This weeks book of the week is the book thief by Marcus Zusak. Here is the blurb of the book:
It is 1939. Nazi, Germany. Everyone is holding there breath. Death has been busier and will become busier still.
Leisel Meminger and her brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Leisel's father was taken away on the single breath of one word- Kommunist- and Liesel sees the fear of a familiar fate in her mothers eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many encounters. By her brothers graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object partially hidden in the snow. It is ''The Gravediggers Handbook''. It is her first act of book thievery.
So begins a love affair with books and words as Liesel, with the help of her accordion playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book burnings , the mayors wife library,wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel foster family hide a Jewish Fist-Fighter in their basement, Liesel's life is both opened up and closed down.
This book is also now a major film. I give this book 8/10. Idefinitely recommend reading this book. It is interesting from the start to end.
Dear Madaline,
ReplyDeleteI see now that reading a book like 'My Sister's Keeper' is not unusual for you and that once again you have written about a book that is challenging to read.
I see too that reading quality literature like this is having its effects on your own writing. That you read so well means you write well too.
Impressive.
Well done,
Merry Beau