Review to Come: The Book Thief

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


There were so many different emotions going through me reading this book and it's hard to pinpoint what emotions happened when. Amazingly, for a while I thought I was unable to "feel" the right feelings at the right moments; this book is based in a very depressing, tragic time in history, and as well written as it was, there were a lot of moments where I felt detached from the book and its characters, but at the same time knowing the extent of the grief, tension, and darkness presented. And then there were moments where I DID feel the sadness.

It's hard to put into words at all how I personally felt about The Book Thief, so I'm going to try my best to go back through my notes and put my thoughts together. In the end, it might just be that I'll have some very simple opinions formulated.

On the aside, when my BFF finishes this book, we still need to have our Mini Book Club discussion. So I'll include some points from that discussion into my review as well.

Simply put, I really just really enjoyed reading The Book Thief. It was quite the pleasure.

Review to come. Soon, hopefully.



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Books, reviews and me...

This is a simple post.  I've created a new blog over at Booklikes to keep track of my book reviews and such.  And, to be honest, while I'm OCD about certain types of structure, I think I'm also too lazy to do too much work.  It used to be, I would try to keep tabs on book reviews I write at Goodreads automatically posting on this blog.  Now, I've got too many social networks and blog pages to keep tabs on and I'm (as repeated) a very lazy person.

So all my book reviews will now be posted at Book Abyss, my BookLikes page.  The link is also on my sidebar beneath the rest of my list of personal web pages.  I've also linked up my bookshelf from BookLikes under the Books page at the top of this blog.

I'm still going to try to update the Books page at the top of this blog, but all reviews listed from now on will link to the BookLikes pages rather than my own here at Blogger.

If a book review DOES find a way to sneak onto this blog somehow, I'm not going to fix it (cause that's how I am).  Otherwise, I'm just probably going to post a few updates every month about the books I've been reading and then redirect everyone with linkies to the proper page of each book review or progress report.

That is all.