Tuesday 15th of November 2011
This is a book that you have to struggle through in the beginning. Don't give up it's wonderful. You become immersed in the story of the tough little tomboy Liesle, her adoptive family the Hubermans and the boy next door, Rudy. The fact that the book describes Hitlers effect on the local Germans' family life shines through now and then but you tend to ignore this, because it's to depressing to take in; you just want to be a fly on the Hubermanns wall and see what's coming up next. The story is told from the perspective of "death" , which we felt was the worse aspect of the book - none of us could see the point of Death being the narrator and we felt his monologues tended to be cliched. However, leaving this aside, the Book Thief is a powerful and moving story about first love, and humanity shining through in the most desperate circumstances.
We all liked it and were wondering if it will make it to the big screen like the last two books we read.
The soup complimented the conversation very well Ulrika's delicious lentil soup.
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