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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

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. Week 4: Published This Year

* Week 4: Introduction
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Dec 31, 2016 Michael Faris rated it it was amazing

Along with A Brief History of 7 Killings, the best two books i've read all year. ...more

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Jun 17, 2022 Lucinda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Beautifully written. I didn't mind the short chapters, jumping back and forth between the main characters and timeframes.
It didn't end how I expected, and there is a death that is shocking in its brevity, but I guess life is like that. ...more

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May 31, 2015 Tanya rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2015, challenge-2015-popsugar

Quotes I liked:

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.” (84)

"I don't want to make trouble, Madame."
"Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?"
"Doing nothing is doing nothing."
"Doing nothing is as good as collaborating."
The wind gust ...more

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Feb 05, 2015 Guy rated it it was amazing

This is easily the best book I've read in quite a while. I've been sort of in the doldrums for some time and I needed something to really grab me. Been starting books and quickly losing interest. Or reading 200 pages of a book and then wondering what it was even about and why was I reading it? This one had me from the first word. Set before and during World War II. Told from various viewpoints but focusing mainly on a blind French girl and a brilliant young German orphan boy. And set mostly in t ...more

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Mar 08, 2017 Jesse rated it really liked it

Shelves: around-the-year-2017, 2017-popsugar-challenge

Terrific World War II novel which follows several people involved in different aspects of the conflict, and the unlikely ways in which their lives intersect. a little slow in some parts but the main characters are quite compelling and keep you wanting more.

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