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    [REVIEW] The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne.

    July 4, 2017 /

     Set in World War 2 from a 9-year-old boy’s point of view. The beginning is just run-of-the-mill descriptions of family, life and friends, set in the early 1940’s. Nothing really happens except moving to new house in first 100 pages.  The part where it starts to get interesting is when the boy Bruno moves with his family to what he calls “Out-with” because of his father’s connections to the “Fury” which we know it as Auschwitz and the Fuhrer – IE. Adolf Hitler. It starts to get eerie & unsettling as an adult reader because we understand a lot more than Bruno. You can tell this book was aimed at children…

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I’m 30 something years old, from South Wales, (near Cardiff) UK.

I volunteered at the library 2017-2020, then re-joined as a volunteer in 2022, after Covid & Lockdown ended.

I started this blog in May 2017.

Full-time Creative, who loves pasta & eating freshly cooked food while drinking lots of coffee & alcohol…
*Favourites include Costa, Nescafe | Gordons (pink), Smirnoff & Carling*

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