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Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel | Pascal Mercier

Recently back from Portugal, and rereading Night Train to Lisbon hits a little different.
What a beautiful (and bookish!) country! I can‘t wait to return! 🇵🇹📖

BookishMarginalia Lovely pic! And 😻😻😻 3w

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ShyBookOwl

The Sanatorium | Sarah Pearse

The first snowfall... perfect time for gothic thriller set in the alps ❄️ 🏔

all_4_kb I remember this book 1mo

ShyBookOwl @all_4_kb It was good! A little convoluted, but it all came together nicely! 1mo

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MeJeMiller

The Sanatorium | Sarah Pearse

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Did I ever hate this. I was yelling at Elin for how dumb she was continually. How did she get to be a detective? Too many not well done troupes. A lot of meh characters that probably could have been combined. The cliffhanger at the end almost helped. I listened to the end out of spite. Too many suspects. I just hated this.

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MeJeMiller

The Sanatorium | Sarah Pearse

Wait. There‘s a storm AND the killer has to be strong? Huh. How about that?

dabbe 🩵🩷🩵 2mo

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Graywacke

Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner

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A magnificent blending of Brookner complexity and the elevated language of the self-important.

Edith Hope goes to Switzerland to hide awhile after damaging her reputation with a scandal. She's an author of "romantic fiction", who hopes to get some writing done. Her hotel on the lake is half empty. She has landed in a cozy isolation. So, of course, she gets involved with the other guests. Fun stuff.

Graywacke When asked to sex up her books for the liberated women readers, Edith tells her editor that's not what they want. "...they prefer the old myths, when it comes to the crunch. They want to believe that they are going to be discovered, looking their best, behind closed doors, just when they thought all was lost, by a man who has battled across continents, abandoning whatever he may have had in his in-tray, to reclaim them." 2mo

Graywacke Edith thinks a lot about writing. In one fun line she thinks, "The sensation of being entertained by words was one she encountered all too rarely. People expect writers to entertain _them_, she reflected. They consider that writers should be gratified simply by performing their task to the audience's satisfaction. Like sycophants at court in the Middle Ages, dwarves, jongleurs. And what about _us_? Nobody thinks about entertaining _us_.” 2mo

AlaMich This sounds good! 2mo

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LeahBergen I adore this book! 2mo

Graywacke @AlaMich I was. And short. 😉 2mo

Graywacke @LeahBergen yay. It‘s a special book 2mo

dabbe 💛🐾🤎 2mo

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Graywacke

Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner

While reading a 950-page edition of Thomas Malory, and the 900-page Collect Stories of William Faulkner, and waiting for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (came yesterday!), I‘ve started this wonderful 1984 Booker winner.

sarahbarnes I loved this one - the first I read by her. 3mo

Graywacke @sarahbarnes this is only my second by under-appreciated Brookner. It‘s been fantastic, from page 1. 3mo

squirrelbrain I loved this one too! 3mo

Graywacke @squirrelbrain 💙 3mo

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sjc731

Eurotrash: Roman | Christian Kracht

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Voting Day | Clare O'Dea

repost for @TheSpineView:

Voting is now open to choose our June selection of the #LitsySciFiBookClub #LSFBC
Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list.

TheSpineView Thanks! 7mo

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StayCurious

Voting Day | Clare O'Dea

Hey #LittensLoveRomance, it‘s time to vote for June‘s read. Here is the link: https://forms.gle/ZrYdYuur7rZGrZVk8 as always, let me know if you want to be added or removed from my main tag list. Also, I‘d love to hear your ideas for future month themes!

StayCurious @mcctrish @Gissy @willaful @Read4life @OriginalCyn620 @KristiAhlers @Catsandbooks @LiseWorks @PageShifter @tdrosebud @TheAromaofBooks @CoverToCoverGirl @BethM 7mo

Kshakal I voted… can‘t wait! 😊 7mo

StayCurious @Kshakal @Pigpen_Reads @peanutnine @CarolynM @cupcake12 @audraelizabeth @julieclair @Graciouswarriorprincess @julesG @Sarahbookinterrupted @Light_of_Aether @CrowCAH @Sace @TheSpineView @maich @vonnie862 @BarkingMadRead @SkyGoddess1 @Bookbuyingaddict 7mo

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BarkingMadRead Ohhhhh I actually own one of these already 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 7mo

mcctrish I read The Wall of Winnipeg already and I really liked it. I voted for a different book 😢 7mo

OriginalCyn620 Voted! 7mo

OriginalCyn620 Off the top of my head, for themes, I thought of forbidden love, age gap, a secret royal, fish out of water, and grumpy/sunshine (might be especially fun if the FMC was the grump!). (edited) 7mo

TheSpineView Voted 7mo

Graciouswarriorlibrarian Voted! Thank you!😊 7mo

vonnie862 Voted! 7mo

vonnie862 I second @OriginalCyn620 on the themes. Others: second chances, marriage of convenience, disability rep, Latinx, Asian, POC... 7mo

CrowCAH Voted 🗳️ 7mo

julesG Voted. But I kind of want to read them all. 7mo

TheAromaofBooks Oh this is a fun theme!! Had to vote for the one that's already (unread) on my shelf 😂 7mo

Read4life Voted! 7mo

julieclair Voted! Some theme ideas: time travel, historical, tourist. 7mo

StayCurious @julieclair ooh time travel! Great idea 7mo

SarahBookInterrupted Voted! 7mo

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Jari-chan

Eurotrash: Roman | Christian Kracht

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Not the tagged book, I guess Kracht's newest book isn't in the database yet.

I was sceptical about this, because after all the years since his last book my views and tastes have changed. But only a few pages in I knew, this is my favourite novel by him so far.

Loved the magical realism and the two plot lines that interfuse more and more. Not everyone will enjoy that, but I love it.

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