Well this book was absolutely heartwrenching...but so good. I wasn't sure in the beginning as I haven't read literary fiction in a while and I like to avoid depressing books, but I got sucked in and couldn't put it down. I really like Zusak's writing - he did a LOT of foreshadowing but it worked f...
Date Started: December 27, 2013 | Date Finished: December 31, 2013 First lines: First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. -------- My friend, how do books make you cry? Is it the empathy you feel towards the characters? Is it a certain subject...
The Book Thief, in a possible oversimplification, amounts to Holocaust fiction narrated by Death. We follow him as he, in between doing his job, watches the activities of a young book-lover (little wonder now why it's so well-loved) called Liesel Meminger and her foster family whose home shelters a ...
Wow. I don't even know what to think or how to rate this yet. I can see why this book is so well liked (O HAI EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION~) but to be honest, it did nothing for me. Half the time I was bored out of my skull and forcing myself to finish it so I could move on to something else. Some of th...
This was a fairly fast read and I liked death as the narrator. It's not the most original Holocaust book, but it is touching and interesting. I think it explores a lot of subjects that can help guide discussions of the Holocaust and WWII with young adults.
I have hated the words andI have loved them,and I hope I have made them right.I have had this book for YEARS but never really had the mood to read it. So when two of my friends planning to read it this year, I was jumping on the idea of buddy read. It was probably one of the things that helped me to...
How do you plan on meeting Death? With a fire burning in your eyes? Meekly, like a lost child? Do you plan to give him a punch in the eye?Markus Zusak takes us on a journey with an unlikely story teller - Death. Not your skeletal faced, scythe-wielding Death either, in fact, in his own words:“A SMAL...
In the year or two after this novel was first published, I changed my mind about whether I wanted to read it about a dozen times. The book was right there on the shelf in my local bookstore, with a big green "Staff Pick" sticker on the front. I'd pick it up, walk around the store with it for a while...
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