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This is a thick and awesome book - about 550 pages, and it took me months to read it. I'm slow like that sometimes. Slow to get started on this 12-year-old best-seller . . . and then for a long time I would read it only at bedtime. Unfortunately, I was so tired by the time I got in bed, I could only read one chapter each night. The chapters are very short - this is a YA novel - and they were perfect for my limited attention span after getting in bed at midnight being already nearly asleep. Well,
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What a uniquely-written book! The narrator is Death, and at first I didn't think I would like a book with a narrator like that. However, I became absorbed in Liesel's story, a girl who is living in a small German town during the Holocaust, as she has to deal with daily life in war-time, as well as the vicissitudes that are thrown in her path because of the choies she and her foster parents make. It is a very good book.
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it's dark. simple words, but with heavy meaning. it's just could be a little bit shorter, the end is too dragged.
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On one hand, it was a sweet story. On the other hand, I found it very trite. I read it for a book club and I'm looking forward to the discussion to hear what others thought.
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Beautiful sad little book. Great perspective and I'm glad it's from a German wwII perspective. Bit of a cop-out ending.
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Very original book, rich characters
Jul 31, 2009
Misty
marked it as to-read
Feb 23, 2011
Meghan
marked it as to-read
