Under the Skin

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.” So, I am hoping to do an update in each major blog project these week.  Even the blog projects that you were sure I had forgotten about.  I shall begin this goal with a book review.  Because that really is a major, major blog project. I read this book at the recommendation of a friend, Johanna.  Marie-Laure is a blind French girl who lives with her father in Paris in World War II.  Eventually, she and her father find their way to the Breton town of St. Malo, where Marie-Laure and her father may have been entrusted with a valuable and dangerous jewel.  Meanwhile, orphan Werner is growing up in a mining town in Germany.  When he and his sister find a broken-down radio, Werner's mind flourishes learning about, building and fixing radios.  His talent with mechanics and electronics earns him a position in a austere Hitler Youth Academy.  Towards the end of the ...

As is tradition, I have to include a list of all the books that were read in a year and their respective star ratings. So...here you go for 2015. Be careful.  The titles link you to the Goodreads page.  Because I am MUCH too lazy to remove them all.  I'm sorry. Reposted to resolve fairly significant formatting issues.   And star ratings are on the right. 1 Prince of Shadows 4 2 The Silver Bowl (Silver Bowl, #1) 3 3 The Kneebone Boy 5 4 Crane (Five Ancestors, #4) 3 5 London, 1850 (Vampire Plagues, #1) 3 6 The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2) 4 7 Dracula 4 8 Eagle (Five Ancestors, #5) 3 9 Mexico, 1850 (Vampire Plagues, #3) 4 10 Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1...