The Book Thief

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Book Thief" border="0" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1390053681m/19063.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief">The Book Thief</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11466.Markus_Zusak">Markus Zusak</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/863447484">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
This book was one o f the best books I have read in a while!  It gets the "I stayed up until 2 AM reading this book" award.  I couldn't put it down!   A great book WWII story written from a German child's perspective.  Not many WWII books are written from this perspective and it was refreshing.<br><br>I know some readers didn't like the book written from the perspective of the Grim Reaper, but I thought it was very creative of the author.  I thought it was very cleaver.  <br><br>I absolutely loved Lissel.  She was such a strong character.  I loved the stories of her stealing books.  It was so much fun to read.  I couldn't wait for her to steal another one.<br><br>The Grim Reaper was a little bit of a "spoiler" in telling what happens before it happens.  I would be annoyed to know the "so and so" would die, but then by the time the story got to where "named character" died it was ok.  <br><br>There was no sex.  Some swearing.  The swearing was all in German so you know they are swearing, but not sure what the exact word they were saying was.  <br><br>LOVED it!  Highly recommend this book.
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