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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

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* Week 4: Introduction
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Apr 15, 2015 Sara rated it really liked it

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Marie-Laurie is blind & living in Paris with her Father (who works at the Museum of Natural History the locksmith) & they must evacuate and go to Saint-Malo to live with father's great-uncle Etienne & his housekeeper Madame Manec. Werner Pfennig is an orphan living in a coal-mining town with his sister, Jutta. He displays an aptitude for radios & is taken from the orphanage run by Frau Elena to a Nazi school to develop his talents.

- Switching back and forth between time periods
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Jan 29, 2015 Sarah Koehler rated it really liked it

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May 31, 2015 Tanya rated it it was amazing

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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."
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