Reading Update

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This morning, I read about 30 pages in The Man Who Broke into Aushwitz by Denis Avey, so I'm finally at the halfway mark.  I bought that one around three years ago at Barnes & Noble as a bargain book.  It's actually really good, but I have this bad habit of ignoring my own books (including those on my Kindle) to pile up on library books.

With this particular book, there is some controversy surrounding the author's account of "breaking in" to Auschwitz, but it's still a gripping story and hard to put down when I'm actually reading it.  BTW, he's a POW at the camp, but is housed with other soldiers in a different section from the Jewish prisoners, so it's not as if he just krept in from the outside.

On another note, since I hadn't started them yet, I decided to return Independent People by Halldór Laxness and Dark Town by Thomas Mullen to the library for now, and pick them up some other time.

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