Chris Palumbo Palumbo itibaren El Hoyo, San Jerónimo, Antioquia, کلمبیا itibaren El Hoyo, San Jerónimo, Antioquia, کلمبیا

Death narrates the haunting story of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl living in Nazi Germany. In order to cope with the horrors around her, Liesel clings to books and stories as her lifeline. Liesel steals books, often with the help of her dear friend Rudy. She reads the stolen through the night to scare off her nightmares. She reads aloud to her neighbors in their kitchens and bomb shelters to distract them from their fears and grief. She reads to Max, the Jewish man hiding in her basement. She reads and reads. As expected, it's a really really dark book. I had trouble finishing it.

A cute little story, and quite exciting too. ;-)

Highly recommended! I may even force the book club to read someday. :) I really enjoyed this book. The opening chapter is fascinating and the author really did his homework on MPD. The story was complicated and yet not so much. The people you think are crazy are not so crazy afterall and the ones you think are normal end up being the weirdos. The second half of the book is more difficult to read because it gets into why the protagonists have this disorder. There were only a few things I didn't like about the book: in the beginning the author gives you the pov of both of the protagonists for each scene. It's necessary at first because of the switching of personalities for both of them, but it goes on a little too long. Eventually the reader is able to extrapolate what is happening inside the head of the other person. However, the author does eventually cut that out, so that's good. I also didn't think it was at all necessary to add the concept of transgender into a novel about mutiple personality. There just wasn't any reason for it. But it doesn't really detract from the novel, so I guess it's okay. The only other thing I didn't like was the way the protagonist responds to the person who "took care" of their abuser. It just didn't seem like that's what a person with MPD would do, but then again, considering the particular form this persons MPD took, I guess I can see it.