For my spring reading book, I read The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak. The book takes place in Nazi Germany, during WWII, and follows a little girl living with a foster family, all the while being narrated by Death. As the little girl, Liesel, grows, she learns to read and write, and starts amassing a collection of books. She starts to steal them from book burnings, and saving them from fires.
Personally, I liked this book, and found the premise interesting. It was great to read it from Death's perspective, something I had not expected to find. The story touches on a very interesting subject, that of knowledge control and information transferal. In Nazi Germany, like many other totalitarian regimes, books were burned to keep the population in the dark, or to prevent the spreading of unwanted information. Censorship was rampant, and people would be none the wiser to what was being kept from them. Liesel makes a statement to go against this grain, to try and prevent those books from being destroyed. She shares a hunger for knowledge and the preservation of it, a trait which I admire and share as well. I heavily encourage others to read this book as well.
Personally, I liked this book, and found the premise interesting. It was great to read it from Death's perspective, something I had not expected to find. The story touches on a very interesting subject, that of knowledge control and information transferal. In Nazi Germany, like many other totalitarian regimes, books were burned to keep the population in the dark, or to prevent the spreading of unwanted information. Censorship was rampant, and people would be none the wiser to what was being kept from them. Liesel makes a statement to go against this grain, to try and prevent those books from being destroyed. She shares a hunger for knowledge and the preservation of it, a trait which I admire and share as well. I heavily encourage others to read this book as well.
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