The Book Thief Markus Zusak (Facebook) (Twitter) (Tumblr) Alfred A. Knopf (2007), Paperback (ISBN 0375842209 / 9780375842207) Fiction (YA), 576 pages Source: Purchased I have no good excuses for why it took so long for me to read The Book Thief. I bought it more than four years ago–it was logged into my LibraryThing catalog on January 1, 2010–and began reading it just over four months ago, on January 1 of this year. It was the first book I started reading in […]
May the Fourth be with you! What I’m reading in print / on screen The day after the Readathon, I finally finished what was supposed to be my first book of 2014. Because that was a self-imposed deadline as opposed to an external one, I picked it and put it down several times, but after nearly four months, I’m done with The Book Thief. I haven’t written up my thoughts about it yet, but I think I’ll get that done in a much shorter […]
I spent a part of my workday yesterday on a field trip…to the theater. We had extra tickets donated for a Center Theater Group school-group performance. We were there to see The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, a Broadway translation of the classic American opera about a rural Southern black community written by a couple of white guys from New York. I found myself a bit conflicted by some of the baggage this show carries, particularly […]
