Incredibly sad diary from her mother's last years.
My mother's neigbour is in tears... I offer her a chocolate but she shakes her head, raising her ugly, puffed face. It breaks my heart. So does the following scene: as I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother
pick“Harmony exists only in music…And then rarely. A single family can no more sort out its legacy than society can…”
This is a family drama set over the Christmas holiday that wrestles with the question of what and how much one generation owes another.
Soft pick - this one won‘t be living on my shelves, despite the fabulous cover.
Up next - because I‘m a sucker for cover art! 😜
pickGranta 25. Not on Litsy, have suggested it but I don‘t know how long that takes to be reviewed.
An interesting set of stories, from the gripping account of the Gibraltar killings to a murder tale in South Africa which annoyingly continues in the next issue !
pickErnaux mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer. This is the last years of her mother‘s at a home. After visiting her mother, Ernaux would write down a few sentences in loose papers. Those papers have turned into this slim book of 100p. And it‘s so powerful and makes you think about old age.
5th book for #MarvellousMarch and #MarchMadness @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#1997 #182025 @Librarybelle
pick🎶 I get so emotional, baby / Every time I think of Beartown Hockey 🎶
What a finale. So many threads woven so intricately, so much PAIN, but also so much joy. Backman writes the realities of life, both good and bad. #contemporarylit #litintranslation #wearethebears
pickI swear, I enjoy Sally Rooney's writing and how she conveys physicality and setting so simply yet effectively, but GOD do I want to smack most of her protagonists. Too! Much! Interiority! Serves! No one! #contemporarylit #literaryfiction
"I don't know what bothered me about it, but the idea of falling to one's death in those depths gave me a bad vibe."
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