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I can't believe it I'd never heard of this until my friend Susannah recommended it, but I was sort of busy with grad school when it came out, I guess. I don't even know what else to say about it except that I loved it from cover to cover - it was clever, funny, interesting, surprising, heartbreaking, charming, and beautifully written.
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This book! I can't remember the last time a book shattered me and glued me back together again ... over and over.
The funny thing is that I initially bristled against the style and the narrator. It seemed too hokey and contrived. After part one, I was convinced I would hate this book. I only plugged along because it's the next selection for my book club.
Then the language seduced me. The characters became friends. The plot unraveled skillfully, beautifully, and in the most unique way.
Last night ...more
The funny thing is that I initially bristled against the style and the narrator. It seemed too hokey and contrived. After part one, I was convinced I would hate this book. I only plugged along because it's the next selection for my book club.
Then the language seduced me. The characters became friends. The plot unraveled skillfully, beautifully, and in the most unique way.
Last night ...more
I feel like I have been reading this book FOREVER.
Okay, done. Well written to be sure, but it ultimately left me kind of cold. Great characters, but I didn't feel that connected to any of them. ...more
Okay, done. Well written to be sure, but it ultimately left me kind of cold. Great characters, but I didn't feel that connected to any of them. ...more
Mar 19, 2010
Denise Cormaney
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it was amazing
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Fantastic book! I can't remember the last time a book made me cry...sob, actually. I know that doesn't sound like a good read, but it really is.
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This book is going to go into the list of my top 5 favorite books.
This book was very different from anything I have read. It took me forever to get through and after a while I wanted to stop as the narrator himself told you what was going to happen. But the characters were really compelling, which was what kept me reading.
I did not start out liking this book, but I did think using Death as the narrator worked out very well. It gave me a new perspective on WWII and made me cry towards the end. and I do not usually cry while reading books.
I'm tired, but I have two things to say.
1. I cried at the end.
2. I haven't read a book with so much figurative language in a long time. I swear you can flip it open to any page and find some metaphor or personified object.
Okay, so maybe I have a little bit more to say.
3. I loved Rudy, too.
4. I can't decide if the narrator choice was necessary, but I thought it was an interesting and compelling twist. ...more
1. I cried at the end.
2. I haven't read a book with so much figurative language in a long time. I swear you can flip it open to any page and find some metaphor or personified object.
Okay, so maybe I have a little bit more to say.
3. I loved Rudy, too.
4. I can't decide if the narrator choice was necessary, but I thought it was an interesting and compelling twist. ...more
I think Katie would like this book. the style reminded me of Nicole Krauss. maybe the topic a bit, too. this is the story of a young girl who moves in with foster parents in a suburb of munich during WWII. death is narrator. which allowed the author so much freedom in telling the story- death sees so much and can go anywhere. and there were many beautiful passages.
What a wonderful book. I fell in love with many of the characters and I even enjoyed the narrator. A different perspective on World War II. This story had me captivated and I was sad when it was over.
