Things We Didn't Say (Hardcover)

from debs4jc

This was a fun read. It's told through letters - mainly those of a language student who is forced into taking a job as a translator and censor at an internment camp during WWII. Johanna loves languages, and has already learned several. It is her fluency in German that leads to her reluctantly wor...

from norastlaurent

This is a fascinating, explosive, well researched, epistolary novel that reads like a documentary. This author masterfully tells this story through letters, handwritten notes, newspaper articles, telegrams, documents and testimony from events that happened in the German POW camps. The author stat...

from eccl

Things we Didn't Say is Amy Lynn Green's debut WWII novel set in the fictional town of Ironside Lake , Minnesota in 1944. Johanna is attending the University of Minnesota (U of M) on a full scholarship and has big plans for her future. While at the U of M, she meets Peter, a language instructor f...

from claudia.castenir

When the first few chapters of Things We Didn't Say consisted of letters and newspaper clippings, I flipped through the book and discovered that the entire book was structured that way. Initially I felt that would cause the book to drag on, but I could not have been more wrong. I was totally suck...

from alekee

I loved this book, the entire book is built on letters, becoming a lost art, and we get an indebth look at the life of Johanna Berglund. Johanna is a brilliant woman, and is fluent in languages, so she is persuaded to come home to her own town in MN and translate for the new internment facility b...