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mrp27
Heidi | Johanna Spyri.
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March #bookspin #childrensclassicread2024

Hard to believe I went this long in life without reading this gem. Such beautiful descriptions of nature, and a heartwarming tale that made me miss my grandparents. So glad I read it and so glad I purchased the book.

TheBookHippie ♥️ 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I LOVE this story so much!! 2mo
UwannaPublishme Yay! This one will stay with me too. 🙌🏻 1mo
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merelybookish
Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner
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It comes as no surprise to me that I loved this book! Especially since @leahbergen @vivastory @sarahbarnes @Centique @Cathythoughts all love it too. 😃
Brookner creates an uncomfortable, close world at an off-season Swiss hotel that caters to the just-so. It takes a while to understand why Edith has gone there to get away, and for her to figure out how she can leave with dignity. As in the best novels, nothing happens, everything happens. ❤️

merelybookish I love seeing different covers for novels. I really hate the bottom left. It's entirely too cheery for this book. 2mo
BarbaraBB Great these covers. I read this a long long time ago and think I had yet another one because I read one which my mother bought when she was young! 2mo
sarahbarnes Ah, glad you loved it, too! I had yet another cover from these as well! 2mo
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vivastory I'm so happy that you liked this one! I agree with you about the best novels,, too. I need to add Brookner to my reading plans for the year. That's a def miss with the cover design from Penguin. (edited) 2mo
Cathythoughts That‘s great you enjoyed it so much. You‘re making me feel like a reread … 👍🏻❤️ 2mo
batsy Definitely need to move this up the list! Fun seeing all these covers. 2mo
LeahBergen I‘m so glad you loved it, too! 👏 2mo
Centique I love your description that nothing happens and everything happens. I love books like that! 1mo
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Jari-chan
Durcheinandertal: Roman | Friedrich Drrenmatt
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TWs for this review, that's why I put it behind spoilers.

Usually, I love Dürrentmatt's humor and his social criticism. But this story didn't work for me. At all. Call me woke, but I hated the way this story deals with rape and the gaslighting. It might have worked when the story was written and I first tried to read it in historical context. Call me woke, but this book was just too much.

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UwannaPublishme
Heidi | Johanna Spyri.
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Thx so much @TheBookHippie for including Heidi in this month‘s #ChildrensClassicRead2024. I finally read this gem for the first time and loved it! 🙌🏻 I also watched the film version (on VHS!) with my Mom. Of course, the book is so much better, but the movie is perfectly cast with Shirley Temple as Heidi & it‘s quite amusing too. What a heartwarming adventure!
P.S. Count me in when we all move to the mountains and tend our goats!🐐
@Morr_Books

AmyG I loved Shirley Temple as Heidi. 2mo
kspenmoll Shirley Temple was amazing in all her roles. 2mo
TheBookHippie 💕💕💕💕I love the Shirley Temple Heidi!! 2mo
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mrp27 I‘m loving the book too! Savoring it because I don‘t want it to end. I‘ve lost my Shirley Temple vhs tapes in one of my moves. 2mo
UwannaPublishme @TheBookHippie @AmyG @kspenmoll I hadn‘t seen a Shirley Temple movie in ages. She really was amazing and so perfect in this role! 2mo
UwannaPublishme @mrp27 So happy to hear you‘re enjoying it too. If you still have a VHS player like me, I‘ll send you the movie. 😊 2mo
PurpleyPumpkin Glad you enjoyed this one! I really did too. And yes, looking forward to mountain living and tending our goats. It really did sound like a lovely pastime! Not like work at all!😅 2mo
mrp27 Ugh… I do wish I still had a VHS player. I used to. Only have a DVD player. But thank you, so kind! 2mo
UwannaPublishme @PurpleyPumpkin 😁 👍🏻 I‘m always up for an escape into nature where I can play with the animals and read! 2mo
UwannaPublishme @mrp27 I have to keep my player working as long as I can. It‘s too hard to part with my old VHS tapes.😁 2mo
Jari-chan You can come visit me - I live about 20 minutes from Maienfeld 😁 2mo
UwannaPublishme @Jari-chan Wow! How wonderful is that! I‘m sure it‘s as beautiful there as we imagine. Hope you have room for all of us…and our goats! 😁 2mo
Jari-chan @UwannaPublishme If the goats are very tiny we sure can find a spot 😁 🐐 2mo
UwannaPublishme @Jari-chan 😂😂😂 2mo
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merelybookish
Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner
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Monday morning. Would love to stay here with my cat and my book. (Which is so good so far!!)
Also, rarely do I read a book and feel my vocabulary is lacking. But Brookner! She has me looking up words constantly! 😅

intothehallofbooks This one sounds really good! I‘d never heard of it before. Thank you for your posts. I‘ve just put it on my reading list. 😊 2mo
mcctrish I think I have this on a TBR shelf somewhere 🤔 2mo
sarahbarnes I loved this one! I still want to get to another book of hers soon. 2mo
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Tamra That‘s one of the few times I appreciate my Kindle. 😆 2mo
LeahBergen This book is brilliant! ❤️ 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
Cathythoughts This book 👌🏻❤️ 2mo
Dragon 😻 2mo
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Morr_Books
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I enjoyed this book. I'm a little tempted to move to a Swiss village with the smell of fresh air, surrounded by flowers and goats and no technology. I'll be daydreaming about that while I'm stuck in front of my computer for too many hours tomorrow. #childrensclassicread2024 @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie I agree. I now want a goat. ♥️ 2mo
Pogue You need to read the sequels. They might be harder to find but there are two. 2mo
tpixie @Pogue yes! I think my ebook had both stories. One of my library books only had the 1st half, the other was like my ebook. 2mo
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Morr_Books
Heidi | Johanna Spyri.
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Took a mental health day on Friday and decided to read this book over my long weekend. This book has been on my kids' lit bookshelf for years, but I never read it. Watched the Shirley Temple movie a million times as a kid though. #ChildrensClassicRead2024
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TheBookHippie ♥️🐐👧🏼⛰️ 2mo
PurpleyPumpkin Right, the Shirley Temple movie! I forgot about that! 2mo
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