The Woman on the Stairs

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

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Yesterday‘s scores from the Little Red St Library. Big step daughter is a teen now & starting to be interested in 📚 with ❤️ in them. Yesterday she watched Twilight for the 1st time. She‘s hooked. I just wish she read the 📕 1st. She‘s also taking forensic science next yr. so picked out the CSI 📖. We had a girl‘s night, without their daddy, last night, which they loved. I let them stay up late as they assured me they would sleep in. They didn‘t!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Too cute!! ❤️ 3y

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CarolynM

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

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I really disliked this. It had an interesting premise but I never found any of it believable. I would have bailed if I hadn't been reading it for #LMPBC. Sorry #GroupZ

#BookReport Cricket watching and travelling has eaten into my reading time this week so I've only read this and the first 124 pages of The Most Fun We Ever Had (much more enjoyable)

#WeeklyForecast Finish The Most... and then, hmmm, not sure actually🤔 Something light I think.

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Cinfhen How‘s

The Most Fun We Ever Had

LeeRHarry Different books for different folks ? Mmm that nearly rhymes 😏 I am flying through your pick for our group 💕 5y

CarolynM @Cinfhen I like it a lot. It is very believable, which is quite a contrast with The Woman on the Stairs! 5y

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Cinfhen Good to know 😊👍🏻 5y

CarolynM @LeeRHarry Indeed. I'll be interested to see what you think of it. Hope "flying through" means you're enjoying it 5y

Joanne1 Thanks for the tip @CarolynM I won‘t bother with that one then. 5y

thegreensofa Now I‘m intrigued..You were good not to bail I know how hard it is! Katerina nearly killed me!! 5y

CarolynM @Joanne1 Good call🙂 5y

CarolynM @thegreensofa I think it's good for me to read books I don't like sometimes - it's one of the things book groups are for🙂 5y

Freespirit Carolyn I hope you are no where near the fires. Hope your escaping the heat xxx 5y

CarolynM @Freespirit Thanks for thinking of me 😘 We are quite some way from the fires. Spent the day inside with the air con on. Thankfully the cool change has arrived now. 5y

CarolynM @LeeRHarry I put this in the post to you this afternoon 🙂 5y

LeeRHarry @CarolynM Thanks 😊 5y

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CarolynM

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

Just picked this one up, thank you Alissa. This one looks interesting. Ready to get started very soon. #LMPBC #GroupZ

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Crazeedi Sounds good! 5y

Cathythoughts It Does sounds good 👍🏻❤️ 5y

Rissreadswithcats That cover is gorgeous and the book sounds interesting. I've never heard of it before. 5y

Lcsmcat Interesting premise. I read The Reader years ago and remember liking it. I might have to try this one. 5y

Freespirit I have this in my pile to read. I‘ll be interested to hear your thoughts! 5y

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MrsBibliophile

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

bailed

I hated this book so much... I found it at a book sale, benefiting a local animal rescue. The cover and intro seemed promising. NO! It had a very slow start, a less than pleasing climax, ending very poorly. It didn't feel finished either. Which, I'm shocked I got to the end.

Don't waste your time

CarolynM Agreed. It was really bad☹️ 5y

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Agnetta

Die Frau auf der Treppe | Bernhard Schlink

I bought a second hand book for almost no money...and when when I open it after few weeks I find it to be a signed copy ! Oh joy!

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Hooked_on_books

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

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Soooo disappointed in this one. I loved The Reader and am perfectly happy with simple writing, but there really didn‘t seem to be any point to this. Three men are obsessed with a woman who was the muse to one of them, producing a famous painting. This is the fragmented but potentially promising start, but then it hops around with no real purpose.

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MadCatRamble

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

so-so

I can't say that I enjoyed this book, even though I couldn't seem to put it down. The prose is beautiful and I appreciated the complexity of the narrator's memories and emotional landscape, but, ultimately, the whole thing felt a bit self-indulgent. Not awful, just kind of pointless.

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Alena

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

so-so

I'm not quite sure what to make of this book. It was such an awkward start, with a young attorney involved in a ludicrous contract, falling immediately in love with a mysterious women. I had a very hard time buying into the storyline and never particularly liked the protagonist. But there's something compelling about Schlink's simple and direct writing. I finished this in two sittings. This book finished stronger than it began.

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sightlined

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

Schlink makes me paranoid. Another book about making sense of the past, untangling threads, confronting your own failings. Is that what's in store? Am I just going to be one big stew of regret and late-onset guilt when I'm in the nursing home??

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GatheringBooks

The Woman on the Stairs | Bernhard Schlink

Free Books that came in the mail today. After The Reader, I am excited to read another Schlink novel. GatheringBooks always. Thanks to Pansing, my favourite book distributor.

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