Journal Entry 1 by seethroughfaith from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Saturday, June 19, 2010

Originally published in Switzerland and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading and shame in post-war Germany.

Amazing film. Now I've got the book to re-read. 

Journal Entry 2 by seethroughfaith at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Saturday, January 01, 2011

*For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Berhard Schlink's The Reader

I can only concur. This is a fab book. It's also a beautiful movie - almost more shocking in that than in the novel, and usually I prefer books to films, but in this case I'm not so sure. Both are marvellous 

Journal Entry 3 by seethroughfaith at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Saturday, March 19, 2011

re-read this. It's a wonderful book. I somehow think that it works better as a movie though (really unusual for me) because if you ARE a reader - like me - I think the shock about Hanna doesn't carry as much impact if you READ it.

I really like what the Sunday Telegraph had to say about this novel

"Deeply moving, sensitive enough to make me wince, a Holocaust novel, but light years away from the common run"