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Mel’s 2025 Year in Books
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Mel Laytner
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Born
in New York City, The United States
October 10
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Influences
Member Since
July 2016
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What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets
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What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets:
"The author's father was a Holocaust survivor. After his father's death, he learned that what his father had shared wasn't the full story. This prompted him to undertake extensive research. The book is well written and flows smoothly. The book clearly"
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Alex Belida has crafted roller coaster of a (model) train ride. This page turner of a who-dun-it is set in the world of model railroad hobbyists. Fast-paced and breezily written, every time it appears the case has been solved, the bad guys caught, the ...more |
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What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets:
"This book is meticulously researched and incredibly well-written. It is not easy to read due to the content, but easy to read due to fantastic writing. I find it difficult to describe how the book left me feeling after finishing reading...It reads li"
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| Jewish Book Club: 2023/7 Discussion of Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance--POLL WINNER | 15 | 31 | Aug 16, 2023 12:38PM | |
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| Jewish Book Club: Israel at war -- the days after... | 292 | 292 | Jan 11, 2026 07:36PM | |
| Jewish Book Club: Authors Announcing Their Work | 759 | 388 | Jan 18, 2026 10:38PM | |
| Jewish Book Club: Holocaust literature and the Jewish Book Club | 355 | 211 | Feb 05, 2026 05:14AM |
“There are three kinds of writers of news in our generation. In inverse order of worldly consideration, they are:
1. The reporter, who writes what he sees.
2. The interpretive reporter, who writes what he sees and what he construes to be its meaning.
3. The expert, who writes what he construes to be the meaning of what he hasn’t seen.
... All is manifest to [the expert], since his conclusions are not limited by his powers of observation. Logistics, to borrow a word from the military species of the genus, favor him, since it is possible to not see many things at the same time. For example, a correspondent cannot cover a front and the Pentagon simultaneously. An expert can, and from an office in New York, at that.”
― The Press
1. The reporter, who writes what he sees.
2. The interpretive reporter, who writes what he sees and what he construes to be its meaning.
3. The expert, who writes what he construes to be the meaning of what he hasn’t seen.
... All is manifest to [the expert], since his conclusions are not limited by his powers of observation. Logistics, to borrow a word from the military species of the genus, favor him, since it is possible to not see many things at the same time. For example, a correspondent cannot cover a front and the Pentagon simultaneously. An expert can, and from an office in New York, at that.”
― The Press
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― The Story of a New Name
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“Lies are better than tranquilizers.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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