I’ve had the book on order from the Library for quite awhile, but the movie arrived before the book. This is a beautiful story about a very ugly time in Germany’s history. Liesel is a young German girl who has been sent to live with a foster family; we never know for certain why (was her mother a Communist or Jewish?). She forms an immediate connection with her foster father, but finds her foster mother a little more difficult. She arrives not knowing how to read or write, but over the course of the movie her love for books grows. The narrator (God? Death?) ties up all the loose ends.