Comments on The Boston Bibliophile: Happy Bastille Day!

Great list! I posted a link to it on my French Connections list and am going to incorporate several of these into my list as well.

Thanks for visiting Rose City Reader and leaving a link to this!

Wandering Star, Dangerous Liasons and A Very Long ...

2009-07-16T22:15:05.465-04:00

Wandering Star, Dangerous Liasons and A Very Long Engagement are excellent books.

What a great post this is!

Lorri

Thank you for the post. I have a friend who is fl...

2009-07-14T23:47:40.444-04:00

Thank you for the post. I have a friend who is fluent in French and spent several years living in Switzerland. I will definitely share your list with her.

Hi Marie, the French Film Festival is underway at the MFA, so you can fill your eyes with French film until end of the month.

Thank you for sharing some of your favorites, Mari...

2009-07-14T20:21:09.064-04:00

Thank you for sharing some of your favorites, Marie! I've seen the movie Dangerous Liaisons, but I hadn't known it was based on a book.

I need to get back to Les Miserables. I started it one summer between school terms and then once school started, had to set it aside. I never did get back to it. I've always regretted that.

What a great post! I'm interested in French l...

2009-07-14T13:50:38.708-04:00

What a great post! I'm interested in French literature but never know what to read. Thanks for sharing some of your favorites.

Sometimes authors use a novel or screenplay to su...

2009-07-14T13:44:29.748-04:00

Sometimes authors use a novel or screenplay to support political or social beliefs; or to cry out for morality and ethical prinicples. This is no more clearly evident than with Holocaust books and films. Even love stories can be used as a platform for morality and ethical considerations. Whenever we stand up to those who deny or minimize the Holocaust, or to those who support genocide we send a critical message to the world.

We live in an age of vulnerability. Holocaust deniers ply their mendacious poison everywhere, especially with young people on the Internet. We know from captured German war records that millions of innocent Jews (and others) were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany - most in gas chambers. Holocaust books and films help to tell the true story of the Shoah, combating anti-Semitic historical revision. And, they protect future generations from making the same mistakes.

I wrote "Jacob's Courage" to promote Holocaust education. This coming of age love story presents accurate scenes and situations of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps, with particular attention to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. It examines a constellation of emotions during a time of incomprehensible brutality. A world that continues to allow genocide requires such ethical reminders and remediation.

Many authors feel compelled to use their talent to promote moral causes. Holocaust books and movies carry that message globally, in an age when the world needs to learn that genocide is unacceptable. Such authors attempt to show the world that religious, racial, ethnic and gender persecution is wrong; and that tolerance is our progeny's only hope.

Charles Weinblatt
Author, "Jacob's Courage"
http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/

Wonderful list! And I love the watercolor on A Li...

2009-07-14T11:56:32.458-04:00

Wonderful list! And I love the watercolor on A Little Bit of Paris. It looks like a good book to help daydream about trips to France.

Happy Bastille Day! Thanks for sharing your list...

2009-07-14T11:12:47.025-04:00

Happy Bastille Day!

Thanks for sharing your list with us. Now I have some great books to add to my list that probably would've taken longer to find without your help.

Vasilly

I'm so impressed that you can read in French! ...

2009-07-14T07:37:29.994-04:00

I'm so impressed that you can read in French! We lived in France for two years and I could read enough French to get by, but never enough to read for pleasure. Viva la France!