I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries. The result is a terrifying and heartbreaking memoir, extraordinary for its frankness and courage. As he noted, "If I do not speak, I will become the accomplice of my torturers". Finally, haunted by his experiences and by the silence of others, he decided to bear witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. "The Liberation", he writes, "was for others". He found a wife through a personal ad, married, and raised three children. For nearly forty years he kept his experiences - including torture, humiliation, and witnessing the vicious murder of his lover at the hands of the Nazis - a secret in order to cover up his homosexuality. So begins the astonishing chain of events that led to the Schirmeck-Vorbruch concentration camp, where Seel suffered unspeakable horrors for the sole "crime" of being a homosexual.The story of survival in the camps has been told many times, but Seel's is one of the only firsthand accounts of the Nazi roundup and deportation of homosexuals. The Book Report: At the age of seventeen, in the arms of a thief, Pierre Seel felt his watch sliding off his wrist.
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I picture a handsome Middle Eastern man like Naveen Andrews with Hugh Jackman’s tall frame and Wolverine body, but with long black hair…Oh, and G/B has gray skin, so ethnicity doesn’t doesn really matter here.įrom Google search- | from Google search- When I think of how G/B feels about and interacts with the overall story and the other characters, I think of the song, Thank You by Dido. But I do have a specific look in mind when I picture him. For him, I think I’d try to cast a complete unknown so there would be no preconceived notions about how this character would act. Giovanni/Bletsian is a kind of a shape-shifter with angelic and demonic ancestry. Giovanni– He’s the title character of the first book and is actually a dual character. So here is it, the line-up for, Eternal Curse: Battleground…Character Spoilers present but no plot points. The idea of casting the characters of this book for a movie blew my mind, and don’t even get me started on the soundtrack. There’s so much more of this story to be told. This first book, Eternal Curse: Giovanni’s Angel, just came out, but I’m not sitting around idly waiting for people to fall in love with it. I have several WIPs at the moment, but the one I’m most excited about is the follow-up to my first novel. This blog hop is co-hosted by Kyra Lennon and Rachel Schieffelbein. This evocative plea for the power of love in the heart of Middle East turmoil, the story of a young American woman of singular charm, shifts uneasily between tragedy and fantasy. But all the right quest elements are here, and with a bit more balance (less forced clownishness, a more natural flow of narrative tension), the sequel could be a book well worth the wait. Janner’s loving family injects the fantasy tropes with heartfelt sincerity, which lies incongruously among the gags, silly names and fake footnotes. Over the course of a few too many nick-of-time rescues, the children learn their predictable great secret. The ruler of the Fangs, wicked Gnag the Nameless, wants nothing more than the mythical Jewels of Anniera-and the local Fangs think Janner’s family is hiding them. Still, in a world run by the stinky, lizard-like Fangs of Dang, Janner can’t be too careful. Janner loves younger brother Tink and sister Leeli, but he wishes it wasn’t always his job to protect them. In the goofy fantasy land of Skree, where “totato” gardens are infested with “thwaps” and the town fool dances in circles with socks on his hands, three children find themselves embroiled in the fight against evil. Lyrical and heart-wrenching.beautiful representation, sweetest longing and the pop-star romance of my dreams Swifties will swoon happily with this story tattooed on their hearts." -Erin Hahn, author of You'd Be Mine and More Than Maybe " It Goes Like This was everything my music nerd heart needed AND wanted. As they prepare for one last show, they'll discover whether growing up always means growing apart. That is, until a storm devastates their hometown, bringing the four ex-best-friends back together. Gina and Celeste step further into the spotlight, Steph disappears completely, and Eva, heartbroken, takes refuge as a songwriter and secret online fangirl.of her own band. After all, they've been though a lot together, including the astronomical rise of Moonlight Overthrow, the world-famous queer pop band they formed in middle school, never expecting to headline anything bigger than the county fair.īut after a sudden falling out leads to the dissolution of the teens' band, their friendship, and Eva and Celeste's starry-eyed romance, nothing is the same. In Miel Moreland's heartfelt young adult debut, It Goes Like This, four queer teens realize that sometimes you have to risk hitting repeat on heartbreak.Įva, Celeste, Gina, and Steph used to think their friendship was unbreakable. |