NEW BOOK!!!!!

       Just started The Book Thief today. I chose this book mainly because I have read so many good reviews of this book on Blogger. I read that this book was narrated by Death. This stumped me for a second. Could this whole book literally be a personification of the idea of death? Does Death talk? Does it move? Does it have a mind of its own? The answer to all the above questions is yes.It starts off with Death telling the reader of his observations of the world. It says that all the different colors in the world that he gets to see is what keeps hims sane. In a way, this spirit kind of follows around this girl named Liesel- aka the book thief. He is with her during her bad times and her good. I am really not that far into the book, but I have learned that Liesel has a little brother who dies. She is also a foster child, and thus is moved around from place to place.

       Another reason I chose this book is because it takes place around WWII in Germany. I really like reading historical fiction because doing so brings me into another world and time period. It's written so realistically that I feel as if I was actually alive during the time period and experienced all the book talks about. I especially find this time period to be exceptionally interesting. It baffles me that there are actually people in this world who could act in such a soulless and harsh manner. How can they just persecute and kill of thousands of people just because they believed different things? I know they probably had their reasons of acting the way they did, but in my eyes its still inexcusable.

       After reading Night By Elie Wiesel last year for language arts, I gained a more deeper understanding of the pain and trouble that Jews had to suffer. I have a feeling that little Liesel will have to go through similar obstacles.

       The last reason I chose to read this book is because I saw it on the YALSA/Alex awards list as I was searching for a summer reading book. I read the summary and it looked really interesting so I put it on my 'Maybe' list, but never actually got to read it. I guess now is the time that this will all change...I look forward to reading the rest of this book.