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The reader would have never crossed my mind if I havent seen the movie trailer starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. I usually like to read the books first before watching the movie because I want to make sure that the movie is good because of the drama AND because the director did a good job of keeping it relatable to the book. If I saw twilight before I read the book, I might have liked it. But i didn't. And THAT movie is horrible. So I wasn't making that mistake again!

The story takes us to post-WWII Germany and the main protagonist, 15 year old Michael Berg has an affair with a ex- nazi camp guard Hanna Schmitz (who is at least twice his age). After the lustful affair, she suddenly dissapears without saying goodbye. His next encounter with her happens to be years later as she is put on trial for war crimes during the Holocaust.

With that in mind, I always questioned Bernhard Schlink's reasonings for naming the book The Reader if it had to deal with justice and a lustful affair? But throughout the book, it was no doubt that reading became an essential piece of the whole trial. It was the glue that kept the affair bound even after all the sex. It was the hinderence that possibly cost Hanna her justice and her innocense, and it definitely was the barrier that she was not willing to climb over in order to maintain her pride and dignity. Not that assisting in war crimes is prideful.

If you want to know how the book all falls into place, I would definitely suggest that you read the book. And go see the movie after because Kate Winslet won the Best Actress Nod (finally! lmao).