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Mister Memory: A Novel
Mister Memory: A Novel | Marcus Sedgwick
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In Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, a man with a perfect memory murders his wife. A dazzling psychological puzzle that reveals the strange connection between memory and fate. In Paris in the year 1899, Marcel Desprs is arrested for the murder of his wife and transferred to the famous Salpetriere Asylum. And there the story might have stopped. But the doctor assigned to his care soon realizes this is no ordinary patient: Marcel Desprs, Mister Memory, is a man who cannot forget. And the policeman assigned to his case soon realizes that something else is at stake: For why else would the criminal have been hurried off to hospital, and why are his superiors so keen for the whole affair to be closed? This crime involves something bigger and stranger than a lovers' fight, something with links to the highest and lowest establishments in France. The policeman and the doctor between them must unravel the mysterybut the answers lie inside Marcel's head. And how can he tell what is significant when he remembers every detail of every moment of his entire life? For fans of Scarlett Thomas, Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Patrick Suskind, this is a captivating literary mystery about memory, history and fate.
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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I should really get to this one! I bought it based on how beautiful the cover is! 💚💛❤️💙

#IForgotDay
#JulyJam

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick They liking this to Carlos Ruiz Zafon and there's a skull on the cover?! I am stacking this! 🤗 2y
Eggs It is beautiful and it sounds good!! 2y
AllDebooks Oh yes, stacked 🙌 2y
AmandaBlaze I love Sedgwick! A librarian introduced me to him, and I‘ve been reading him ever since. I haven‘t read this one yet. 2y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Have I read it? No not yet, but maybe soon! I do love the cover!!

#CuriousCovers
#Multicolored
#CoverLove

Tamra Stacked! Blurb mentions Suskind. 😃 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Tamra 🙌🏻📚❤️ 3y
Eggs Vibrant 👏🏻📚❤️ 3y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#Memories
#BoundTogetherJune

#TBR # CoverLover ❤️🧡💛💚💜

OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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I love this #Colorful cover !! It‘s one of my favorite covers!!

❤️💗💚💜💙

#BloomingBibliophiles

BookmarkTavern I don‘t know what this book is about, but I know that I need that cover in my life! 😍😍😍 5y
BiblioLitten Neat!! 😍 5y
Cuilin @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks beautiful cover. That‘s a book one would purchase for the cover regardless of the content. 💕 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Cuilin @ozma.of.oz that‘s the only reason I bought it!! I need to read it!! 5y
OriginalCyn620 Very cool! 5y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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I still haven‘t read this book!! Someone needs to #remind me!! I‘m in love with the cover!!

#SpringIntoReading

thereadingowlvina I loved this one! Great read 😁 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @thereadingowlvina really?! Awesome! You‘re the first person I‘ve seen to read it ❤️❤️ 6y
thereadingowlvina @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Ha cool! I remembered this was a pretty twisty story. I hope you enjoy it. Oh no, now I feel like re-reading this book! 😁 6y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @thereadingowlvina I‘m going to move it up!! 6y
greenhairdontcare I just added it to my stack because of the cover. 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @greenhairdontcare that‘s the reason I bought it!! 🤣🤣 6y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#DoYouRemember
#LiteraryLuck

On my tbr shelf!! Love the cover 💚💛💗 💀

Jee_HookedOnBookz 😍😍😍 Cover + Story = Stack!!! 😅 6y
Mdargusch Very cool. ☠️ 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Jee_HookedOnBookz I wish I had time to read it!!! 🤣🤣🤣 6y
Jee_HookedOnBookz @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks lol I have no idea how bad my TBR is at the moment lol 6y
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Newfoundlilac
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Third book of 2019!!

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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I love this cover and wish I had time to read this one!!

