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iaietta
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4.5/5 ⭐️
Attaccata alle pagine dall'inizio alla fine anche con questo libro, e d'altronde come tutti i libri di Dicker che ho letto
Un giallo avvincente che mi ha anche regalato un'appassionante storia d'amore

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StayCurious
Voting Day | Clare O'Dea
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It‘s time to vote for our first read of 2025 for #LittensLoveRomance - https://forms.gle/6eks88oWhRoGsnZt8 As always, let me know if you want to be added or removed from the main tag list.

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Blueberry
The Unfinished Angel | Sharon Creech
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🪽😇❤️ 4w
Eggs LOVE Creech💞 4w
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Amor4Libros
The Illiterate | Agota Kristof, Nina Bogin
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Pickpick

After seeing a review of her trilogy of novels recently, I became curious about Kristóf‘s writing. I was not able to find the novels at my library but found her memoir.

This is a very short read, but spoke to me in so many levels. In this book, and through short vignettes, she talks about what it felt like to emigrate to Switzerland as a refugee, learning French and publishing all her work in a language she had to learn from scratch.

Loved!

Gleefulreader This sounds wonderful! Stacking! 1mo
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Jari-chan
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This is a small, but difficult book. It remembered me a lot of Annie Ernaux. We go back to the 1960ties, a boarding school in a small Swiss village. The young narrator and her passion for the new girl at school. It's a narrow and tight world and that's how this book feels. Told in a clear voice, I couldn't help but asking myself how much of this story might be autobiographical?

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ncsufoxes
Voting Day | Clare O'Dea
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Voted earlier….now the anxious wait. I‘m nauseously optimistic like so many of us. Pillows are from Sophie & Lili

kspenmoll Marvelous!!! 3mo
AmyG Yes. Nauseously optomistic. 🤞🏻💙 3mo
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StayCurious
Voting Day | Clare O'Dea
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#LittensLoveRomance It‘s time to vote for next month‘s read. You can vote here: https://forms.gle/gTCTDPh6YG7xoBK67 As always, let me know if you want to be removed from the main tag list, added to the main tag list, and suggestions for themes/tropes are always welcome.

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sakeriver
Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner
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I‘m not sure I could summarize what this book is about. It‘s kind of about love? And regret, I guess. But kind of neither? It‘s often funny in a dry, judgmental way. Very well-observed characters. Interesting but, for me, not exactly moving.

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sakeriver
Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner
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AnneCecilie
Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner
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Edith Hope has been sent to Hotel du Lac in Switzerland after an indiscretion to be out of view to her English friends. She sees it as an opportunity to do some work, she‘s an author.

At Hotel du Lac there‘s several other rich, English women. In a way this atmosphere reminded me of a Poirot crime without the crime.

Edith gets to know the other women, and suddenly there‘s a man there, a Mr Neville

The view on unmarried women reminded me a

AnneCecilie a little of the women in a Prym novel, only they are happier in their lives than these women seemed to be. They also seemed to be judged more, even if this was written later. That‘s another thing, this book gives the feeling of being set in the 30s/ 40s, but color TV is mentioned and that came way later. #1984 #192025 @Librarybelle 4mo
Librarybelle On my to read list! 4mo
youneverarrived Love the cover 🩷 4mo
Ruthiella This is the only Brookner title I really liked. I don‘t think her protagonists are ever happy. I prefer the bemusement of Pym‘s novels. 4mo
squirrelbrain Gorgeous cover! 4mo
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