Sugar Beach comment

I'm about 1/3  into this book (so no spoilers or anything here) and this observation keeps coming up so I wanted to post it now prior to our discussion. Hope this is ok! 

So this is pretty minor, but is anyone else having a tough time reconciling that Helene and her family are the wealthy, upper class, almost royalty in their country DUE TO THE WAY THEY TALK? Is it because we Americans are so conditioned to associating wealth and privilege with a proper use of the English language? 

This is not meant to be critical of the family in any way. It's just hard to wrap my head around this! In fact, I think this makes it fascinating because it pushes me beyond what I know. Happy reading!

Reading list

I posted a little list on the side - and I chose (hope no one minds) to list a book for March because I am DYING to discuss this book with women I know a bit better than random people on the internet. So, for March, I chose A Woman in Berlin - here's the blurb:

For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. Spare, unpredictable, minutely observed, and utterly free of self-pity (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity as well as their cravenness. And with bald honesty and brutal lyricism (Elle), she tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject. A Woman in Berlin is, to quote A. S. Byatt, essential, and a classic of war literature.

This is really a powerful book and deserves a good discussion. I would really appreciate some feedback on it! I promise to not dominate it either!