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I got the book today from my local library and while updating my iPad started to read it.The first part - actually numbered zero :-) was pretty interesting and I think I can imagine where the story will go but still I'm interested how they get there so it's really a good start.
I hope to finish The Handmaids Tale this week so I can concentrate on this book.
You are in for a treat. I loved this book.
I just picked up a copy the other day. I have found myself having a new genre to love in historical fiction. Who'd have thunk? lol This one gets high marks and I am looking forward to it. I've been in a reading slump the past few weeks but just started a new one to try and get over it and boom, it's great so far! Sometimes you just need to pick up a different book, I suppose. The other one was just so slow getting going. Has anyone read All the Pretty Girls? I had wanted to read it for awhile. I'm kind of sad to be slightly disappointed with it. It came recommended for sure!
I might try to make a start tomorrow evening :-)
I just loved the back and forth, forward and backward intertwining. Beautiful writing. Will stay tuned for the ending which had me ?
This was one of the first historical fiction books I had read. I didn't know I loved this genre too!@Amy - I have had All The Pretty Girls on my list for a while. Bummer that it is slow for you! I will be interested in how it finishes out.
Don't worry, I've been in a slump for a while now! I love historical fiction, specifically WW2 so I am looking forward to this one. The only books I have really been excited about lately are the Rizzoli & Isles series, so maybe you can try those next ;)
OK I see I'm one of the few here not so much in love of historical fiction. Before my last biiiiiiig reading slump it was my favorite genre but I fear I've just overdone it and need a pause from those. Still the book is so far very interesting. I don't even mind all the shifts in time or character parts.From the bits of the story my guess is (view spoiler)
Ok I have started this one now but have not got that far yet, I am enjoying it though :-)
I'm going to try and start tomorrow or Sunday night. I know I'm a week late to the party but it's just been a busy week. Hope everyone is enjoying it.
No worries ladies, looks like we all are not that far :-)
Agnieszka wrote: "Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a G..."
Fantastic book. Every page.
Good to see I am not miles behind everyone then :-)
just popped in to say I read this earlier in the year and loved itit's now one of my fave all-time books
So I'm bummed to hell. I packed to go to BC for ten days, and specifically put my book on my dresser so I would not forget it. Annnnnd I forgot it! I seriously packed everything but the kitchen sink. How did I forget my most important item? :-(((If I can find another inexpensive copy here I will buy it again.
Amy wrote: "So I'm bummed to hell. I packed to go to BC for ten days, and specifically put my book on my dresser so I would not forget it. Annnnnd I forgot it! I seriously packed everything but the kitchen sin..."I know that feeling :-)
Do you have access to an online library? That's were I discovered my copy first but got it from my local library (can keep it twice as long and renew if I'm still not finished)
Amy wrote: "So I'm bummed to hell. I packed to go to BC for ten days, and specifically put my book on my dresser so I would not forget it. Annnnnd I forgot it! I seriously packed everything but the kitchen sin..."Where are you going in BC? I bet you can find it in a lot of used book stores and popular as it is. Hope this is a pleasure trip!
I've finished one of my current reads so should be able to devote more time to this one. I am currently around 150 odd pages in now.
I'm back to this book.It's so strange it takes each time so much time and energy to start reading our book but as soon as I start I don't want to stopp.
I love the story telling within the single parts but struggle with the time line - the constant going forth and back though I'm aware it's only because I don't feel well for so long now and my concentration is at its lowest level since I can think.
I remember I had trouble with the time line as well.
I have been dipping into this one and am about half way through, i am enjoying it and hope to get another chunk of it read today
For sure, it's not a book you can skim!
I am waiting for this now....... "paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II"..... and feel it is imminent now that I am 61% through. How far are you all?
I think I was only at 20-25% when I left home. I should have just bought it again on Kindle.
Finished this today - it's taken a while and I really enjoyed it - it was long though but beautifully written.
I'm about 40% into the book and I enjoy it - in small doses :-)Mandy I agree it's beautiful written - that's the only reason I'm still reading it!
I have finally finished the book and loved it very much. It was not an easy book to read and I had to set it several time aside but when I was reading it I enjoyed it very much.The end was different than I thought but made sense and I think it's making much more sense that way :-)
Amy I hope you'll be able to finish it as well, now that you're back home - it's really worth it!
Agnieszka wrote: "I have finally finished the book and loved it very much. It was not an easy book to read and I had to set it several time aside but when I was reading it I enjoyed it very much.The end was differe..."
Glad you enjoyed it too - no, it was not an easy book to read at times but worth it :-)
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.