Reactions: WOW. Just stunning. Every sentence is pure art.
Novel by Anthony Doerr

I started this novel knowing nothing about it except that it was a Pulitzer Prize winner. Only a dozen pages in, I understood why it deserved that distinction. This novel is beautiful and flows so smoothly from chapter to chapter that I couldn’t put it down.

The story simultaneously follows Werner, a teenage boy in Germany, and Marie-Laure, a teenage girl in France during World War II. Each chapter is only one to three pages long and they alternate between the two characters. I feel like nothing I can say will do justice to just how remarkable and artistic this novel is.

I found myself finishing a chapter about Werner and being so consumed with knowing what happened to him next, that once I was finished with the sequential chapter about Marie-Laure, I simply had to read another another Werner, and then Marie-Laure, and so on. I’d sit down to read for a few minutes and a hundred pages would be gone before I knew it.

The interesting thing is, I’m not a big fan of stories set in World War II. But All the Things We Cannot See is different. It’s prose that flows like poetry. Every sentence, every paragraph, every chapter, is a pure delight.

As I was preparing to write this blog post, I was searching for an image to include above. It was only just then that I realized there’s a Netflix limited series based on the book. I guess I know what I’ll be watching this week!

Do yourself a favor and pick up this book. You will love it. I promise.