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children of steel (audio: 2011)

Diane Ackerman: The Zookeeper’s Wife

My mother mentioned this–well, the film–to me, specifically the part about Antonina’s habit of playing music when Nazi sympathizers or mixed company came calling to warn the people in the underground to cease activity and “practice the silence of the tomb.” It popped up when I was looking for my next title, so I went with it. I was only half paying attention to my mother when she told me about it, so I didn’t really know what I was getting into.

It is the telling of historical first-hand accounts of the events leading up to, surrounding, and after the Holocaust. From diaries, interviews, news reports and a variety of official and otherwise documentation, we learn about the life of Antonina Zabinski, a Polish Christian, and the Jewish refugee underground.

In addition to human accounts, the book is filled with well-timed and well-told information about animals and plants and how a lot of the attention paid to them at the time correlated with the many experiments and ideologies of the Nazis. The story’s telling is clever and rather bizarre and I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such a method for relaying historical information. You kind of fall in love with some of the “characters” but a line or two later you’re reminded–in such a matter of fact and oddly pleasant way–that they are not characters but people who lived in horrible times.

blackout (audio: 2011)

wraith world (audio: 2010)

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Hooray for Photoshop!

The Well-Mannered War (Big Finish, 2015; artwork by Daryl Joyce from ebook edition)

Last of the Gaderene (BBC Physical Audio, 2015; artwork by Black Sheep)

City of Death (BBC Physical Audio, 2015; artwork from 1991 VHS)

Five Stars for this Gem

♫ The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth ★★★★★ Source: Audible Edition: AudioGO (2007), Unabridged MP3, 12h22 Awards & Distinctions: Booker Prize Longlist (2006) Original publication date: 2006

This book by the fine historical novelist Barry Unsworth is set in 1149 Palermo, Sicily, where power struggles between East and West have left King Roger hard pressed to maintain his throne. Both the Pope and…