Beautiful and completely compelling prose, but overall I found this to be kind of...boring? Seriously, Doerr deserves all of the accolades for his writing because it is gorgeous and the narrator was perfect for this book, but this wasn't my favorite WWII story. A book I'm glad to have read once, but I won't be visiting again.

My favorite quote is a simple one, and it is about living during WWII - "It was a hard time to be good."