All But My Life: Blog 1

When I opened this book to begin reading I wasn't sure of how interesting this book would be, but when i read the first line, "There is a watch lying on the green carpet of the living room of my childhood", i was instantly drawn into her life. I felt like Gerda brought me into what she was going through, as if i was observing this from above her. I have a since of connection to Gerda by the way she describes what is happening to her at this point and I want to take the pain and suffering away from her. No girl at that age, or any age, should go through the horrendous and treacherous acts that were taking place in her life. The thing that touched me the most in the book was the letter Gerda received from Erika. As i read this letter i held my breath because i was shocked and enveloped at what she was saying. "We found my mother. She was all bloody. We did not find my little brother. I found Henek, the one i loved more than life, who was to be my husband." This one sentence out of the entire note stood out to me. It seeped into my heart and made me wanted to reach into the book and hug Gerda and Erika. That seemed, to me, like a major turning point in the book to were Gerda knows she may be heading to.