In fact, I think he did write about paint drying a couple of times. He could write about paint drying, and I think I’d have continued turning the pages. I was sort of curious about what was going to happen next, but honestly I was more interested in how Markus Zusak was going to say it. It’s original, a holocaust story, which is common, but this one has the unique twist of focusing more on those left behind, parents of those who have been sent to war, townspeople who are going hungry, Germans who don’t necessarily support Hitler.īut the words, they are amazing. When I got an email inviting me to participate in a conference call with the author, which was held in conjunction with the upcoming release of The Book Thief movie, I picked it up and started it that day. When it was one of the choices in my daughter’s independent reading unit a couple of years ago, she read it, so buying it came in handy, and her enjoyment of it reminded me that I still wanted to read it. Yes, I read a lot, but books that I think I want to read are generally pushed aside for the new shiny books that come in to be reviewed. But bringing it home and putting it on my shelf did not equate to actually reading it. Years ago, I saw it sitting on a shelf at a discount, so I bought it. In my materials for the phone interview I got to do with the author, I read that it’s been on the NYT Bestseller list for 300 weeks. One of our former contributors Lisa reviewed The Book Thief almost 4 years ago here on the site, giving it 5-Stars, and always talked about it as one of her favorite books. It was on my list to read, and that was confirmed each time someone else read and loved it. The Book Thief is one of those books about which people (book bloggers and booklovers in particular) gush. I attended a press trip to NYC for The Book Thief movie, paid for by Twentieth Century Fox.
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