A List to “rehabilitate” Bishop Richard Williamson

Rehabilitate:
1. To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education.
2. To restore to good condition, operation, or capacity.
3. To reinstate the good name of.
4. To restore the former rank, privileges, or rights of.

The above is from thefreedictionary.com. I’ve no idea what rehabilitation the bishop has experienced, if any, but if I were the pope, I would lock him in a spartan room high in a tower, with no means of escape, and make him read the books listed below. "Resistance is futile," I would ordinarily assume, but I don’t know the bishop.

1. Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
Watch for it in March. I’m reading a galley (being in the biz) – it’s incredible.
“The greatest book ever written about German Resistance to the Nazis.” – Primo Levi

2. If This Is a Man/The Truce
3. The Drowned and the Saved
both by Primo Levi
It was hard to pick just two.
The Drowned was his last book. Levi died when he jumped head first over the railing at his apartment building -- to deny Hitler's ghost his push.

4. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
I confess I've seen the movie but haven’t read the book. The book is always better, though, so I look forward to it.

5. The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Why YA? Why?

6. The Journey
Ida Fink
How can something be 'beautiful' and 'crippling' at the same time?

7. Maus I
Art Speilgelman
The Jews are mice; the Nazis are cats.

8. The Righteous: The Unsung Heros of the Holocaust
Martin Gilbert
Thank God!

9. The Zoo-Keeper’s Wife
Diane Ackerman
An amazing writer.

10. Daniel’s Story
Carol Matas
This was my daughter's big eye-opener in Grade 6.