The Book Thief Review

Long.Depressing.Inticng. These are words that describe Markus Zusak's masterpiece The Book Thief. This novel takes place in a small German town during Hitler's reign.Leisel lives with her foster parents. She starts stealing books from book burnings and the mayors wife.Also,her family hides a Jew,adding to the ever present danger! Overall,this book was enjoyable.Some of the morals are questionable,such as the young child's thievery and some of the language used by many of the characters.This is one of those books that defiantly need to be taken into historical context to be fully appreciated. There where some parts on this that were somewhat hard to read through,but I was glad I did.This is not a happy read for sure,and I recommend it for readers who have a sense of digression! Overall,I liked this book and will read more of Zusak's novels in the future!

Sarah's Key Review

I recently read Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay.

Sarah's Key follows two women,Sarah and Julia.

Sarah's Stazynski is a young Jewish girl living in Paris in the 1940's.She and her family were stripped from their home by the French police.In hopes to save her little brother,she locked him in a cupboard.But hope in returning to save him grows dim when they are led to a roundup.Everywhere around her was sorrow and pain.Then to add onto it,she gets separated from her parents.But she meets a girl named Rachel who she escapes with.They go to an elderly couples house.They gave gave them food and care.But the police found Rachel when she was sick and she was taken away.So,the couple and Sarah went to Paris to find her brother.But when they got there,they found him dead.

Flash forward to 2002.

Julia is a journalist writing about the anniversary of Velodrome d' Hiver.She does some research,at the first doing it because she feels she has to.But then she became some what obsessed.She learned her new apartment was the one Sarah used to live in.She also had personal problems.First,her husband,Bertrand,is going through a mid-life crisis.When Julia told her she was pregnet,he wanted her to get an abortion because he couldn't handle another kid.Also,she had a hard time finding information from people who knew her.But to her luck,she found Sarah's son,William Rainsferd.Unfortunately,he didn't know anything about the past of his mother.And when it came to the abortion,she didn't go through with it,resulting in her divorce.

I adore this book!I felt the pain every single one of the characters felt!I think it was amazing that she didn't go through with the abortion even if it meant losing her husband!There were some things I didn't like,but it was still a solid book.It's not a good feel book,so just keep that in mind!