Got One Book Down Today with My Kindle

Thanks to My Beloved Kindle (love it, love it, love it), I am reading voraciously. It just seems like I am able to read easier because I can read anywhere, anytime, etc. Plus, my books are cheaper and I get them immediately. My books are not cumbersome and heavy. If I get tired of one book, I switch to a different book. Then when I am done with a book, I can save it to an SD card and save it that way. If I am reading a book and don't understand a word, I scroll to the word and hit look up and it looks it up (cool). I can highlight passages, bookmark, etc. I just plain love it. Oh did I already say that. :-)

So today, I finished off, "The Reader." It's pretty short. It has a lot of disturbing subjects in it, the Holocost, statutory rape of boy (he may be 15, but she was 38), and the after affects of that relationship on a boy. A lot people would say, "That's every boy's fantasy to have a relationship with an older woman when he is under 18", but I beg to differ and it will ultimately be a disaster and this book shows how in part III a little. Now that I am done reading the book, a lot of the it can be taken as allegory, for Nazis and the German people and their seduction by the Nazis and the after effects. That's a little deep for me, but I can see some of that when I think hard enough (some smoke comes out the ears, but I can do it)

As I read the book, I thought about two people I knew in high school. Unfortunately I am horrible with names, but one was a German exchange student who was in my math class and the other was my German teacher/math teacher one year in high school.

The German exchange student was amazed about the things she was learning about World War II history because she said that it was not taught at all in her country which I found shocking. This was in 1988. She said that World War II is just completely glossed over and not talked about in school. Now, remember this is before reunification started in 1989, so I don't know if that changed now.

The other was my German Teacher. He didn't mind talking about the war, but he wanted to talk about how the American's bombed his home town when he was a baby and that we committed war crimes and should have been brought to Nuremburg (sp) too. Now this is German class. I remember his yelling, "We didn't have any factories near my home town!" and one of my class mates yelled back, "How do you know if you were a baby?" As we all know, you can't believe everything that you are told from the authorities. This guy was just full of anger too, because I believe he got in trouble for hitting a student in math class. He said that is how things are done in Germany, but he was still reprimanded.