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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.

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.

Uncle seemed very pleased to hear that... I realized that this was the first time I'd talked about love with Uncle, and I think I remember that that April afternoon I was reading My Friends, by Emmanuel Bove, a book that tells the sad story of Victor Bâton, a war invalid who wants nothing so much as a friend to escape his solitude, and I never heard any mention of Catherine again, but I enthusiastically recommend Emmanuel Bove's My Friends.

Adding this to my list of Peirene's weirder books...
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Ever since their father died my mother and Uncle have remembered him with a sort of reverence, and they made a kind of funerary scarecrow that's supposed to be him, and what it is is a bolster pillow dressed in a kaftan and a sailor's cap that presides over the attic, and actually I suspect it was my uncle who initiated the project...

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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.

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!

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.

#ReadTheWorld2025

In March and April I‘ve read 7 books set in or written by author from places around the world: #Italy #Switzerland #Iraq #France #Iran #Denmark #Mexico #Argentina

I have the #InternationalBooker to thank for most of these books!