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Completed	27 May 2009
Title	Night
Author	Elie Wiesel
Published	1958
Quote	"My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin."
Review	Wasn't it just last week or so that I was complaining about Steinbeck, how depressing he is? How I couldn't take any more of his books? How even though I love his writing style, Steinbeck just brings me down, down, down, and who needs that? Which leads me to ponder why it is that I even picked up this book, Night. It's the true story of the author's experience during the Holocaust, and it's not unlike any other Holocaust memoir I've run across in the past. It's sad, to be true, a story that needs to be told, for sure. But I just don't need to be reading books like this right now. I need books to lift me up, not bring me down. If you have any suggestions for happy, uplifting books to read, do tell!

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