The Book of Names

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Some books hone in on a certain attribute – gender neutral names, say – which mean you are cutting out any names that don’t fit your remit before you’ve even begun. Give her the correct paper, ink and pens, Eva can easily create fake identity papers, birth certificates, ration cards, travel documents and copy signatures. Don’t even get me started the mustache twirling dastardly double agent that stuck out like a sore thumb or the sickly sweet romance that would give you cavities.

The book jumps between wartime and 2005 and while we know the significance of The Book of Lost Names pretty much from the start, we learn so much more about it and why it is even more important to Eva than we thought. Not only do you get pretty weird short stories but the narrator, NIGEL PEEVER has become one of my favorites as he takes the stories and gives them a creepy life of their own.We can’t speak for all such titles but would advise approaching with caution if you are a stickler for quality.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It was held in the Sanctuary of Dublin but at the end of the first book, Stephanie caught a glimpse of her three names in the book moments before detective Skulduggery Pleasant used the book as a shield from the Sceptre of the Ancients.

If she helps the resistance group, her mother has a place to stay and she feels like she is doing her part to get back at the Germans and she can’t do anything to help her father. However, the story relies on some leaps of faith (especially Eva’s ability to master forgeries as easily as she does). The Book of Lost Names, has a dual time line that’s very easy to follow, the story is a about family, sacrifice, duty, friendship, honor, betrayal and lost love. Loved this quote: “She doesn’t understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.Kristen Harmel is a New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, and many more novels. It was seen as a moral imperative: to demonstrate that behind the almost inconceivable number were real individuals whose lives were cut short by the Nazis. They can leave a child open to ridicule or ensure they spend their lives having to clarify spelling or resign them to sharing their name with another classmate or two. I thought it was such a worthwhile story to read, but I took off a star since the ending, while touching, was predictable and didn’t strike me as realistic.