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Hello Hello! How are you?
Today I’m back with a quick and fun post I like to do on weeks when I’m too busy or don’t feel very creative. I used to always struggle to pick the book I would feature, but with so many interesting books on my TBR, I just have to stick out my hand and pick what I land on!
The book I am featuring today has been on my TBR for years, and I’m finally so excited to a) Have a physical copy and b) Start reading it soon. So without further ado, let’s get into this week’s post!
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 message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.
The tide climbs. The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous. On the rooftops of the beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars.
But what book is this quote from?
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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.
If you know anything about me, you know that I love historical fiction, especially about WWII. I think this is going to be a very tough and emotional read, but I’ve wanted to pick it up for months. I’m finally going to be reading it this month, with Yvonne from @bookworm_yve, and I’m really looking forward to it.
That’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this post!
See you soon, stay safe,
Ellie xx