# All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr (2014)

**Verdict:** Stayed with me — It lodged, whether or not you'd inflict it on a friend.

**Who I'd hand it to:** People who like clever stories

_ebook · finished 2026-06-30_

## Fingerprint

Positions between two named poles. Neither pole is the good end.

- Place: far toward "the place is the book"
- Moral weight: toward "pressing a case"
- Cleverness: far toward "the form does the work"
- Lift: toward "left me heavier"
- Friction: far toward "reads itself"

## How it read

How much I wanted to keep reading, at each stage.

- Beginning: eager
- Middle: eager
- End: eager
- Afterwards: held (stayed where it landed)

## Review

The story was good, What I loved though was this. One of the characters is blind, and whenever she was the character, there was no visual descriptors, it was all of the other senses and that is when the author had me. I was like, DAY-UMMMM,  well played author.

Tags: Disabilities, epic journey, Europe, WW2

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