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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Start date: January 1, 2017

Finish date: January 31, 2017

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Sep 18, 2018 Kat Jackson rated it it was amazing

When I finally sat down with this book and read it, it was absolutely wonderful. It was well done and a read that will stick with me for some time.

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Mar 10, 2015 Valissa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library

I realize that I am going nuts with five-stars this season, but it is so hard to resist. I loved this book, it was sweet, romantic (not in love but in atmosphere), horrible, enlightening, and surprising in the end.

Reading it really brought home how much I love my sight. If I could not read with the speed and elan that I do now I would die. I need that freedom from my own mind and the world around me. That being said, sometimes I read about horrible things, like WWII, and learn something new, so ...more

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Jan 31, 2017 tiph rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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While the book took me a little bit to get into, once I was a quarter of the way through, I couldn't put it down.

I both adored and feared this book. I ended up doing a lot of research about some of the specifics of WW2 that I wasn't aware of previously, or hadn't considered fully, and the intimacy of the book - young German soldiers, ordinary French people dealing with occupation - struck a chord and brought the vast, unfathomable horror that was the war into a more personal light.

The story is ...more

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Aug 27, 2014 Beth rated it really liked it

Shelves: pulitzer

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Mar 15, 2017 Andrea rated it liked it

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Dec 31, 2014 Delores Thomas rated it it was amazing

This is an interesting story of a young blind girl and what happens to her and her family during WW II. She lived in Paris and her father worked in the National Museum. Just before the Nazis took over they escaped to the sea shore. There are other sub characters including her uncle who had been in WW I and had nightmares about it and a young German boy who was a whiz at mathematical problems. The girl and her household become part of the resistance.

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Oct 02, 2015 Amanda rated it it was amazing

It took me a while to really get into this book. Doerr takes his time weaving together the stirring stories of Marie and Werner. I'm glad I didn't give up on it because now I love everything about it. Doerr uses such beautiful imagery to play our such a horrible time in history. He makes you fall slowly in love with all the characters (expect of course the nasties like von Rumpel and Bastian. Doerr made me quickly hate them!)
Now I want to visit Saint Malo, count the storm drains, eat warm bread ...more

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