Ya'll. This time change has our house all messed up. Dawson was sleeping better, but he is so off his schedule. Mama is tired. Daddy can't remember to take his medicine. We are all out of sorts. I wish we could be like Arizona and not switch. That would be nice. I started grad school today! It is more intimidating than it actually is. Looking at the assignments, it isn't as much as I thought it would be. Fingers crossed I do well. I am thinking about free writing on my blog. I need to get my brain flowing again. I haven't worked on my novel very much lately and I need to just get the creative juices pumping. Would ya'll be interested in reading that? The posts wouldn't be geared towards anything, just any time I get a creative thought I would jot it down. I think I'm going to do it.
I just recently finished "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I had no idea what this novel was going to be about going into it; all I knew was that our 10th grade English class study it. Right off the bat I noticed that our narrator was not your average Joe. The narrator is death. When I realized this I said to myself, "Oh this is going to be good." The novel is all about the Holocaust and it is shown from a German point of view. Leisel Meminger's mother gives her away to a foster German family. On the trip to this new family, Leisel's brother dies. So right from the start death is there. I'm not going to give you a synopsis of it, because I think you should read it for yourself. Just know that a German family hides a Jew in their basement for a while, and death is around every corner. That last line of the novel really got me though..."I am haunted by humans."
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