Waiting On Wednesday

Waiting On Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

My pick for this week's WOW is The Journal of Helene Berr:

Synopsis

Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.


On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris — about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the “boy with the grey eyes,” about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect of the growing restrictions imposed by France’s Nazi occupiers. Berr brought a keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking.

• Publisher: Weinstein Books
• Pub. Date: November 03, 2009
• ISBN-13: 9781602860940
• Sales Rank: 125,904
• 304pp

What books are YOU waiting for today?