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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Start date: March 19, 2015

Finish date: March 31, 2015

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Aug 18, 2017 Gabriela rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This gem of a book is a must read, without exception. I will recommend it to my friends and to my kids when they are old enough to understand the subtleties in the woven stories and the beauty of the writing style.

It was both a slow read and an unputdownable one, characters lingering in the mind through their caring nature and soft inner voices. A novel about war, yes, yet so much more than that. I was sceptical due to its popularity and dived in courageously without reading any reviews beforeh ...more

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Sep 28, 2018 Tien rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, historical-fiction, read-on-kobo

Such beautiful writing! I’m not sure how to describe it but it’s definitely the writing that’s pulled me along through this book. It is just so full of wonder; the beauty of the world, the strength of people, and in contradiction, the ugliness of people. How such juxtaposition exists!? I was reading this together with a colleague and she admitted that she’d have given up very early on if I wasn’t reading with her. It’s a very slow moving book and rather difficult to get into; too many switching ...more

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