#Memories
#Fallintoreading

Avanders Sold! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Avanders it‘s so beautiful!! I wish I could get paid to sit at home and read!!!! 6y
Avanders @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I know that would be amazing.. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 6y
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thereadingowlvina I enjoyed this book! 😊 6y
Jee_HookedOnBookz Love the cover! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @thereadingowlvina yay!!! So happy to know it is good! 6y
vkois88 Oh, that's gorgeous 😍😍 I'd sit and look at it all day! 😂 6y
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rjsthumbelina
Mister Memory: A Novel | Marcus Sedgwick

@Kappadeemom @Endowarrior21 @JanJan I am having trouble choosing which book to read to send off to y'all for #LMPBC round 3! Which would you most like to read: The Iron Cast by Destiny Soria, Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson, A Million Junes by Emily Henry, World of Ink and Shadow by Lena Coakley, or Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick? I think I am leaning toward the tagged book, but I can be swayed if anyone has a preference for sure!

MrsGagnonreads2024 World of Ink and Shadow and A Million Junes I have already read and loved them. Of the other The Iron Cast sounds interesting. 6y
rjsthumbelina @Endowarrior21 Lol! We must have pretty similar tastes. I read all over the place, but I have been missing YA fantasy, so I thought this would be a good excuse to jump back into it 6y
MrsGagnonreads2024 @rjsthumbelina I love YA in general 😁 6y
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rjsthumbelina @Endowarrior21 have you read onyx and ivory? Thinking of changing to that one, but don't want to pick something you have read! 6y
MrsGagnonreads2024 @rjsthumbelina I have not read it 😁 6y
rjsthumbelina @Endowarrior21 I'll probably start reading it tonight! 6y
rjsthumbelina @Endowarrior21 nevermind! Done in by the fact that it has almost 500 pages...sad day. Oh well, back to The Iron Cast! It does sound interesting, just wasn't quite what I was in the mood for. I'll give it a shot! 6y
MrsGagnonreads2024 @rjsthumbelina okay I just finished This Our Story it was very good 6y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Congratulations @ErinSueG on your Litsy milestone!!!
This is one of the coolest book covers I have. I hope the book is as good as the book cover!!

#2kgiveaway

JoScho Very cool cover! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @JoScho I bought it for the #coverlove 🤣🤣 6y
Lmstraubie I love the lighting 💡 6y
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Hollie @Lmstraubie me too! 😍 6y
Erinsuereads Oh this is fantastic! I love the colors! Thanks for entering! 6y
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Decalino
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In this unusual police procedural set in 19th century Paris, Marcel Despres, a cabaret performer known as Mister Memory, is confined to an asylum after murdering his wife. The detective on the case and the doctor in charge of Marcel's care each make discoveries that change their understanding of Marcel and the crime. This twisting tale explores corruption and sordid secrets, yet is most urgently concerned with how our memories create our identity.

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#CoverLove

#ReadingResolutions

I LOVE this cover and can‘t wait to read this!!

Jabberwocky So pretty!! 6y
BiblioLitten Very pretty cover! 6y
LibrarianRyan Such a great cover. His books usually are. 6y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @BiblioLitten main reason I had to have it!! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @LibrarianRyan I‘ve never read anything by him!!! 6y
LibrarianRyan @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks he's good. Sometiems strange, sometimes scary but always good. 6y
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rjsthumbelina
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Reason number 507, roughly, to work part-time at #BN : employee appreciation and #ARCs ! I got all of these books for $32, brand new! Included are: Mister Memory, Behind Closed Doors, All Is Not Forgotten, Victoria, We Were the Lucky Ones, and The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder. Anybody got any favorites among these?

Megabooks 👍🏻👍🏻🎉 6y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#colorfulcover
#ReadingResolutions

I LOVE this book cover!!! Can‘t wait to read it!!

Tiyas7 Loved the Description!!! Please Post A Review After Reading. 7y
mrp27 I haven't read this title but I've read his others, such a great writer! 7y
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britt_brooke Love the cover! 7y
ladym30 Love the photo! 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @britt_brooke isn‘t it awesome?! 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @mrp27 I can‘t wait! 7y
BookaholicNatty Marcus Sedgwick!!!! One of the book clubs I‘m in suggested Saint Death by Him. Have you read anything else by him? 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @BookaholicNatty no this will be my first! 7y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Congratulations @laurenashley on your Litsy milestone!!!! 🎉🎊📚👏🏻🙌🏻 This is such an awesome community!!!

