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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Start date: March 1, 2013

Finish date: March 31, 2013

Discussion: Group Read

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Jun 12, 2014 Brooke ♥booklife4life♥ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, read-in-2016, amazon-reviewed

Basic Info

Format: Audio
Pages/Length: n/a
Genre: Young Adult; Historical Fiction
Reason For Reading: On the YA Top 100

At A Glance

Love Triangle/Insta Love/Obsession?: No
Cliff Hanger: eh
Triggers: n/a
Rating: 3.5 stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 7
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7
Ending: 7

Total: 7

In Dept

Best Part: Books!
Worst Part: Dumb MC at times.
Thoughts Had: You really should have been caught!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: Yes

Short ...more

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Sep 09, 2013 Gabrielle rated it liked it

Shelves: reviewed, read-for-school, classics, physical-owned, big-books

I didint like this book but I greatly appreciated it it was an extremely powerful book if I could use one word for it, it would be powerful did I like diesel? She was not amazing but it was more her story that was amazing but I never really connected with the book much less the characters. The hitler world war 2 setting is not my scene or my preference but this book was very deep and there were a lot of quotable parts. It made me look at death in a completely different way, it makes you question ...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Emma rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, one-shots-series-starters, 2013, ya, historical-fiction

Oh dear. What a scary cover.

That's what my friend thought, at least. An I think I'm going to have to agree with her. The letters in the title ARE pretty weird. And small. Why must the title be so small?!

I hate historical fiction, or even anything historical in fact. I find it very bland and by the time I found out this was placed in World War 2, it was too late.

The beginning was a little hard for me to understand at first (and very discouraging). I had to look up the narrator beca ...more

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