Dear
Hardcovers and Hangovers,
We
enjoyed an awesome evening at Amy’s.
Thank YOU Amy!
The
Book Thief proved to be a somber book.
The prose are well written with wonderful descriptive language;
unfortunately the tone of the book was very depressing.
Amy
liked how Death had a heart and sense of humor.
Marrie felt Death was disjointed; maybe a bit too real life. Susan felt Death had feelings; he did feel bad
picking up souls. Marrie commented that
Liesel never had an opportunity to mourn the losses. We loved the Mayor’s wife and sweet
Rudy. Zusak does a wonderful job with
his character development. Marrie
expressed her surprise that this book is on so many high school summer reading
list and is cataloged as young adult.
I
think because this subject has been written about countless times and we
(individually and as a group) have read many books on the holocaust there is a
feeling that maybe we should put this subject on the ‘hold’ list for now :-)
Next
up is Ellen’s pick, The Night Circus.
See you all soon.
Happy
Reading,
Jenn
