All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Enjoyment: 3.92Quality: 4.33Characters: 4.17Plot: 4.33
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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. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here


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  • Thoughts from 15%

    Unfortunately, I'm slightly bored with this one. I'm listening to it, so I wonder if it had been better as a physical read. I also watched the mini series.

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  • Thoughts from 15% (page 79)

    I have had this book sitting on my bookshelf since 2021 and I finally decided to start reading it. Especially since I watched the limited series last year on Netflix. It is interesting so far.

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  • Reading Update from 10%

    I’m listening to the audiobook and I’m having a hard time keeping track with the character changes. Maybe the audiobook was a bad idea? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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