So, as many of you who frequent book blogs may know, most things written about books come after the blogger has read the book. Reviews are written after a book has been read, and often themed pieces are written again after a book is read. On the occasion that things are written about a book before it's finished usually it's before the book has even been started. So what's missing in this equation? The middle of the book!
I've decided to do a feature every Wednesday (since Wednesday is halfway through the week) on this very subject. I'm going to write a post on whatever book I'm halfway, or around halfway through. It'll pretty much be the same as a review, but instead of finalized remarks, it'll include things such as what I think of the book so far and predictions that I can reference to when I do review the book.
This weeks book is......(drumroll please)...The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak!
I'm currently reading this book for freshman English, and am around 160 pages in. For those of you that don't know, The Book Thief is a pretty famous book. It was published in 2006 and was on the NY Times bestsellers list for over 190 weeks. It's a tale about Nazi Germany, told through the perspective of death. highly symbolic and serious, hence the reason I have to read it for English.
So far, it's a good book, even though I have to annotate it. And now, a word from our sponsor: Mia's UNBELIEVABLE hatred of annotating. I hate annotating. And it's not even one of those things that I hate without reason, I have a very compelling argument of why annotating is stupid!! What happened to letting yourself be engrossed in a book? When you have to annotate, take down quotes and figurative language that you find interesting, it's like taking yourself out of the story. You go from the streets of 1940's Germany to your English classroom. And you, or at least I do, tend to subconsciously annotate, which is the great part of it! It's subconscious! You get to be engrossed in the story, but still be an active reader. Why mess with that perfect balance? Anyways, that's all.
The Book Thief is interesting. I like how it tells the story of WWII from the point of view of a German child who is in the Hitler Youth, instead of the usual Jewish family.
I'm not that far into the book, but I already have this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I just know something bad is going to happen. I just have this feeling that something is going to go terribly wrong. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet, but I'm having a feeling that it'll be either one giant catastrophic event, or a landslide of pain and misery, one event after another.
That's all I have for now, but I promise that in future weeks this feature will start to gain it's bearing. I'll be doing this every Wednesday, so see you next week! What book are you halfway through?
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