Book #8 "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak: "He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain" (page 80).
I'm going to be really honest. My thoughts on this one are kind of everywhere and nowhere at the same time (if that makes any sense at all). So bare with me as I try to get my thoughts together for this.
The book takes place in Nazi Germany, so it kinda goes without saying that there was a ton crammed into it. Originally when I first heard about this book I guess I pictured it was just gonna be about a girl running around and saving books from horrible fates the entire time. Let me get everything out in the open right now by saying that that is so not the case. AT ALL!
In the 4 year period that this book covers the seemingly 'main character', Liesel Meminger, only steals something like 8 or 10 books. The book wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be. I could go into a bunch of detail but in most cases doing so would end up ruining the book, which I would never dream of doing considering how highly I recommend you spend the time to read it. So in order to not ruin it I will only talk about two different things that I found unique about this particular book. Here we go:
#1: The book instead of just being told from the view point of the main character it goes back and forth from the story being told from the view point of the main character and also from the view of Death. Yes, you read that right, it says Death. The story was told as if Death was there and then giving us a very detailed play-by-play of what went down. Really was strange in a cool way. I could go on more about that but sadly I can't or at least not without ruining some other things for you.
#2: As stated about the book takes place in Nazi Germany, and generally when we read almost anything about Nazi Germany the Nazis are portrayed as more of the 'bad guys'. However, and don't get me wrong there are plenty of 'bad Nazies' in this book, the main cast of characters consist of Nazis and it's more then fair to say that they would, by almost anyone's standards, not be considered 'bad guys' but heroes instead.
If nothing else then this book did give some amazing insight to how not all the members of the Nazi Party where necessarily on board with or agreed with what was happening as far as the war and the Jews. Even if they didn't know all the tragic things that we know about the camps and such today they still had the good sense to know something wasn't right and to do something about it.
I could probably go on more but I will spare you my rambling. On to book #9 (woo we are almost through the books of Feb., just a bit behind). Book #9 is "Parable of the Sower" by Ovtavia E. Butler. I know nothing about this book but it was recommended and lent to me by my friend Brett. So, in short, if it sucks we can just blame it on him. ;)
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
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