oh 
 my 
 gosh 
 what the heck happened? 
 so in the cover of the book, The New York Times says " Brilliant and hugely ambitious.... It's the kind of book that can be LIFE CHANGING" 
 i made a shelf just for this book labelled as "life-changing" because honestly, it was really life changing. 
 550 pages of words from the mouth of death written by 14 year old liesel meminger was worth it. i'm proud to read liesel's story, because honestly, she had a better adeventure than me. 
 so what i understood from the book: hitler's time, nazi germany. liesel writes down her life called the book thief because she has stolen books, her first stealing after her mother and her buried her brother. liesel's mom abandoned her, and she now lives with a man who plays the accordion and a woman who swears a lot. she begins to have a close relationship with a boy whose hair is the color of lemons, and a jew who is hiding under the basement. liesel's story is narrated by death. it is split into ten parts and the titles come from the book titles she read/stolen. 
 i love all of the characters. you cannot hate anyone in the book. i love the figures of speech. i love that there was a different story to tell in each chapter/part. i loved the ending, the sad, sad ending. 
 what else can i say? the book was life-changing in different ways. i guess it's kind of embarrassing to answer why because well... 
 anyways, this book is perfection. this needs to be a movie, i ll cry rivers.