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*January 2019 selection for Wentworth Library's Book Ends book group*
I was surprised by how much I liked this. I both read the special anniversary edition and listened to the audiobook version (read aptly by Allan Corduner). Being narrated by Death, it has a fanciful quality, which is sort of an effective foil for the horrors of life under the totalitarian Nazi regime and of the Holocaust and of war. I'm still wrestling with some aspects of the book, though. The female characters, apart from Li ...more
I was surprised by how much I liked this. I both read the special anniversary edition and listened to the audiobook version (read aptly by Allan Corduner). Being narrated by Death, it has a fanciful quality, which is sort of an effective foil for the horrors of life under the totalitarian Nazi regime and of the Holocaust and of war. I'm still wrestling with some aspects of the book, though. The female characters, apart from Li ...more
I never re-read books, but I know I will revisit this book--I love the characters and message so much. I read and listened to the masterful narration of Allan Corduner.
Conceptually a great YA book, but in actual experience, I didn't find it as compelling as I'd hoped. The book is narrated by Death, who we learn becomes occasionally infatuated with some certain human's story - in this case, that of the Book Thief, young Liesel Meminger, who has moved in with foster parents and is adjusting to life in a city near Munich in the thick of World War II. Death's voice feels gimmicky and stilted, and I think Liesel's story would have been better told without Death's i
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Dec 08, 2016
Andronike
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I just finished rereading this book with the book club I started at school, and for the third time it has me tears. I'm afraid to read other books by Zusak, because I'm afraid that they won't be as powerful.
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Quite possibly the best fiction book I have ever read that was set during World War 2.
I will echo that this is neither an easy read nor a quick one. But quite simply this book has characters that come to life from the page. No one is all good nor all bad.
I highly recommend this book.
I will echo that this is neither an easy read nor a quick one. But quite simply this book has characters that come to life from the page. No one is all good nor all bad.
I highly recommend this book.
It's hard to say why this book is so wonderful. I'd like to be more like Hans Hubermann. And Liesel too. This book made me cry, and cry out, more than once. It's just so beautiful and sad.
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Every review is true. Break out the tissues for the last chapter, and do not read in public.
The book was incredibly descriptive, uniquely written and overall a book in which you wanted to emotionally invest. Everyone should read it!
The book was incredibly descriptive, uniquely written and overall a book in which you wanted to emotionally invest. Everyone should read it!
So very beautiful...
A devastatingly beautiful book.
I got through about 10 pages of this before I put it down. I know people seem to (almost) universally love it, but the style of writing was really jarring and unpleasant for me.
Apr 03, 2015
LT
marked it as to-read
Jul 20, 2015
Erin Black-Mitchell
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Sep 28, 2016
Michelle
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it was amazing
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