4books on my tbr list are Mister Memory, The Masterpiece, We Were the Lucky Ones, and White Houses!

Thank you for the chance to win!!

#4444giveaway

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#Memory
#ReadingResolutions

I really want to read this one!!! Has anyone read it?

And the cover is gorgeous!!!! 💚❤️💗

LazyDays No, but I love the cover! 7y
MidnightBookGirl That cover is awesome! 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @LazyDays @MidnightBookGirl I want it just for that!!! 🤣🤣 7y
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GripLitGrl Haven't read it but that cover😍😍 7y
ju.ca.no That cover😍 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @GripLitGrl @ju.ca.no I have to own it!!! Lol 7y
ju.ca.no @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I just added it to my TBR wishlist, merely because of the cover😅 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @ju.ca.no 🤣🤣 7y
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thereadingowlvina
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[March05] This book is a combination of crime + mystery + psychological thriller and I really enjoyed it. Marcel Després or Marcel Mémoire (Mister Memory) do not forget & has the perfect memory. But he is unable to filter what is important or relevant & when he was arrested and transfered to Salpêtrière asylum for the murder of his wife, his eidetic memory was not helpful.

#MarchMadness #standalonecrimenovel @josteele

RaimeyGallant This sounds so interesting! 7y
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thereadingowlvina
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A heartpounding mystery/psychological thriller about Marcel Després (Mister Memory) who never forgets. He has the perfect memory. But it is rendered hopeless by his inability to filter what is important/relevant especially when he was arrested & transfered to Salpêtrière asylum for the murder of his wife. A must read!
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#historicalcrimefiction #goodread #thriller

RadicalReader @thereadingowlvina what a truly original sounding book 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m stacking it because it sounds awesome and the cover is AMAZING 💀❤️📚 7y
thereadingowlvina @RadicalReader Yes, it is so different from other books I read. Perfect memory? I want that! 😊 7y
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thereadingowlvina @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I enjoyed this book a lot! And yes, the cover is soooo beautiful 😉 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks And your picture is also beautiful ❤️❤️ 7y
thereadingowlvina @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you so much! Appreciate it ❤ 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You‘re welcome!!! 7y
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When we stop loving, it becomes impossible to go on. Whatever the object of our love was, a person, an idea, a career, when the love vanishes, so does the desire to continue. To do so from that point is to move like a mindless machine, because it is what we are made to do, not because it is what we want to be.
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#marcussedgwick #marvelousread #2018read #quotesfrombooks

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Dwayne_Shugert
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Really good book so far...

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night_shift
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"There is both good and bad, and the chances of survival of our hero often depend upon how well he, or she, sees which is which, for what can seem beautiful can hide the greatest evil."

So far, not 100% feeling this, but I'll give it three chapters..

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night_shift
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Can I just say how gorgeous this cover is?? Can I also say I judged it by that?? 😅😅 Hopefully I like it, but I'm getting mixed reviews. Why does that author name sounds familiar to me though?

TrishB My daughter read his Raven mystery books years ago. 8y
vivastory I ♥ this cover 8y
night_shift @TrishB never heard of that one! @vivastory YES! So pretty :) 8y
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mwgerard
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In fin de siecle Paris, Marcel Després finds meaning in his unusually perfect memory. He becomes an act in a cabaret, displaying his strange skill for the elite who dare to carouse in Montmartre by night.

Full review: http://mwgerard.com/books-for-march-17

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NeeSwee
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I just got a galley of this and cannot wait to start it. And oh, THAT COVER!!! 😍#edelweiss

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SophieAndTheTiger
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First person to review on good reads! This has never happened before no matter how new the proof! Well, what an amazing read - had me with my nose in it my entire commute - didn't even put it down for platform changes.

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SophieAndTheTiger
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Next super pretty book selected from the to-read pile #bookcoverlove #amreading

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