Monday, March 12, 2018

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

So it went from cousin to aunt to aunt to Mama and we'll see:

So far, so great.

Scribner 2014

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio.
 - Joseph Goebbels

No kidding, now what about that hideous squawk box which I've swore off- temporarily- the teevee?




Leaflets
At dusk they pour from the sky.  They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses.  Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles.  Urgent mesasge to the inhabitants of this town, they say.  Depart immediately to open country.

Well that's a good start to make me want to know what happens next.

3 comments:

  1. I can play with my phone instead of reading most days. But it just got to page 69 and both kids are having nightmares about the coming War. It's a good book.

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  2. Change 352 - 353



    For portions of every day, she manages to lose herself in realms of memory: the faint impressions of the visual world before she was six, when Paris was like a vast kitchen, pyramids of cabbages and carrots everywhere; Baker's stalls overflowing with pastries, they stacked like cordwood in the fishmonger's booth,

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  3. I finished the book just now. It's sad when a good book ends. But this one, I didn't even know it it ended until I turn the page.

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