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I'm not even sure how to review this book. It's a WWII book of course, so it is filled with all the awfulness of that. Liesel, the main character is a young girl becoming a teenager in Germany during WWII. She experiences a lot of the traumas of the teen years, but then all the added trauma of a war, of being orphaned, of losing her brother, and on and on.
The use of death as a narrator is very interesting, and I have to say I think the first I've read. He's a great narrator, full of feeling and ...more
The use of death as a narrator is very interesting, and I have to say I think the first I've read. He's a great narrator, full of feeling and ...more
I suspect this is the kind of book that people either love or hate, and not much in between. Death tells the story of a girl who steals books in Nazi Germany. Death tells it rather slowly and with so much metaphorical language that it's really irritating and extremely dull. An example: "Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Leisel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain." At the end, I read an interview with the aut
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I have been waiting to read this book for a couple of years, since I was waaay down on the hold list on my digital library--finally got to read it this past week and it was very much worth the wait. Beautifully, uniquely written (narrated by death and follows a young German girl during WWII) and just amazing--loved it.
I decided to read this book after hearing rave reviews. I started reading it and was really put off by the narrator at first. I kept pushing through and fell in love with the characters. The narrator's random interjections actually became fun and in the end, I was so emotionally wrapped up with the characters, I was on the verge of tears when tragedy struck.
I don't want to give too much away, but I definitely recommend everyone read this book. It isn't very often we get to see the German civili ...more
I don't want to give too much away, but I definitely recommend everyone read this book. It isn't very often we get to see the German civili ...more
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