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Let's Buddy! - Historical > The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel -> Restarting April 9th, 2023

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Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.

The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?

As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.


Trisha | 6786 comments Through Ch 8

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Trisha | 6786 comments Through Ch 16

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Vicki (goodreadscomboobooper49) | 5340 comments Ch 8

I love this so far! (view spoiler)

DYING to read your posts! Hope you’re liking it too!


Trisha | 6786 comments I'm really liking it too!!


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Trisha | 6786 comments through Ch 24

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Trisha | 6786 comments and I'm done

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Vicki (goodreadscomboobooper49) | 5340 comments Trisha wrote: "Through Ch 16

her mother is just awful. what does she do all day? Just sit around and blame her daughter for things. she isn't earning them money - all she does is eat and get mad her daughter i..."


Chapter 16

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I'm wondering what happened that you ended up rating it only 3 stars. I'm still loving it!


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Vicki (goodreadscomboobooper49) | 5340 comments Chapter 24

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Vicki (goodreadscomboobooper49) | 5340 comments Trisha wrote: "through Ch 24

awe, I love that he left her a message. I hope he's okay

interesting that Gerard is dating Genevieve. he seems slimy - I hope he ends up being a good guy but I'm not feeling it

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Her mother is definitely (view spoiler)


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Vicki (goodreadscomboobooper49) | 5340 comments Finished and I loved it! (view spoiler)


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Ashley Basile (smashreads) | 1107 comments Excited to start this one tonight!


Ashley Basile (smashreads) | 1107 comments So far I've read through Chapter 4 (view spoiler)


Ashley Basile (smashreads) | 1107 comments Read through Chapter 13 (view spoiler)


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Ashlyn | 5987 comments Just started this one


Ashley Basile (smashreads) | 1107 comments Read through Chapter 19 (view spoiler)


message 18: by Shia (new) - rated it 3 stars

Shia (808bookdr) | 321 comments hi guys! found this (bc I suck and still learning GR lol)... I'm in the middle of chapter 7 so far and remembered why HisFic makes me emotional :(


Ashley Basile (smashreads) | 1107 comments Definitely!

Shia, what do you think of the chapters you've read so far?


message 20: by Shia (new) - rated it 3 stars

Shia (808bookdr) | 321 comments Read through chapter 9 - thoughts:

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Ashley Basile (smashreads) | 1107 comments Finished! (view spoiler)


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Kade Gulluscio (kadebraylen) | 3757 comments Reading now whike I get my nails done. 😂


message 23: by Kade (new) - rated it 5 stars

Kade Gulluscio (kadebraylen) | 3757 comments Part one up to chapter 5.

This is so much better than I expected already.
Oh and I’ll probably do more than the four posts since it’s a longer book; and I’ll forget what I wanted to say. 😂

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Kade Gulluscio (kadebraylen) | 3757 comments ill be posting my notes for the read shortly and then the review! i ended up putting notes in draft emails whle i was out so i could finish ;x


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Kade Gulluscio (kadebraylen) | 3757 comments part two up to chapter 12
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Kade Gulluscio (kadebraylen) | 3757 comments part three up to chapter 20
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Kade Gulluscio (kadebraylen) | 3757 comments part four - the end

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message 28: by Shia (new) - rated it 3 stars

Shia (808bookdr) | 321 comments part 2 - up to chapter 15

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message 29: by Shia (new) - rated it 3 stars

Shia (808bookdr) | 321 comments part 3 - up to chapter 22

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Shia (808bookdr) | 321 comments part 4 - the end

As always when I read a hisfic, I am reminded of the tragic circumstances that occurred and how lucky I am to have the privileges I have today. Eva's journey is one full of sacrifice and loss and although the ending satisfied me, I wish her journey wasn't so rough. But then again, would I have connected so deeply if it was a lighter plot?? Probably not... I definitely did NOT like the mom or Joseph. I didn't feel any remorse for not liking them either after their deaths lol..


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Ashlyn | 5987 comments Chapter 7 (view spoiler)

Chapter 11 (view spoiler)

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Ashlyn | 5987 comments Chapter 19:
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Ashlyn | 5987 comments Finished (view spoiler)


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