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January Discussion Thread: The Book Thief (Spoiler Alert!)

mommy2boyz

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Great chat tonight ladies! Glad you all could join us! Some of the girls at the chat hadn't read the book, so we didn't discuss it all that much, so we'll do that here.

It seemed to get mixed reviews tonight from those of us that read it.

So, what did you think? Was it too sad for you? Or maybe like me did you find it a story of survival and kindness in a nations darkest hour? I thought it showed another side of the Holocaust too. A side where people were willing to take a chance to protect fellow man. I thought it remarkable that a girl who had lost so much could still find the will to press on. I think I'd have given up the day the bombs dropped on Molching Street. Or maybe I'd have even given up before that as I watched my brother die and my mother left me on a strangers stoop. I found a goodness in the heart of the characters...Papa, Liesel, Rudy, Max and even Mama with her 'Saukerls' and 'Saumenches'. And as always with a story surrounding the Holocaust, true or fictional, I found myself asking why. I've visited museum after museum, read book after book and have walked the grounds of Dachau. Still I can find no resolution to the question, "Why?". What about you?

Discuss away!
 
I'm still reading the book, I find it hard to concentrate with everything going on here this month lol, but so far I like it. I'm at the part where they steal the food from the priests. It's hard to know why these kinds of things happen, I guess they were looking for their "ideal".
 
I normally shy away from books about the Holocaust, since it is so very heart wrenching - and unimaginable to my mind. However, I liked this book (although it was filled with despair and tragedy). I liked that Liesel and Max survived. I thought the character development in the story was well done and the relationship between Liesel and Papa was beautifully described.
 
The character development was truly wonderful in this book. So many people fitting into the puzzle, yet I felt I truly had a sense of who they each were. He really spared no detail when it came to giving the reader a piece of each of their humanity.
 
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