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So did this deserve the National Book Award? The Pulitzer? Yeah, ok, I can see why. The prose is beautifully descriptive (Saint-Malo, am I right?), and I liked how the different characters blended together. The jumps in time didn't bother me, as it was blatantly obvious what time frame we were in. Those last 40 pages or so...meh. The book kinda fizzled out for me. But as another reviewer mentioned, sometimes as in life things don't end with a big dramatic, sweeping climax, and this was demonstra
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The fifth star is for the chapters that read like poems. My favorites are the section about the sea "holding everything you could ever feel," and the parts that compare peaches to "wet sunlight." There's more, but it's really the writing that earned the extra star from me.
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Light, order, duty ... Things too hard to quantify. Written in alternating chapters, this is the story of two children in World War II. A radio brings them together for one short day.
My 3rd WWII book in a row so that may effected my giving 4 instead of 5 stars. Beautifully written, wonderful characters and details and I loved the ending. I listened to the book and it ends with Claire de Lune playing
Dec 31, 2014
Kate McCartney
marked it as to-read
Feb 03, 2015
Sophie
marked it as to-read
