The Book Quill

The Book Thief is one of those heart warming stories that will make you deeply smile and cry. It will keep you hooked to the pages as you intertwine with each and every character’s sorrow, guilt, love, affection and personalities. The book is a historical drama based in the Nazi Germany. The author’s use of words, analogies and his easy description of events will hook you to the book instantly. Liesel Meminger, and her brother are taken to a poor foster family as her mother is unable to take care of them anymore. On the way, her little brother dies and this incident is imprinted in the little child’s memory forever. She is handed over to the Hubbermans, an old couple with a big heart. Liesel is unable to sleep at nights and is constantly woken up every night by her brother’s dead face. The night her brother is buried, she steals a grave digging book, her first thievery from the more to come. She keeps it hidden at all times, but Papa (Mr Hubbermann) finds it. As she is not a good ...

The pain of losing a spouse is tormenting and soul-crushing. It must feel like the whole world coming down on you. To be left alone in the middle of the road with nowhere to go. Rachel Watson stands on the same crossroads. After going through a harsh divorce, losing your husband to another woman and becoming an alcoholic, all she does is breathing like a living corpse. Every morning she wakes up drunk and sleeps likewise. She never has a sense of space and time, and is so lost in her grief that she is unable to pull herself into reality. She boards the train to London everyday to go to an imaginary job that she was fired from months ago to make her renter/best friend think that she is at least working. Riding senselessly, across the vast stretching lands day in and day out , she keeps noticing a particular house every day. A joyful couple resides in that house as she sees them on the terrace, embracing hugging and kissing on different occasions. She feels the coldness sinking in as s...