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Here‘s my review.

This book counts for:

☑️ 2 readathons - #wintergames, #bookspinbingo

☑️ 6 hours of reading (The audiobook is 6 hours.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (It mentions a ski trip and it mentions the family celebrating Christmas but it‘s not a Christmas story. The book cover kinda has Christmas or Winter vibes too.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

This was devastatingly sad 😭!! If something bad could happen to this kid it did! And the kid was the author himself! Just heartbreaking, but it did have a sweetness to the ending as well. It‘s a beautiful holiday story but it‘s ROUGH to get through. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

One sign of a great writer is that they can violate all the so-called rules of good writing with impunity. This is the second Anita Brookner novel I've read now, and I'm hard-pressed to think of another writer who does so much telling (about her characters' personalities and thought processes) in relation to showing, but it's so nuanced and well-observed that I immediately feel like I know and sympathize with these lonely introverts.

6 months later my hold comes in 👵🏻

Thought I'd share a cool little library phone booth that we stumbled upon in Scotland. We were driving through the countryside in the middle of nowhere when I spotted it and we pulled over to take a look. It was such an unexpected and fun surprise! 📚
Reminds me of the tagged book, which I really need to read now!

“What you need is a life of your own. You can't hang on to them forever and live theirs or stop them from making mistakes.”

#DaysDevotedTo

#FamilyStories

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#bonfire
#DeadSerious
#bookscavengerhunt
#hauntedshelf
@OriginalCyn620

This is a hard book to read. Unlikeable characters, dealing with life and each other. Anita Brookner is such a good writer of characters, I felt like a fly on the wall, observing their lives closely, feeling their solitude and aging. Thanks for the recommendation Sarah 🤍