All The Light I Cannot See Analysis

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During the summer, I devour the books that I didn't have time to read during the school year. I'm hungry for the kind of "can't-put-it-down-stay-up-all-night" experience I so cherished as a child. I found that three times this summer: In "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi, and "Go Set a Watchman", Harper Lee's eagerly awaited second (but maybe first) novel about Scout all grown up.

The first, "All the Light I Cannot See", I slurped up in three night's, after waiting for much of the summer on the library's waiting list. I fell in love with the characters and delighted in not having read anything about it before reading, so it all was a surprise. It's a big old-fashioned novel, with complicated

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