All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Genre: Historical Fiction
Original publication date: May 2014
Book description: Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
Thoughts:
It took me a while to get into the story. It begins as two separate stories, one following Marie and her story of how she came t the situation she is in and how she became a dependant person and got the confidence in her own abilities and overcome the limitation of losing her eyesight.
The other story was a bit more interesting for me initially, Warner growing up in Germany, but it felt as different stories and have nothing to do with each other, that feeling was with me throughout the whole book.
I felt that once the stories collide, it was about 85% of the way through when it did, and then the time they spent together was minimal but it was dramatic enough to make an impression and then the connection is only enhanced afterward. The story continues after the war is done and it continues until almost the very end of the life of Marie. It does give you a great feeling, you know what happens even after providing a feeling of closure.
This book was picked for two main reasons
1. It was a 2018 Good Choice AWards winner or runner up. At the beginning of the year, I intended to read them all, or at least most of the winners. I forgot about this challenge of myself because I was not keeping an eye on it as the year went along, so bad me. I will try to catch up but I will definitely fail in this challenge XD
2. I want to get into historical fiction a bit more.
Lastly, I found it finally on Scribd as an audiobook, I was not even looking for it in audio, but I found it only in audio, I really liked the audiobook.
Because I was already reading this I decided to use it to accomplish the challenge Tome Topple Readathon.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Original publication date: May 2014
Book description: Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
Thoughts:
It took me a while to get into the story. It begins as two separate stories, one following Marie and her story of how she came t the situation she is in and how she became a dependant person and got the confidence in her own abilities and overcome the limitation of losing her eyesight.
The other story was a bit more interesting for me initially, Warner growing up in Germany, but it felt as different stories and have nothing to do with each other, that feeling was with me throughout the whole book.
I felt that once the stories collide, it was about 85% of the way through when it did, and then the time they spent together was minimal but it was dramatic enough to make an impression and then the connection is only enhanced afterward. The story continues after the war is done and it continues until almost the very end of the life of Marie. It does give you a great feeling, you know what happens even after providing a feeling of closure.
This book was picked for two main reasons
1. It was a 2018 Good Choice AWards winner or runner up. At the beginning of the year, I intended to read them all, or at least most of the winners. I forgot about this challenge of myself because I was not keeping an eye on it as the year went along, so bad me. I will try to catch up but I will definitely fail in this challenge XD
2. I want to get into historical fiction a bit more.
Lastly, I found it finally on Scribd as an audiobook, I was not even looking for it in audio, but I found it only in audio, I really liked the audiobook.
Because I was already reading this I decided to use it to accomplish the challenge Tome Topple Readathon.
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