Meadowbrook Lane ReadsALot

This book is CRAZY-sauce good.  Psychological thriller.  It’s really good the whole way through and keeps you super interested but …that ending.  Wowzers!  Now, I’m not very good in general at predicting what will happen next in books because I get so engrossed myself in the story—almost like one of the characters—rather than someone looking in on it from the outside…if that makes any sense, but I NEVER in a million years would have come up with how this one ends.  Another “highly recommend!”  I’d give it a solid 4.5….man, almost 5, for a thriller.    

The Book Thief (Marcus Zusak) Another very good WWII book. A bit different though than a lot of WWII books I’ve read as it is more from the perspective, or following the lives of, German people (who are NOT Hitler fans).  Really good story and also reminds the reader that not all German’s were drinking the Nazi KookAid ;). I thought that was important in the end because I personally always think Germany, WWII, bad….but really not all of the actual German citizens should be lumped together…I guess just like things here today! The first chapter or two were VERY difficult for me to get into though because the “narrator” of the book is unlike anything I’ve ever read before.  Once I kind of accepted that (I guess???), I loved the story and actually even the odd perspective and commentary of the narrator.  Even though it is all about Nazi Germany, I will say, it’s a much different vibe than The Nightingale, Winter Garden, All the Light We Cannot See, or any of the books that ta...