The Book Thief

A book you finish and want to share with everyone you know. Amazing use of language and style to capture the idea of words being “live” things that can help as well as harm. If you are a book lover, you'll love the way reading, books and writing become almost human in this story. At first, I struggled to get used to the idea of “Death” being the narrator, and the time-shifting in the story, but soon it became simply the “way” this story had to be told. And it works beautifully—I imagine there are thousands of quotes and “likes” from this book circulating in the Goodreads community. It is definitely well worth reading by anyone, not just “young adults”. I also think it would make a good companion read to a nonfiction account of the Holocaust, like [bc:The Diary of a Young Girl 48855 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358276407s/48855.jpg 3532896]by [ai:Anne Frank 3720 Anne Frank http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1343271406p2/3720.jpg][a:Anne Frank 3720 Anne Frank http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1343271406p2/3720.jpg].