If I could give give this book 10 out of 5 stars I would. Being a drama queen, but this book changed me. Where in the world do I start??

This novel follows Liesel, a young girl when she arrives at her foster home in Germany for during the war years. We follow her intermediate and teen years as she grows up in a war torn country, in a house homing a Jew, and a passion for books. Narrated from Death's perspective, this novel had me hooked from the beginning. Reading it as a book club with students, I found it ridiculously hard to stop myself from reading ahead next week. The writing style was poetic, eerily beautiful, haunting... the list goes on. Liesel and every other character was 3D and will forever feel like real people. I bawled, I smiled, I gasped. This is officially going on my list of books everyone has to read. Thanks to the ladies of the bookclub, 'The Bookclub That Shall Not Be Named', for choosing this novel to read this term.

Triggers: death, antisemitism, starvation, bullying, brainwashing, suicide