“What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.” ― Anthony Doerr
After almost two weeks of reading at night, I can now finally post an update for the PopSugar 2015 Reading Challenge. This book required a lot of time and effort. But once you’re done, you can definitely say that it is worth it.
Disclaimer: I am not a student anymore, but I think my former school libraries and my English teachers now suggest reading this book. 🙂
A book you we’re supposed to read in school (39th) – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. 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, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
Thoughts:
This book has intimidated me for quite sometime now. But after a few book friends told me to please try it, I took a leap of courage and read!
530 pages are, for me, tedious but this book is just… phenomenal.
I promise to write my review as soon as possible!
(fingers crossed)
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That’s a lot of a book. I wonder if I have that kind of patience right now? Will take a sneak peek and see.
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Yeah. It’s really… intimidating. But it reading it is such a purely blissful experience. 🙂 It’s like you’re reading a 500-page prose poetry. The chapters are short and the paragraphs and sentences are just so vivid and lovely to read. 🙂
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You make it sound good. Will keep my eyes open 🙂
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Yay! Glad I did because it is really really great!
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https://bookcomablog.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/encouraging-thunder-award/
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This is just so sweet darling. 🙂 Thanks a lot! 😀
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Oh, I am listening to this as an audiobook right now. It’s mesmerizing. What beautiful writing!
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Yes! I agree! Anthony Doerr is one of our time’s finest scribblers. 🙂
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It’s a gorgeous book, full of passion, poetry and power. Everyone should read it.
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I agree! I am so glad that I forget how intimidated I am with the book’s length. It’s just so worth it. 🙂
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Hello dear, I invited you to participate in the quote series. Just follow the link attached here. Kind regards http://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/2015/10/27/what-are-you-doing/
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Thank you, Jacq! I’ve been thinking of ways on how will I tell you guys what has been happening in my life for the past few week and I guess this series will do that for me. Thank a lot my dear!
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You are most welcome. Take your time and hope to read from you soon 🙂
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Thanks, Jacq!
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Wow. The summary makes this book sound so good, though it is rather long (I find as I get older that it’s more difficult to find time to get through longer books, alas). I can’t envision any of my schools suggesting something like this!
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This book is really really good! It’s like you’re reading a 50–page prose poetry. The adjectives are so vivid and the chapters are short too. 🙂
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I think I would like to read this thanks for the recommendation
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That’s good to hear, Maria. 🙂 Thank you!
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