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brownieboo's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Abandonment, and Colonisation
Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism
hoarde_of_words's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and War
Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Alcohol
joan_salder's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
** spoiler alert ** Here is a small fact: you are going to die
It tore me apart!
That is not all I would say about this book.
I am astonished by the context and perspective of the story, as it is told by someone we have never met: Death. Death says he's haunted by humans, and I believe he's right. We are born to die or we die to be born again, I don't know, secrets are still secrets. The souls, the people, we make links with them, we love them, knowing that one day none of us will exist, not only on earth, but also in the minds.
A reassuring announcement: Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
Papa (Hans Hubermann), just blew my heart away as he died. His death was more tragic than the rest. Oh dear Rudy. Do you have any idea how much Liesel loved you? Don't you know how she feels about your death? Oh no! All you cared about was that kiss you never received from her. Is that so? Eh? The tragic deaths of all the people around and death tells so peacefully, as if it sedated them. I cannot help but love every character, even death. Everything is beautiful in this book. The kiss, the theft, the mini-stories of Max, the presents given to Max by Liesel, the accordion, the insults of Rosa Hubermann (Mama) and everything. The accordion breathes as Papa breathes, Papa is the accordion. He is the sweetness of music and the taste of music, the keys and the notes because he is the accordion.
One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life and death to more death
The accordion and the book, they bought the characters together. Papa with Rosa, Liesel with Papa, Rosa with Liesel, Liesel with Rudy, Papa with Max and Max with Liesel. It is unbelievable that two normal things which are often found in the world could bring people together and save someone's life, but life is surprising in its many ways.
Hitler truly deserved the death he received in my view because he is a whore
'When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.
One story I cannot deny is "The Word Shaker." Words have the power to destroy us, to rebuild us, to convince, to reject and to even capture the world. Liesel, at such a young age, has understood something years of experience cannot and that means she has experienced the world in these few years?
'After all,' he said, 'you should know it yourself - a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.'
Papa is heaven and anyone cannot prove it to be wrong that that is why he lives in Himmel Street. He is a teacher, a friend, a best friend, an uncle, a husband and a father. Liesel may have seen or not seen her father but Papa is the only true father she had.
Mama. What could I say about her? She is a coconut: hard on the outside but soft in the inside. My opinions changed about her when she hugged Liesel for the first time after she had a bath. I can say nothing more because she is heaven's wife.
'His hair is like feathers.'
The Jew fist-fighter is the one that broke my heart for the first time in the book when he left Liesel and Papa and Mama with the thought that they would get caught because of him. No, he shouldn't have, but yes he should have because that is how he survived.
The lovely Rudy Steiner is the little miracle that happened in Liesel's life. He is like a pure golden chain that when tugged at, breaks. Oh dear Rudy.
Liesel Meminger hated herself for being in the basement, writing her stupid story, but no, it was not her fault at all. It was the stupid Fuhrer that did all that happened.
It is my favorite book of all time and I loved it more than anything out there, just like Liesel.
A Masterpiece
It tore me apart!
That is not all I would say about this book.
I am astonished by the context and perspective of the story, as it is told by someone we have never met: Death. Death says he's haunted by humans, and I believe he's right. We are born to die or we die to be born again, I don't know, secrets are still secrets. The souls, the people, we make links with them, we love them, knowing that one day none of us will exist, not only on earth, but also in the minds.
A reassuring announcement: Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
Papa (Hans Hubermann), just blew my heart away as he died. His death was more tragic than the rest. Oh dear Rudy. Do you have any idea how much Liesel loved you? Don't you know how she feels about your death? Oh no! All you cared about was that kiss you never received from her. Is that so? Eh? The tragic deaths of all the people around and death tells so peacefully, as if it sedated them. I cannot help but love every character, even death. Everything is beautiful in this book. The kiss, the theft, the mini-stories of Max, the presents given to Max by Liesel, the accordion, the insults of Rosa Hubermann (Mama) and everything. The accordion breathes as Papa breathes, Papa is the accordion. He is the sweetness of music and the taste of music, the keys and the notes because he is the accordion.
One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life and death to more death
The accordion and the book, they bought the characters together. Papa with Rosa, Liesel with Papa, Rosa with Liesel, Liesel with Rudy, Papa with Max and Max with Liesel. It is unbelievable that two normal things which are often found in the world could bring people together and save someone's life, but life is surprising in its many ways.
Hitler truly deserved the death he received in my view because he is a whore
'When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.
One story I cannot deny is "The Word Shaker." Words have the power to destroy us, to rebuild us, to convince, to reject and to even capture the world. Liesel, at such a young age, has understood something years of experience cannot and that means she has experienced the world in these few years?
'After all,' he said, 'you should know it yourself - a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.'
Papa is heaven and anyone cannot prove it to be wrong that that is why he lives in Himmel Street. He is a teacher, a friend, a best friend, an uncle, a husband and a father. Liesel may have seen or not seen her father but Papa is the only true father she had.
Mama. What could I say about her? She is a coconut: hard on the outside but soft in the inside. My opinions changed about her when she hugged Liesel for the first time after she had a bath. I can say nothing more because she is heaven's wife.
'His hair is like feathers.'
The Jew fist-fighter is the one that broke my heart for the first time in the book when he left Liesel and Papa and Mama with the thought that they would get caught because of him. No, he shouldn't have, but yes he should have because that is how he survived.
The lovely Rudy Steiner is the little miracle that happened in Liesel's life. He is like a pure golden chain that when tugged at, breaks. Oh dear Rudy.
Liesel Meminger hated herself for being in the basement, writing her stupid story, but no, it was not her fault at all. It was the stupid Fuhrer that did all that happened.
It is my favorite book of all time and I loved it more than anything out there, just like Liesel.
A Masterpiece
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Physical abuse, Slavery, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Violence, and Alcohol
johannslauren15's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
I like this book, but it was really slow and probably would not read again since it became so daunting to read. I really did fell in love with the character, but I am just really torn about this story. I feel like I would have just read from 0-400 if I knew what was going to happen (plus Death just spoiled the story and did not make the ending so interesting I guess. I think Death's perspective was interesting but not as perplexed as I thought it would/should've been even if he does this all the time. When I think back upon what I read from this book, I just end up very confused about what I was reading.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Cultural appropriation
Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Misogyny, Blood, Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol
starlessnights's review against another edition
1.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail
averyconfusedhomosapiensbooks's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, and War
Moderate: Genocide and Blood
Minor: Murder and Alcohol
angel_lyd's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
I can’t even begin to describe what this book put me through emotionally. I was recommended it by a friend and I decided to read it on holiday, thinking ‘surely it can’t be that emotional’. LORD was I mistaken. Liesel Meminger is a foster child who lives in a small German town during World War Two. Following the death of her brother, 9 year old Liesel moves in with the Hubermann family. It tells the story of her arrival to her foster family, her attempting to teach herself to read, a Jewish boxer hidden in their house from Nazi’s and much more. It was absolutely heartbreaking the entire way through and I just felt myself wishing I could hug this little girl.
I won’t say a full spoiler, I will just simply state that near the end of the story something horrific and heartbreaking happens, so heartbreaking in fact that I was tearing up on my sun bed and I had to get a pinã colada to cure my sadness.
I won’t say a full spoiler, I will just simply state that near the end of the story something horrific and heartbreaking happens, so heartbreaking in fact that I was tearing up on my sun bed and I had to get a pinã colada to cure my sadness.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol
This book discusses world war two, anybody uncomfortable with mentions of nazis, death, violence, antisemetism etc should not read this.