To start off with, there are a few new free books out there but nothing that I was interested in, so I didnt share them. They were either the typical romance or books to learn by. I dont want either in my reading habits right now. If it is going to be romance, I want it to be something different or vampirish. Learning.. not in my reading unless it is history, Who knew??? I didnt like history in school but that was memorizing dates and not the personal stories of what was happening during those times.
I am just about done with The Book Thief and it is tough. I want to see how it ends but at the same time I am afraid of how it ends. I have already cried and laughed and learned reading this book. As much as I am loving it and will give it a '5', it is not one that I would recommend to everyone. This book is not one that I would have normally liked myself, but I find it interesting with all the descriptions and the history.
Description:
Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book–although she has not yet learned how to read–and her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers Handbook, to lull her to sleep when shes roused by regular nightmares about her younger brothers death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. Zusak not only creates a mesmerizing and original story but also writes with poetic syntax, causing readers to deliberate over phrases and lines, even as the action impels them forward. Death is not a sentimental storyteller, but he does attend to an array of satisfying details, giving Liesels story all the nuances of chance, folly, and fulfilled expectation that it deserves. An extraordinary narrative.
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