War and Turpentine

Belgium Book around the World.

This one was rough. My book around the world challenge is rough. Writing about war and super traumatic things is hard. It's hard because even no one wants to relive that and feel connected to it as they relive it to write it on the page. Even this guys grandpa who wrote a diary just kinda of wrote facts throughout the years. It's not like he seemed to pour his heart out into the diary.

With that being said, I have a very hard time connecting with these types of stories. They're sad, yes. They make me think about big things like what we do to other humans/ourselves, yes. But as far as novel quality? It's just not good.

Overall, I'm missing the emotional connection and there is just a lot of telling without feeling close to the characters.