David Stanley’s Reviews > The Book Thief > Status Update

A little tricky to get into, due to an unusual narrative. The semi-detached mater-of -fact seems to draw the readers imagination and sympathy in a way that 1st person narrator melodrama could not. A great quote: "after three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the Nan's gentleness, his thereness.