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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 31, 2015

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Sep 18, 2014 Becky rated it it was amazing

This was one of those books that will stick with me long after I have finished. It is the story of Marie-Laure, a young girl that goes blind at age 6. She lives with her father in France until they must relocate during the war. He is all she has until he mysteriously leaves and is taken captive in the war. This leaves Marie with her uncle, who is a recluse.

The story is also about Werner, a young orphan boy who tinkers with radios. When the Germans find out how great he is with radios, he is tak ...more

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Nov 11, 2014 Kerry Christian rated it liked it

Shelves: 2015-challenge, pop-sugar-challenge-2015

It is no surprise that this book won the Pulitzer for 2015. It is both devastating and beautiful, heart-wrenching and inspirational. All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of a blind French girl, Marie-Laure, and a German orphan boy, Werner, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. The story is told in alternating voice, from the perspective of both Marie-Laure and Werner. Marie-Laure, forced to flee Paris with her father, must rely on h ...more

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Feb 08, 2015 Meg rated it it was amazing

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Apr 20, 2015 Amanda rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, war

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Jul 21, 2014 Seth Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, audiobook, war

Beautiful at times, scary at others, this is a good novel that only touches greatness a few times. The book is permeated with a sense of loss for things once beautiful and now gone. I was particularly struck with the suffering of the German people when the war started to turn against them and they realized how their leaders had mislead them.

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