"What's wrong?" Fredl asked, alarmed.
"I don't know, but something bad is going to happen. I can feel it in my bones. We have to leave right now!"
p. 19, Lizzi & Fredl, a biography by William B. Stanford.
Who and where am I? A young couple, master jeweler Fredl and dressmaker Lizzi, in Austria in 1938 decide to leave their home country for France, frightened by the "spreading threat of Nazism." Will France prove to be the safe haven they envision?
Here is the link to the full review of the book: Lizzi and Fredl review
Book provided by the author in exchange for my objective review.
TEASER TUESDAYS is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Choose two sentences from your current read, and add the author and title for readers. Anyone can join in.
Wow, that's a tense teaser. Very good choice.
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser...I always pay attention to what my intuition says to me!!
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser! Interesting book too.
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Good teaser. I like books set in this time period.
ReplyDeletethat sounds like a very good book. read my teaser here
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser! I love biographies...this one sounds good.
ReplyDeleteAmazing, heartfelt, tear jerker, best Holocaust book ever! He has website that is a must on...www.drwilliambstanford.com I'm jealous because you are all in for an unbelievable trip. I'm going to read it again when the kids are back in school.
ReplyDeleteWhat a teaser!
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Run for your lives!!! This sounds good. Here is mine
ReplyDeleteThat is one dramatic teaser! I've got a couple of good teasers this week. Here's a link.
ReplyDeleteSounds ominous! Good teaser.
ReplyDeleteI hope they make it!!
ReplyDeleteI have trouble reading Nazi-era lit, especially the true stuff. It makes my blood boil that people had to live in terror like that. What a nightmare. Great teaser! Here's mine.
ReplyDeleteNow that sounds like a fascinating book. I hope they make it through.
ReplyDeleteTerrific teaser, is this another heartbreaker?
ReplyDeleteGreat, suspenseful teaser! And very unnerving, thinking of all the things that could go wrong for them. Because if there's a book about it -- something went wrong in the story. Gah!
ReplyDeleteAhem. My own teaser is at Bookishgal.
Eeryone: thanks for commenting. The couple did survive to tell their separate tales many years later, to their son, the biographer.
ReplyDeletegreat teaser!!! I have this book on my to read pile. It does look like an excellent story.
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