I am the Messenger, Markus Zusak (3.5)
The group was surprisingly unanimous in our review of this month’s book club book. Everyone enjoyed the majority of the book – except for a paragraph at the very end. The story follows a young slacker taxi driver who is just sleep-walking through his life. After inadvertently becoming a bit of a hero in a local bank robbery, he starts getting anonymous playing cards in the mail. Each card has a number of clues which end up being information regarding people he is supposed to ‘help’. He must determine who and how to help for each one. Each situation is very different and there are many touching moments in these vignettes. The book is worth reading for the cleverness and heart in these stories. Since this book was written before ‘The Book Thief’, and the author was still honing his craft, we decided to forgive Mr. Zusak for the paragraph that did not make sense… though we still may have to write him to see what he was thinking, drinking, etc. ?!?!
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