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book review “If I Should Die Before I Wake” By Han Nolan

February 25, 2010 by

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By: Han Nolan

I wasn’t around during World War 2 but this book makes me feel like I was. When Jews where being forced from their homes. But was nothing that Hilary had to worry about because Hillary absolutely hated Jews. Hilary is a stubborn and Being part of the neo-Nazi gang in her town that was determined on finishing Hitler’s work on the demise of the Jews. But everything changes when she is critically injured and put in a Jewish hospital, where she is sent into a live that she has never lived. The live of a Jew named Chana who is living through World War 2.

Being forced from her home in Poland by the Nazis, her and her family is sent to the Lodz Ghetto. A terrible clouded place where the Jews are dumping Jew families from all over. Where they get little one room hotel for families with 5-8 people and even less food and water. These horrable conditions caused many to die and others to kill themselves.

As Chana and her sister Bubbe and the rest of her family try and survive through this horrible place. Hilary experiences everything that Chana is going through as if she is the same person. But as she connects back to the real world the only thing she can see in her coma is an old Jew woman.

I love this book because not only do I feel like Hilary going through the coma. But I also feel like in going through to the past of World War 2 with Chana and living through her life as well.

Chana and bubbe plan their exacape and getting new names as non-Jews. They get help to get to a train set to go to a safe place for Jews. But all goes wrong when one of chana’s old classmates recognize her and bubbe and gets them caught.

As Hilary Is going through this with Chana she is also going through a lot with her mother coming to visit her in the hospital. After her mother abandoning her as a child she never felt the same about her. I felt a connection to this as I felt I was abandoned by my parents when I was little.

Chana felt abandoned too. Abandoned by god. She felt like he left her and didn’t care anymore. Her constant struggle of trying to find faith gets her in a lot of internal debates and when she finally finds her faith again everything gets a little better for her.

To find out how chana and Hilary survive their battles and struggles you have to read the book “If I Should Die before I Wake” by Han Noland.

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Dance With a Vampire By Ellen Schareiber

October 23, 2009 by

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The title of my book is Dance with a Vampire. The main characters of the book are Raven a goth girl that’s a outsider of her family and the rest of the town, Alexander the new kid that moved into the creepy old Manichean on the top of the hill. He is also a vampire and Ravens perfect boyfriend, Valentine a creepy preteen that came to Dullsville, then there is Billy Ravens younger nerd brother.

The plot of the story is that Valentine came to Romania to find his older brother and sister because they didn’t return when they went to Dullsville to get revenge on Alexander for shamming there family and leaving Romania. The setting of the book is a little boring town called Dullsville. The problem in the story is that Alexander and Raven are busy trying 2 find out why Valentine is in Dullsville and what he wants. Valentine gets really close with with Billy and reading the minds of him, Raven, Alexander, and a popular soccer player to try and  find out what happened to his brother and sister while they where in Dullsville.

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