Owlowiscious Girls

I didn't have much time to read this week so I don't have much to say.  I did start a new book though that seemed fun The Invisible Library .  It was originally for the prompt "an espionage thriller"  but it seems a lot more appropriate for the "steampunk" prompt.  I am only about 80 pages in though.  And if you know me I love eating and cooking as much as reading and it started raining very hard today so I paired today's reading with potato soup and a delicious homemade bread.  Well I can't wait to tell you what I think about this book and hopefully I will be done tomorrow!

I only read one book this week but it was pretty long- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This book was engaging, sad, and full of humanities worst and greatest moments.  I got into the book right away and then it felt slightly dragging during the last quarter of it.  Lisel steals books.  In the end, it saves her.  Books and words become her life.  I sadly felt she was a little flat on her own.  It was only because of her relationships did I feel her fully.  It seemed when she was alone she was very rough and hard to take.  Her relationship with her foster father- Hans Hubermann is not short of amazing and touching.  Rudy is her school friend who is crazy and fun.  Max is the Jew the family hides in their basement and gives her books he writes himself as gifts.  Let me not forget Rosa and Ilsa- her foster mama and the woman who lets her "steal" books from her. These characters are all about to suffer.  You can tell because Death is the narrator and he does quite a bi