*The Book Thief
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Safrolistics from Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 15, 2008
1939 - Nazi Germany - The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. Some important information - this novel is narrated by death. It's a small story, about: a girl; an accordionist; some fanatical Germans; a Jewish fist fighter; and quite a lot of thievery. Another thing you should know - death will visit the book thief three times.
Fantastic book, just waiting to find someone else to send it on to.
Fantastic book, just waiting to find someone else to send it on to.
Journal Entry 2 by Safrolistics at Not So Secret Halloween Surprise , Not So Secret Halloween Surprise -- Controlled Releases on Monday, October 20, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (10/30/2008 UTC) at Not So Secret Halloween Surprise , Not So Secret Halloween Surprise -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES: Being posted to my Halloween partner
I am so amazed, by my huge haul of books from the astounding safrolistics, in this years UK BookCrossing Not-So-Secret-Halloween/Autumnal-Surprise gift-giving event. Having trouble coping with the astonishment this being the largest pile of wish-list books I have ever received, WOW just doesn’t cover it!!!
This book, The Book Thief I placed on my wish-list in June of this year, 2008, as I had yet again caught sight of it on a discussion thread as being various different book-crossers favourite book. Right I thought, time to find out what all the fuss is about, this must be very special to be the subject of so much enthusiastic praise! Onto the wish-list and check out the charity shops for it! But as often happens with these kind of well loved and potentially life changing modern classics, people hang onto them, and I haven’t found a single copy in a charity shop! Yet again only two weeks ago I bumped into a bookcrosser friend I hadn’t seen in ages and she recommended this book to me as a MUST read. Oh boy have I been getting twitchy to get hold of this book!
Oh yip, Safrolistics many thanks, this is all so much fun!!!
This book, The Book Thief I placed on my wish-list in June of this year, 2008, as I had yet again caught sight of it on a discussion thread as being various different book-crossers favourite book. Right I thought, time to find out what all the fuss is about, this must be very special to be the subject of so much enthusiastic praise! Onto the wish-list and check out the charity shops for it! But as often happens with these kind of well loved and potentially life changing modern classics, people hang onto them, and I haven’t found a single copy in a charity shop! Yet again only two weeks ago I bumped into a bookcrosser friend I hadn’t seen in ages and she recommended this book to me as a MUST read. Oh boy have I been getting twitchy to get hold of this book!
Oh yip, Safrolistics many thanks, this is all so much fun!!!
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
OK discovered this book is on the wish-list of my un-official partner for the BCUK Not-So-Secret Father Christmas so… off into the post tomorrow for this. The devious subplot being my un-official partner NSSFC partner is my Christmas holiday hostess - so I’m planning snaffling this to read then!
OK discovered this book is on the wish-list of my un-official partner for the BCUK Not-So-Secret Father Christmas so… off into the post tomorrow for this. The devious subplot being my un-official partner NSSFC partner is my Christmas holiday hostess - so I’m planning snaffling this to read then!
I have also read the many reviews and at the time of placing this on my list had just finished the Walter Musto book set in the second World War.
Well, if you don't get to read it whilst here on this occasion, I'll keep it for you for another occasion (or send it on to you!).
Well, if you don't get to read it whilst here on this occasion, I'll keep it for you for another occasion (or send it on to you!).
Just finished another copy of this and WOWED!!!! So simply had to race here to leave my review, and say thanks again to safrolistics.
***A Few Wee Spoilers*** Memorably Death is the narrator here. Death, as a busy man of work sweeping his way through Europe during the Second World War and accompanying that with his dry and note-worthy commentary, is inspired. This tale primarily follows Liesel, an adopted eleven-year-old German girl though the discrete band of characters, even the background figures instantly engage ones interest. Liesel, whose father, she later works out must have been an imprisoned Communist, is delivered for adoption without any explanation by her mother who was probably dying. The adoptive parents the Hubermans, are Hans and Rosa a German couple who live in Molching, a small village outside Munich. Their grown children have left home and it’s the early days of the war. Rosa takes in laundry while Hans, a painter and decorator makes a small extra amount through playing an accordion in the bars some evenings. Liesel’s adoptive family subsequently, for a time, hide a Jew in their basement. Why and how they embarked upon this incalculably dangerous action, and the repercussions it leads to, make a riveting counterpoint to Liesel’s growing understanding of life and her interest in books and reading.
Liesel’s somehow always a tentative character but yet I really noticed that she blossomed in the company of Hans, her adoptive father, she learned to really watch and listen with the hidden Max, and in the presence of Rudy her best friend she learned to be determined, wiley and courageous. Rudy’s twitchy boyness was especially brilliant. I love how the arrival of Max in the Hubermans household demanded that I view the unrelentingly harsh Rosa in a softer light, and I loved Max’s story about The Word Shaker. That Frau Ilsa Hermann’s bathroom robe and slipper toes were decorated with little Nazi insignia made a chilling and tragic little picture that broke my heart.
This is what good writing is about for me, subtle alterations of angle and depth that come to change your understanding of whats been placed before you, almost before you’ve had the chance to realise that’s happened. What a balance, there are bits here as tough to tackle as old gristle standing out against an ease of humour that dazzles, momentarily like fireworks, but yet, that leave a burst of light on the retina of memory.
In case of confusion please note this copy is still with Flutterbies9
in Somerset!
***A Few Wee Spoilers*** Memorably Death is the narrator here. Death, as a busy man of work sweeping his way through Europe during the Second World War and accompanying that with his dry and note-worthy commentary, is inspired. This tale primarily follows Liesel, an adopted eleven-year-old German girl though the discrete band of characters, even the background figures instantly engage ones interest. Liesel, whose father, she later works out must have been an imprisoned Communist, is delivered for adoption without any explanation by her mother who was probably dying. The adoptive parents the Hubermans, are Hans and Rosa a German couple who live in Molching, a small village outside Munich. Their grown children have left home and it’s the early days of the war. Rosa takes in laundry while Hans, a painter and decorator makes a small extra amount through playing an accordion in the bars some evenings. Liesel’s adoptive family subsequently, for a time, hide a Jew in their basement. Why and how they embarked upon this incalculably dangerous action, and the repercussions it leads to, make a riveting counterpoint to Liesel’s growing understanding of life and her interest in books and reading.
Liesel’s somehow always a tentative character but yet I really noticed that she blossomed in the company of Hans, her adoptive father, she learned to really watch and listen with the hidden Max, and in the presence of Rudy her best friend she learned to be determined, wiley and courageous. Rudy’s twitchy boyness was especially brilliant. I love how the arrival of Max in the Hubermans household demanded that I view the unrelentingly harsh Rosa in a softer light, and I loved Max’s story about The Word Shaker. That Frau Ilsa Hermann’s bathroom robe and slipper toes were decorated with little Nazi insignia made a chilling and tragic little picture that broke my heart.
This is what good writing is about for me, subtle alterations of angle and depth that come to change your understanding of whats been placed before you, almost before you’ve had the chance to realise that’s happened. What a balance, there are bits here as tough to tackle as old gristle standing out against an ease of humour that dazzles, momentarily like fireworks, but yet, that leave a burst of light on the retina of memory.
In case of confusion please note this copy is still with Flutterbies9
in Somerset!
