"If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice." (79) When she was a little girl, her grandfather gave her a bracelet which symbolised his love for her. It was too big to wear, it was not comfortable. It was made this way because of what symbolised: a huge love....

"[...] sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living." (113) Oskar's grandfather finds it difficult to live. How come? Well, it is true that nobody has experience in living when they are born and many of us may wonder whether or not we are doing it...

Still not being able to sleep, I decided to make some research on Jonathan Safran Foer. The new YouTube feature of playing a related video when the one you were watching ends brought me to a documentary on the phone calls from the towers in what Oskar, of course, calls "the worst day". I was so...

It's 1AM and I can't sleep. I keep thinking over and over again... What would it be like to be a nine-year-old who has just lost his dad because of a terrorist attack? What if I found something that I thought would get me closer to a lost beloved and... In the end it doesn't? What a...