Log 2/15/2012

The Book Thief 
Markus Zusak
Mature Teen Fiction Pg 3-550

My favorite character in The Book Thief is Rudy. I like Rudy because he is really funny and nice to Liesel. He doesn't complain much when Liesel steals a book from the mayor's wife's library instead of food. I also like Liesel because she likes reading like me. She steals books that are laying on the floor and no one wants it. She is also a nice person. She loves her foster parents and treats them nicely. She is also good at keeping her foster parents' secrets even though she really want to tell Rudy. I wish Zusak didn't made the story go in a sad way. He wrote about the death of Rudy and Liesel's foster parents and almost everyone on Himmel Street was dead in the bombing except for Liesel because she was sleeping in the basement.

I read about a girl named Liesel. Warner and Liesel was on a train to their foster parents who lived far away. Her brother Warner was really sick and he died in his sleep. She was really sad and cried because she didn't want to be alone. After her brother's funeral (which wasn't really a funeral because it was winter), the gravedigger dropped his book and Liesel picked it up. Even though she couldn't read, she kept the book as part of her brother and mother. After she went to live with her foster parents, she had nightmares and one night she peed in her bed, her father found the book because it was hidden under the mattress and read it to her. She started stealing books and reading them after she got to know how to read. Her friend Rudy liked her and whenever he helped her with something, he always asked for a kiss, but she wouldn't kiss him. A couple of months later, they helped save a Jew called Max. Max was really nice to Liesel. On her birthday, Max didn't have anything for her, but Liesel didn't mind and gave him a hug instead. So he started working on a book called The Standover Man, it was a book about him and Liesel was really happy. When her father gave a piece of bread to a Jew, her father was sent to work with some people and Max went away just in case, soldiers came to check their home. After two years living with her parents, their was a bombing in Himmel Street, Liesel was asleep in the basement because she was writing a book about herself and almost everyone in Himmel Street got bombed. Her foster parents were dead even Rudy, her crush. She cried so much and kiss him on the lips.