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Rien de tel pour profiter d'une soirée, qu'apprécier la quiétude du silence quand tout le monde est couché, en savourant une délicieuse histoire de meurtre avec un bon thé...

I read this for book club and enjoyed it. Being in Molly's mind was certainly interesting but I will say I got to the end and went "wait...what?" I'm still processing how I feel about the ending, but I liked the writing and would read this author again. ?

As a mystery the book is good. As a book showing the world through the eyes of Molly, it‘s great. Molly reminded me of Eleanor Oliphant in many ways. Plenty of characters to love and loathe in this one.

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I haven‘t read this one but it was one of the novels classified as neurodivergent mentioned in GR. another book from my physical tbr😳

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs

Delightful! You won‘t soon forget the main character-Molly. Her inability to see evil drives the plot. You will enjoy- I sure did.

I didn't see the end coming like it did... An enjoyable read... Gran, "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

@Bookwomble If you are ever in NYC, seek out the Bemelmans bar in the beautiful Hotel Carlyle.If you get a cocktail or a mocktail you will be transported in time to 1947 .Bemelmans artful murals grace the walls,he even decorated the lampshades! Could this be the hotel he wrote about? One of my all time happy places.🍸🧉🍹🍷

I approached this book with some diffidence, humour, and the appropriate subjects of humour, often being very much of their time. The opening anecdotes were lightheartedly funny sketches of workers and patrons of the hotel, though there were parts that justified my reservations. Then, about ⅓ in, without losing the bantering tone, Bemelmans introduced some darker, even sinister, characters and situations, that might have raised eyebrows in ⬇️

"The day was one of the rare ones when Mespoulets and I had a guest at our tables."

#FirstLineFridays @shybookowl

After the disappointment of the last book I read, hopefully the jaunty penguin on the cover of this 1948 edition of Hotel Splendide is a good prognosticator of the contents, touted as the author's humorous memoir of his life as a waiter in a New York hotel in the 1910s-'20s🤞🏼