1.
For Les Miserables fans:
Cosette: The Sequel to Les Miserables, Laura Kalpakian
http://www.amazon.co…36936888&sr=1-5
2.
For those that enjoy Emily Dickinson:
Rose MacMurray’s Afternoons with Emily
http://www.amazon.co…y/dp/0316017604
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For those that enjoy Sylvia Plath:
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath Stephanie Hemphill
http://www.amazon.co…t/dp/037583799X
And lastly, 4.
I hesitate to even mention this one, as it is one that has stopped me reading altogether almost 2 years ago, (long but very interesting story that I don’t want to fray up this thread to discuss it)
for Phantom Phans, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK:
My Phantom: The Memoir of Christine Daaé written by Anstance Tamplin
http://www.amazon.co…é/dp/0982457901
And lastly, 4.
And since I am not counting the last one, I will get to add this one:
A Noble Treason written by Richard Hanser
The White Rose was a resistance group, an anti-Hitler group founded by students in Germany. These students and affiliates from 1942-43 secretly distributed leaflets around various cities, doing what they could to passively resist the totalatarian government they were all under. At the time, everyone was watched to curb such resistance, but they managed to get plenty of these leaflets out there, but some were eventually caught and the main ones beheaded by Nazis. Though they were religious (Christian) in nature, some of these leaflets and their story I have found so interesting. This book was well written, too, in description of the group. Let me show you fine examples of that with quotations:
What made the shock to the Nazi heirarchy so jolting was that this is the first opposition to the rule of Adolf Hitler that had broken through to the light of day. It was the first public break in the universal lockstep imposed on German society by its leaders.
Now the state itself was reacting as if the whole National Socialist system were suddenly in mortal danger. And not from the massive assaults of the Red armies in the East, or from the invasion that was sure to come in the West, but from these three - a girl and two young men - […]
What was most disturbing to the judge and the prosecution was that all three of the accused had grown up under the aegis of National Socialism and had been schooled, trained, and nurtured by it. The National Socialist state had indoctrinated them from their earliest youth, shaping their views of the world and saturating their minds with the philosophy of Adolph Hitler and his political movement.
This was not the reaction of a normal government which had merely caught a few of its young citizens agitating against the status quo, as young people so often do. It was, rather, as if the authorities, to their horror, had accidentally uncovered a coven of witches and warlocks capable of bringing the whole structure of the state crashing down with the dark magic of their abominable incantations - those forbidden words that were being scattered to the four winds of Germany on scraps of paper called leaflets.
Here’s what one of the leaflets distributed said:
Sabotage in armament plants and war industries, sabotage at all gatherings, rallies, public ceremonies, and organizations of the National Socialist Party. Obstruction of the smooth functioning of the war machine (a machine for war that goes on solely to shore up and perpetuate the National Socialist Party and its dictatorship). Sabotage in all the areas of science and scholarship which further the continuation of the war - whether in universities, technical schools, laboratories, research institutes, or technical bureaus. Sabotage in all cultural institutions which could potentially enhance the “prestige” of the fascists among the people. Sabotage in all branches of the arts which have even the slightest dependence on National Socialism or render it service. Sabotage in all publications, all newspapers, that are in the pay of the “government” and that defend its ideology and aid in disseminating the brown lie.
