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Devotion: Hannah Kent

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This book started out strong for me. It had a great premise- a weird, twisted relationship about a woman and her nanny. Their relationship was one of friendship, yet with a dark, obsession based theme that was fascinating. It was almost as if the women had a "frenemies" type relationship where they were in competition with each other. Knight says she tried to talk about her father with Hudner and her uncles. But the memories seemed too painful for them, so she stopped asking questions. She found some answers for her pain, though, when she started reading the long, poetic love letters her father mailed to her mother. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one. Kent says the novel crystallised after Australia’s 2017 marriage plebiscite. Dedicated to her wife, it is a paean to the peace two people can find in domesticity. It reads (perhaps relatedly) like a personal love letter; often beautiful, sometimes arrestingly so: “If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. If the sea dries, find me in its sand.” Fifteen year old Hanne lives with her parents and brother Matthias in a small village in Prussia in 1836. Their old Lutheran religion has been banned by the King in an attempt to unify the protestant churches, but they continue to worship in secret. Hanne is a girl who loves nothing better than being surrounded by nature, a plain looking girl with no real friends, she has trouble looking forward to the future of marriage and children that her community expects of all its young girls. However, when a new family moves to the village, Hanne is immediately drawn to their daughter Thea and a deep friendship and love develops between them.

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?My thoughts on this book are rather long, because of the emotions that it has stirred in me: Pride of the fighting men, grief for their losses and happiness for the good that came from it. Brown's 1944 high school graduation photo. He was such a brilliant student that one of his instructors let him teach when she was busy with other work. Daisy Brown Thorne a b "95TH OSCARS® SHORTLISTS IN 10 AWARD CATEGORIES ANNOUNCED". press.oscars.org . Retrieved December 22, 2022.

Their daughter, Thea, is Hanne’s age, but Hanne isn’t interested in meeting more people. She prefers to be alone in the forest, listening to the magic there. As the ending approached, it fell a bit short for me. I was expecting much more from the continuous build up throughout the book. Without spoiling it for anyone, I personally felt like it left me with some unanswered questions, which of course was the intent but I was hoping for more of a clean cut ending. So the ending fell a little flat for me. Otherwise a great debut. I am looking forward to what the author comes up with next! 3.5 stars a b c Barber, James (August 4, 2022). "Korean War Drama 'Devotion' Used Real Vintage Aircraft to Tell a True Story". military.com.Demps,” he’d say, “when people realize that we’re created as one human race, then we’ll be better off as a people.” A tug-at-the-heartstrings tale of bravery and selflessness, Devotion asks: How far would you go to save a friend?

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