The Messenger

my god, that's hard.

I well, if I'm if I'm not going genre-based, like not necessarily anything that I write, but probably my favorite all-time standalone book is called I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak.

And it's not like his most well-known book.

His best-known book is The Book Thief, which is like movie and all that thing.

There's nothing like special about them.

And then there's just this beauty in having a character like that.

in this particular book I Am the Messenger is just this underage cab driver who kind of there's a bungled bank robbery in the very first chapter and then he just kind of gets set on this course and I just his writing is super poetic while still being very simple and I find that that's really fueled like how I've grown as a writer myself because that's the That's my favorite writing when you can kind of be exposed like that and vulnerable, but being incredibly easy to like take in.

There's no like gatekeeping with the language, if that makes sense, and the poetry of it.

Markus Zusak is an Australian-German writer.

He's best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger.

The Guardian newspaper interviewed him.

and asked, what made you want to write when you were starting out? And Mark Azuzak replied, I wanted to be a writer when I was 16 and read the right books for me.