All the Light We Cannot See

I shouldn't like this. Historical fiction set in World War 2 with the obliquely titled “All the Light We Cannot See” featuring a blind French girl?! With George Clooney's Monuments Men, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken and Brad Pitt's Fury it's only a matter of time before Sandra Bullock snatches this up for her own bit of WWII movie relevance.

Marie-Laure LeBlanc is the blind daughter of master locksmith for the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Werner Pfennig and his sister are orphans in the coal mining town of Zollverein. He's destined for the mines as soon as he turns 15 until his skill at repairing radios gets him a ticket out via a Hitler Youth academy.

Reviewers have found his language overly decorated - “no noun sits upon the page without the decoration of at least one adjective, and sometimes, alas with two or three“ while others complain about the zig zagging timeline that shuttles back and forth over the years and flips between narrators. Screw them. This is one of those books you tell people to just read. It was one of those books I finished and didn't know what to read next, assured that anything else would just be words on a page. Individual results may vary.