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Mel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mel Laytner
Goodreads Author
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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This is a well written history of a remarkable man, during a remarkable, turbulent period. King presents Michelangelo as both a troubled human with family, health and money woes, and as the revolutionary artist he was. The book not read like a conver ...more |
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What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets:
"‘What They Didn’t Burn’
Was well written and well researched. Thank you for teaching a whole new generation about the horrors inflicted by Nazi Germany." |
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What We Can Know
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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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 | |
| 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
“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Cries for help are frequently inaudible.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon.”
― The Secret Place
― The Secret Place
“Lies are better than tranquilizers.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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