book I have completed this week is Eva Wiseman's Puppet. The terrible trial of innocent Jews is pushed forward as a young Jewish boy is forced to testify that several Jewish men are responsible for the death of a Christian servant girl. I respect Wiseman's writing as she focused on a historical fiction story of such a tragedy. I found myself hurrying through the book to discover if yet another travesty had befallen such a persecuted religious group. I had never heard of this trial or the implications of it. However, I feel enlightened to more of the ever present hate that tends to follow this poor group of God-fearers. It amazes me at the way these people have triumphed over such great odds through the years.
I look forward to the reading of Winnie's War by Jenny Moss, especially as I am an aspiring author and this is her first book.
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