Tuesday, August 21, 2012

That would be 4:30 on Fridays



Another person turned in notice today in our department. Shrinking. I didn't see much to apply for in the listings this weekend. Maybe one.

I’m currently reading BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas. This is a biography, a digital loan from the library. Here is a description:
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and author who died at age 39. In thisNew York Times best-selling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer’s life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer’s heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler’s Germany, and sheds new light on Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in “Operation 7,” the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII.

It was published in 2011 and has 624 pages.

I don't think there's anything for me on TV tonight so perhaps I'll have a chance to read.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

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