Welcome to Litsy!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I hadn‘t been aware of this book until a physical therapist recommended it to me, and it was wonderful! Story of a girl and her foster parents outside of Munich during WWII, narrated by death. Fantastic characters, writing, and narration for the audiobook.

Folio Society did an edition of my all-time favorite book, The Book Thief.

I HAD to have it. It's gorgeous 😍

Death, but make it cozy.

Found another #pantone2025 match!
#antiquewhite

What a great read! I can‘t believe I haven‘t read it until now.

#bookspinbingo
#LitsyAtoZ #LetterZ
#pop25 - book I want to read based on the last sentence

“The Book Thief”
The Book Thief is a tragic war time story narrated by a compassionate death telling his 3 encounters of Liesel, a young girl living in Germany during the Second World War. Liesel steals books and learns to read and enjoys it as a sense of safety. Her and a Jewish boy hidden in her families basement befriend and Liesel is the only one to make it out of a grizzly carpet bombing of her town, kissing the boy in his dying moments.

Death introduces himself as the narrator of this story. Death spotted “the book thief” a total of three times, on a train, coming for a pilot who had crashed their vessel, and after a bombing. The author tied three colours to each sighting, red white and black, the nazi flag.

Engaging story
From the perspective of Death
And rebellion
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#haikureview #historicalfiction #eyeopener

If I had a dollar for every time I read, "Jesus, Mary and Joseph" as an expletive, I would finally be able to buy that keyboard piano I've been saving up for ?

But seriously, this book is good. Eye opening. Introspective. Humanizing. (Is that a word?)
Took me long enough, but I'm glad I picked this up. I'm on track to finish today.

#currentlyreading #historicalfiction

Even though it is in my favourite „genre“ books with/about books, I never read this. Now I had to because it was a bookclub pick and I struggled. The scattered storytelling never let me fully get into the story. I liked the characters but I think it would have been much more powerful if their story would have been told differently.

1. I never take the item on top. If there are a stack of books at a store I never take the first copy.
2. If I have a pen with no top I will not use it. Clicker pens are not my first choice, but I can get around the missing top thing with clicker pen.
3. I have a visceral reaction to someone popping their knuckles.

#TLT #threelistthursday @dabbe

“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me, it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment."

Zusak's unique narrative style and well-drawn characters make it a poignant exploration of love, loss, and resilience. The book has such an amazing emotional depth and thought-provoking themes that captivate young audiences.

This book is powerful and moving novel set in Nazi Germany. It's narrated by Death and follows the life of Liesel Meminger, a young girl living with foster parents. The story revolves around the impact of words, literature, and the human spirit during a tumultuous time.

The book is about a girl coming of age in Germany during World War II, with Death serving as the narrator. In coping with the harrowing events of the time, Liesel and her Jewish friend Max resort to stealing books to distract themselves. the book balances reality and imagination by anchoring itself in historical events but having an unexpected narrator.

They have punctured hearts.
They have beaten lungs.

While death is busy collecting the souls of so many death in Nazi Germany,he can't help looking at Liesel's life,a little girl who was adopted after her parents were sent to a concentration camp and that becomes a book thief.I loved to see the day to day in Nazi Germany from a kids perspective,still room for lot of a lot of heartwarming occasions, lots of lovable characters. The whole book is great, but the first chapter was probably my favourite.

Glad I gave Zusak another try after I Am the Messenger, but this solidifies my impression that his stories carry an emotional impact that I have to brace myself for. I appreciate that it shows how Germany had both fanatical bigots AND those who stood against Nazi hate, prejudice and violence, to varying degrees of ability and courage, all the while knowing the danger of facing such an oppressive force even as a citizen. 1/?

Consider me destroyed. 💔

Get better, OR ELSE. 😅

Gender neutral! ? I like the "It simply is." Feel like when it comes to discussions of gender identity, that could come in handy....

The observation just struck me. I often end up surveying the sky to rest my eyes when walking downtown, take them off the crowd by the crosswalk, but I do end up more captivated at sunrise and sunset. What if I catalogued all the shades of light and sky in the times in between?

“When Death has a story to tell, you listen.”

#NonhumanProtag

#BookBinge

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I just cried onto the pages finishing this tonight. It is a beautiful sad story. Loved it, loved the characters and wanted them all to live, love and be happy. Most don‘t get that chance. Death tells the story with care and compassion, gently lifting away the souls lost and collecting colors.

This has been on my TBR forever! Finally reading it… what took me so long?

#RoyalReadingRoom

#TheBookThief is one of my absolute favourite books 📖, and I‘m happy I own the English version now too! Although, I have to admit that this book is actually better in the German translation?! It works so much better without random German phrases sprinkled in.

I‘m spending the long weekend at my parents and today, we used our small boat 🚤 for the 1st time this year and enjoyed the sun ☀️.

This book was a cool read it shows so much emotion. I would recommend if you like history novels.

“I was foolish.“
“No,“ Papa said. “You were a boy.“

I enjoyed the plot of the book thief. It was interesting how death was the narrator, but it was very sad as well. I did however get a little more insight about the holocaust through this book.

This book is a great depiction of the struggle of the people who‘s lives were changed because of World War II. It shows it from the perspective of the people in Germany who did not conform to the Nazi regime. It filled a young girl who‘s life is torn apart by the war but finds her way of getting through by reading books.

good book

the book was interesting, but too slow for my liking. there was a plot, but it was extremely slow paced. the end is really sad.

I like the storyline but I didn‘t like how slow it was. The ending was sad

I loved this book!!! It was great!!! I had all sorts of emotions while reading this book. It was a great take on World War II!!! I love the characters so much!!! I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars!!! #20in4 readathon @Andrew65

I liked the book. It showed a lot on what was happening with the war to the people that weren‘t a part of that actually war part. Young and old and how it affected them.

pretty good, have read it before and makes me cry every time

This book is written in a unique style, as it is told from the perspective of Death but follows the story of a 10-year-old girl named Liesel. The writing is broken up by announcements or interjections in bold font that clarify aspects of the story, which helps with the flow of the story. I like the third-person narrative because it offers insight into all the characters and into the mind of Death himself.

Brilliant book, really heartbreaking and Death as the narrator gives it a very unique prospective.

Seriously, what took me so long to read this book? It‘s heartbreaking and stunning and so beautifully written. I loved it. This one deserves all of the hype. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Sad subject, superb writing 🤌

A reread but for the life of me I couldn‘t remember anything about the book from when I read it the first time 🤦🏻‍♀️ and I‘m so glad I reread it. An absolutely wonderful way to tell a story especially during WWII from Deaths perspective. And although it‘s a tough and heartbreaking read, most of the book is so lively following Liesel around!

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

Me…tomorrow morning, no doubt. 🙋‍♀️😅😴

My son had to read and annotate The Book Thief for school, so I decided to do it with him. He had to have 20 annotations per section, so he had a lot more than I did. We finished today, with both of us crying A LOT.

Any other Zach Bryan fans out there? ❤️😎🎶🎤😁

A heart breaking read, but could not put it down.

I‘m in Berlin this weekend. This is a memorial at the Bahnhof Friedrichstraße. It‘s called Trains to Death, Trains to Life 1938-1945 and it remembers the deported families. Most of them were deported to the East, where they were brutally murdered. Only some of them had the chance to flee Germany and to survive. Yesterday was the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We remember.

#Berlin #History