All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The other day a friend posted something on Facebook that caught my eye. It was a picture of a girl on the beach reading a book. The caption read, "The moment when you're reading a book and the whole world around you does not exist anymore."
As an avid reader, being lost in a novel is a rare and magical moment. You know you have uncovered something wonderful. When I began All The Light We Cannot See, the world around me ceased to exist when I read page one. I was in heaven! I couldn't put this book down.
Marie-Laure is a blind girl living in Paris as Hitler is rising to power in Germany. Her father is the lock master at the museum, the keeper of all its keys. Papa builds Marie-Laure models of the city so she can learn to navigate the streets on her own. She counts steps and storm drains under his loving guidance.
Werner is an orphan in Germany with a talent for fixing radios. He's sent to a special school to learn engineering since his skills are in demand by the Nazis. His loyalty is a way to survive and he learns to hide his compassionate heart from view.
All The Light We Cannot See is the story of two young lives coping with the horrors of war from different viewpoints. One has the ability to see, the other can only feel. This book is filled with love and terror, mystery and myth, kindness and hatred, all told so vividly I bubbled over with every emotion.
Ah! My disappointing streak is finally over. No wonder this novel won the Pulitzer Prize. I adored every single page.
The other day a friend posted something on Facebook that caught my eye. It was a picture of a girl on the beach reading a book. The caption read, "The moment when you're reading a book and the whole world around you does not exist anymore."
As an avid reader, being lost in a novel is a rare and magical moment. You know you have uncovered something wonderful. When I began All The Light We Cannot See, the world around me ceased to exist when I read page one. I was in heaven! I couldn't put this book down.
Marie-Laure is a blind girl living in Paris as Hitler is rising to power in Germany. Her father is the lock master at the museum, the keeper of all its keys. Papa builds Marie-Laure models of the city so she can learn to navigate the streets on her own. She counts steps and storm drains under his loving guidance.
Werner is an orphan in Germany with a talent for fixing radios. He's sent to a special school to learn engineering since his skills are in demand by the Nazis. His loyalty is a way to survive and he learns to hide his compassionate heart from view.
All The Light We Cannot See is the story of two young lives coping with the horrors of war from different viewpoints. One has the ability to see, the other can only feel. This book is filled with love and terror, mystery and myth, kindness and hatred, all told so vividly I bubbled over with every emotion.
Ah! My disappointing streak is finally over. No wonder this novel won the Pulitzer Prize. I adored every single page.
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