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This is the book I chose for the 2016 popsugar challenge.
5 stars
Very good book. Quite weird though. Thinking about watching the movie.
5 stars
Very good book. Quite weird though. Thinking about watching the movie.
For quite a way into this story, I felt a - je ne sais quois, something dark and sinister - unsettling, even - and it left me feeling uneasy. But it all wrapped up so well in the end. Liesel steals her first book at the funeral of her brother, it has fallen out of the pocket of the young gravedigging apprentice and is known as The Gravedigger's handbook. In this tale narrated by Death, who is really quite a likeable character, Liesel settles into her new home with a new Mama and Papa, and a chee
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Do you occasionally, when you have completed a good book, have that almost be refit feeling of grief because you have read it and you wanted it to go on and on forever? I get that feeling when I read books that move me but I can honestly say that in all my years of being a prolific reader no book has sucked me into it's pages and absorbed me in its world quite like this one.
I don't even know why. It's a war story but told from a totally different perspective than we are used to. Death is the nar ...more
I don't even know why. It's a war story but told from a totally different perspective than we are used to. Death is the nar ...more
Oct 04, 2012
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May 14, 2013
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Krista
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Jan 14, 2014
Tracey
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it was amazing
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