Arden Dimick Library is open again and it is BEAUTIFUL. If you don’t have a copy of All The Light We Cannot See, our book club selection for June, just request one at the circulation desk.We will be meeting on June 25, 2016 at 10:30AM!
All The Light We Cannot See tells two stories (set in WWII) that seem inextricably connected even though the characters only meet briefly. Marie is a blind French girl who lives in Paris and, later, in the besieged town of St. Malo. Werner is a young German soldier who specializes in radio equipment and in locating radio signals. The novel is notable less for it’s plot and more for its use of lovely language to describe difficult times and the characters’ internal states:
What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models… None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.
The book was a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. One of the things I noticed, though, is that every review has a different, “The book was great but…” Did you like the book? Did you have a “The book was great, but…” reaction?
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Thank you, Carrie, for keeping me updated about the book club in Sacramento while I’m in NW GA. I’d love to read the current selection so I’ve put a hold on it from the Pines Library system and will be reading along with you, from a distance in the light we cannot see!