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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Start date: December 1, 2010

Finish date: December 31, 2010

Why we're reading this: We voted and this one won the poll for the Historical fiction category.
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May 12, 2010 Lindsay rated it did not like it

Shelves: read-in-2016, ya, library-read, reread, 3stars, 1star, read-in-2010

First read May12/10 to May14/10
3 stars

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Apr 20, 2009 Cheryl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, favorites

This goes on the list of one of the best books I have ever read. I loved it. It was so refreshing to have another WWII Nazi Germany story but told from a totally different perspective. A shocker for me was that the book was so poetic, but I loved it because of this! The characters were endearing and so real. It portrays the people of Germany as so much more three dimensional and not as they are so often in WWII stories. I think that that is what I appreciated most about the book. I do not think ...more

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May 18, 2016 Dina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own

Wonderful and really sad. Very moved by this book and will be reading other books by Markus Zusak.

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Jan 11, 2011 Trisha rated it really liked it

Shelves: drama, ya

What a great novel! The narrator was certainly....unique, and it gave the novel a very interesting point of view. What I did not like were the constant interruptions with little bold-printed blurbs giving small lists, word definitions, or what not. They really took away from the flow of the story and, in my opinion, were completely unnecessary. Zusak did an amazing job bringing his characters to life and giving them each such endearing qualities that I couldn't help but fall in love them. You mi ...more

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