It's pretty sad that this one took me forever to decide on this one. I haven't read much since high school...kind of pathetic. I have a ton of books on my shelves and some audiobooks loaded on my iPod, but I'm too lazy to go through them.
One of my most memorable books is Summer of My German Soldier that I read in high school. Even though Casi decided to tell me the ending half way through, I still found it very good. The story takes place in Arkansas during WWII. Apparently there's a POW camp nearby and one of the german soliders escapes. The lead girl is a sheltered teenager with an abusive father and finds the escaped soldier on the lamb. She ends up hiding him in the garage apartment in her family's house. They don't really fall in love, but there is a spark of something there. As the book unravels, the soldier ends up running again and the girl never sees him again. He gave her a gold ring before he left, and when her father sees it, him and the local sheriff freak out. During her struggle to keep it all a secret, the shereiff reveals that he knew all about it, but told her the soldier was shot dead in another state. The book ends with her going into depression and contemplating visiting the soldier's mother that lives in France, the only family he said he had left. There is a sequel called Morning is a Long Time Coming where she does go to France and fall in love with a French guy there, and then it doesn't work out. Go figure. The book bombed.
I don't know why I liked this book so much, or why I even remembered to through all this time. I read this book in high school, so I think the idea of hopeless love made me swoon. I was also obsessed with any books about WWII and read a lot of them. My older self really admired the idea of these two coming together, despite the fact of a war going on and that they are from two different countries. It kind of gives you a twisted look at the panic-stricken people here in America and how they can go nuts during war propoganda.
It's a good read, but may seem kind of elementary at this age.
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