All the Light We Cannot See in Baltimore County Public Library Summer Reading BCPL SRC

Dec 03, 2014 Leanne rated it it was amazing

This is my favorite of book of all time. This tells the parallel stories of a blind girl in France and an orphaned boy in Germany as Hitler's Reich comes to power and reeks havoc on the world. Deeply affecting, the writer deftly weaves the paths of these two individuals with the lives of those around them, until they collide and affect one another lives forever. An absolute must read, this is book that will leave you spellbound. ...more

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Jun 18, 2014 Laura Novobilsky rated it really liked it

I really, really enjoyed this book. I loved how the reader was able to follow the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner and how their paths finally connected. The only reason I didn't give the book 5 stars was that I wasn't crazy about how the time jumped around so much, especially during the years of the war. I think the story would have been just as effective if told chronologically and would have not required so much flipping back to the beginnings of chapters to figure out that we had jumped 6 m ...more

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Nov 08, 2019 A Book Vacation rated it really liked it

Just some thoughts till I can get to a computer.

This novel is hauntingly beautiful. Slow at times, but beautiful just the same. Doerr's prose are elegant and poetic, casting images into the readers mind so succinctly it's as if we're there with the characters, celebrating their triumphs and lamenting their trials.

The female lead character was a wonderfully strong young woman, and I loved how Doerr had her grow into herself as the novel cascaded across the years prior to, during, and even after ...more

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Apr 20, 2016 Jennifer Bowers rated it really liked it

I see that I read this in 2015 but I TOTALLY DON'T REMEMBER IT! Not once in my reading did I have a sense of the familiar. Weird. I need to drink more coconut oil.
I'm upgrading my rating from 3 to 4 stars, but I'm still not ready to give it 5, as so many of my friends and family have done. I felt the story dragged at times. Also, I know it's very popular today to tell stories out of order, but I'm not sure what purpose it served to jump back and forth so much. It went from 1944 to '34 to '44 to ...more

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Oct 30, 2019 JoAnne rated it really liked it

Did not finish the book. I just could not get invested in the characters or story because the chapters kept skipping around. I may give it another try in the future.

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