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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 31, 2015

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

Why we're reading this: Young Adult Group Read - January 2015
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Dec 29, 2014 Polly Clarke rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, historical-fiction, bookcase-reads

The best read I've had in a long time. Fresh from finishing this amazing book, I'm in awe of Zusak's ability to create such an impact. Narrated by death, a story of Liesel's life and the people she meets in Germany during World War 2, you can feel death hovering and the raw emotion for the characters become held in the pit of your stomach. Zusak is intense but beautifully and tragically so. I love that the ordinary and the extra-ordinary sit next to each other, the beautiful and the ugly, the ho ...more

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