The Hiding Place
by Corie Ten Boom
Format: Paperback
Price: $6.49 on Amazon
Price: $6.49 on Amazon
How I heard about it: My mother read it to me as a child and it was my choice for our Book Club
Basic Premise: Corie has lived a simple, happy life with her parents and sisters above the family watchmaking shop. But when the German occupation comes to their town of Harlem in Holland, her entire family becomes involved in an underground network of do-gooders who hide Jews and smuggle them out of danger. That is, until they are caught themselves.
My Take: 10 out of 10 (scale here)
This is one of those books you read and remember forever. My mother read parts of it to us when we were young (it would have been wildly inappropriate to read all of it to a young child) and I had been meaning to reread it as a adult. This was the PERFECT time. There are so many beautiful moments in this book and so many lessons to be learned. If they were learned by a 55-year-old woman who was starving in a flea-infested concentration camp while working 16 hours a day in the very harshest of conditions, surely I can get out of bed and go to work without grumbling, right?
But what I love most about this book is the abiding faith of both Corie and her sister, Betsie. They believed in the power and glory of God even amidst these circumstances, and they knew it was the only thing that would get them and their fellow prisoners through this atrocious experience. I loved discussing it at Book Club. At various points, we had tears in our eyes as we shared what we learned and how we want to change our own lives and hearts.
It was an incredible read and I heartily recommend it to anyone!
This is one of those books you read and remember forever. My mother read parts of it to us when we were young (it would have been wildly inappropriate to read all of it to a young child) and I had been meaning to reread it as a adult. This was the PERFECT time. There are so many beautiful moments in this book and so many lessons to be learned. If they were learned by a 55-year-old woman who was starving in a flea-infested concentration camp while working 16 hours a day in the very harshest of conditions, surely I can get out of bed and go to work without grumbling, right?
But what I love most about this book is the abiding faith of both Corie and her sister, Betsie. They believed in the power and glory of God even amidst these circumstances, and they knew it was the only thing that would get them and their fellow prisoners through this atrocious experience. I loved discussing it at Book Club. At various points, we had tears in our eyes as we shared what we learned and how we want to change our own lives and hearts.
It was an incredible read and I heartily recommend it to anyone!
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