Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See absolutely lives up to the hype! This historical fiction novel, set during World War II, alternates between the perspectives of two main characters: Werner Pfennig, a teenage boy, and Marie-Laure, a blind teenage girl. Don't be the last to discover this book! Netflix is creating a four-part limited series based on All the Light We Cannot See, and I’m so excited to see the adaptation. Hugh Laurie is playing Marie-Laure's great uncle! This is the secon...

This is a fantastic book. Its very high ratings (4.3; half of the ratings are "5's") renew my faith that Goodreads ratings actually mean something. With almost 50,000 reviews on Goodreads, I don’t feel there's a lot for me to add, but here’s a brief summary of the plot, and I’ll give a few examples of the great literary writing found in Anthony Doerr's *All the Light We Cannot See*. It’s just before the Nazi invasion and occupation of Paris. A young blind girl relies on her father for everythin...

Honestly, what the actual f\*\*k? I mean, we all know the blind person trope (Daredevil, etc) and the lovable Nazi trope (Hiroshima Mon Amour) and the mystical object searched for by evil Nazis trope (Indiana Jones), so why throw all of these together? **All the Light We Cannot See** was readable but no more so than a pulp fiction thriller. Honestly, I don't see this as being Pulitzer quality. The characters were okay, the narration interesting, but a masterpiece? The best US fiction in 2015? Pe...

"So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?" I'm going to be honest – love for Anthony Doerr's *All the Light We Cannot See* didn't hit me straight away. In fact, my first attempt to read it last year ended with me putting it aside to find something easier, lighter, and less descriptive. I know – meh, what a quitter.But this book is built on beautiful imagery. Both in the literal sense – the physical world of 1940s Paris and Ger...

April 20, 2015 - PULITZER WINNER for 2014 The brain is locked in total darkness of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? Marie Laure LeBlanc is a teen who went blind at age 6. She and her father, Daniel, fled Paris ahead of...

All the Light We Cannot Seeby Anthony Doerr This book has hauntingly beautiful prose. It's overflowing with metaphors, painting gorgeous images. I didn't want it to end, but I couldn't put it down. If you're looking for a book review that captures the essence of literary fiction, look no further. "In August 1944 the historic walled city of Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast of Brittany, France was almost destroyed by fire....Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remai...

This is a carefully constructed book that's bound to captivate a large audience, become hugely popular, and garner many glowing reviews. It was chosen by Goodreads members as the best historical fiction of 2014 and shortlisted for the National Book Award. There are many reasons for its success, but they're also the reasons why I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. Anthony Doerr's *All the Light We Cannot See* follows the parallel lives of two protagonists: Marie-Laure, a French girl and...

Why write a review when I'm such an atypical reader? I feel most readers won't react the way I did, but isn’t it important that all views are voiced, especially in a book review? All readers will likely agree that the constant flipping between different time periods makes "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr more confusing. I need to say this loud and clear: the current fascination with multiple threads and time shifts is only acceptable when it adds something to the story, when it *i...

I've always believed, or maybe just imagined, that invisible lines trail behind us, tracing our paths through life, pulsing with electric energy. Lines that sometimes intersect, run parallel without ever touching, or meet briefly before diverging. A universe of lines crisscrossing the void.Anthony Doerr's breathtaking novel, "All the Light We Cannot See," charts the intricate journeys of two such invisible lines through the lives of Werner Pfennig, an orphaned boy in pre-World War II Germany, an...

\"Don’t you want to be alive before you die?\" We follow two storylines - one set in Germany focused on Werner Pfennig, an orphan, who's always dreamed of an education. He finally gets an opportunity, through the brutal tutelage of the Nazis.And we follow Marie-Laure, a French blind girl much beloved by her father, a locksmith of the Museum of Natural History. She and her father flee occupied France to live with a reclusive uncle. \"But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my ...