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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

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Jun 13, 2022 Ketutar Jensen rated it really liked it

Absolutely lovely, though very heavy and hard to read...
I wasn't quite happy with the end, but I suppose that's war. I would have wanted to see the black market pig getting what he deserved, and I didn't. :-(
I also found the rape scene... unnecessary. It didn't add anything to the story. ...more

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Dec 02, 2014 Robyn rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, audience-adult, beach-reads

Werner is a young German longing to escape the poor mining town where he lives and where his father died. Marie-Laure is a blind Parisian who spends her days studying the miniature city built by her father so that she can learn to navigate her city by touch. When WWII breaks out, both children find their lives turned upside down and find themselves in situations they could never have imagined.

Beautifully written and enthralling, All the Light We Cannot See transports readers to a time history s ...more

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Dec 30, 2014 Stacey rated it it was amazing

I loved this book, right from the beginning. I fell in love with Marie-Laure and her father, with Werner and Jutta. There were nice details along the way (The braille books, counting the storm drains, the radios, the carvings and birthday puzzles). I read this slowly because I didn't want to leave the story, and you can only read something for the first time, once. I enjoyed the Sea of Flames story and liked how it kept threading its' way through the book. The perspective and characters in here ...more

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