TBR: All The Light I Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Each month I will try (emphasis on try) to read one book and review it for you guys. This month it will be "All the Light I Cannot" by Anthony Doerr. Way back in 2014 I heard rave reviews about this book so I immediately went out and bought, but its been sitting on my bookshelf ever since. Just to give you an outline about this book, its a historical fiction based on World War II, it's told from two perspectives; one from Marie Laure who lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris in June of 1940, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. The other perspective is from a German orphan boy named Werner who becomes obsessed with a radio when was a kid and now is a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure’s. By October 19 I hopfully will have a review on this book but don't kill me if I don't. :)

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