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danperlman's review
4.0
I read this following on another of the same title and same subject matter (by Sarah Lew Miller), a teenage girl's story of survival during the Nazi years....
Staying in virtually the same theme, we once again have a teenager's diary, in essence, of the same. So, I'll start it with the same opening as the previous review.... Understandably, given the subject matter - a teenage Jewish girl's story of her family's survival during WWII, it's kind of hard not to compare it to the more famous work of Anne Frank. But it's not the same story - different countries, different situations, different outcomes. The book is well written, and although phrased in first person, is, as above, an "as told to", by the author. The life of young Berta Weissberger, and the place and time that the book covers, are actually pretty interesting, a bit more so, or perhaps it's just the quality of the writing, than the previous book. The biggest issue in this book is that the book is almost as interminable as the six years it covers - it goes on for nearly 600 pages, detailing day to day life in, at times, excruciatingly unnecessary detail, as one day after another often looks much like the previous day. Still, I found it an engaging read and worth recommending.
Staying in virtually the same theme, we once again have a teenager's diary, in essence, of the same. So, I'll start it with the same opening as the previous review.... Understandably, given the subject matter - a teenage Jewish girl's story of her family's survival during WWII, it's kind of hard not to compare it to the more famous work of Anne Frank. But it's not the same story - different countries, different situations, different outcomes. The book is well written, and although phrased in first person, is, as above, an "as told to", by the author. The life of young Berta Weissberger, and the place and time that the book covers, are actually pretty interesting, a bit more so, or perhaps it's just the quality of the writing, than the previous book. The biggest issue in this book is that the book is almost as interminable as the six years it covers - it goes on for nearly 600 pages, detailing day to day life in, at times, excruciatingly unnecessary detail, as one day after another often looks much like the previous day. Still, I found it an engaging read and worth recommending.
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