Books by Ramona Ausubel
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review 1: While at first I was skeptical due to the occasionally flowery language and title in and of itself that lead me to think of new age self-help manuals and a the various groups that consider themselves to be "Born Again" after some mystical happening. I was not prepared for any su...
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review 1: I had a really hard time getting into this book and I even had a hard time staying interested. I did not look forward to picking it up, yet while reading I often felt transfixed. There was such beauty in the melancholic writing. That said, I often put it down because the tears wo...
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review 1: Twice while reading this book, I found myself sobbing. That's the first sign I have that it's a good book. I'm not often moved to tears by things I read.The cadence of the words of this book stick with me when I've closed the covers, and that's another way I know it's good.But "g...
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review 1: This story of an isolated Jewish village in Romania reads like an allegory or fable. The villagers decide to save themselves from the encroaching war (WWII) by starting a new world. They throw out their clocks, traditions, and question all ways of being. New possibilities open up...
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review 1: I find it remarkably indicative of the depth of the scars left by the experience of the Holocaust that we are here, 70 years--and in Ausubel's case, several generations--removed from the events of the late 30s and early 40s, and we are still struggling to find fresh ways to descr...