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Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm
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Jan 06, 2009 08:06AM

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I would like to thank whoever nominated this book and all those that voted for it. I may not have read it if it weren't a group read. It is a wonderful book. I didn't know anything about it but the title before I started. The setting surprised me, but made sense once I got into the book. Great read guys!
I agree. It actually didn't seem to be a YA novel. More main stream or adult than most I have read.

Can't you put it into the "Suggestions by the Staff" section. That way they won't know, until after they read it! :) Sneaky!
if i wouldn't have already known it was a YA book..i would have just thought it was just a mainstream adult book. it's soo good so far!



for anyone who didn't get into it right away..PLEASE keep reading! i must admit..it took me like 50 pages to really start liking the book..but it was well worth it..



i'm the same way..i have always been so interested in this time period as well. I think that Liesel hit a big point..it was about the words...I am fascinated with how soo many people would listen to the words coming out of this man's mouth and how we think something like this is just RIDICULOUS to exterminate a people group like this..but these people hung on to every word he said. he was an incredible incredible public speakers..and a motivator. I'm just really fascinated (i'm with you kelsey..i feel like its the wrong word lol) with Hitler..i just cannot even comprehend how he pulled off something like that..and i really like hearing about it from different perspectives.


That is exactly what happened to me!! I stayed up until like 3 or 4 in the morning and just bawled my eyes out. I went through half a box of tissues!



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