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Good concept. Told by death. Historical story. Sad at times but just okay read to me. I've heard so much good things about this story. Thought it'll be more. But yeah again just okay. Liesel is a book thief. Small child going through so much doing 1939 with Nazis Germany. with so much death happening around Liesel she's just being a little girl. Wanting to learn to read and write while playing with her friend Rudy. Her Papa and Mama were something else. I enjoyed this story but it's nothing I se
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I know I don't possess the proper words but I'll try. This book was beautiful and horrific. It made me laugh out loud and sob even louder. It made me despair at humans and rejoice in humanity. It was simply a masterpiece and I am better having read it.
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The book is about a young girl, Liesl (like in The Sound of Music!) who is an 'orphan' of the war. Her mother no longer being able to care for the two children, Liesl and her brother, places them into the foster care system of Nazi Germany. On the train trip to the fostering agency, Liesl's little brother dies. He's buried quickly and as the grave diggers walk away from the site, Liesl sees the book, and she takes it as a reminder of this time in her life. So it begins.
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One word (hyphenated): WORD-GASM.
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