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I‘ve had this one on my Audible shelf for a while, & the snowy cover made this seem like a perfect time to dive in! Though well-performed, I never connected with any of the characters & the main character just grated against my nerves from start to finish (I, too, would have pushed her into the pool!). There were some interesting threads to the story & usually a fixed setting mystery works for me, but too many leaps to conclusions for me here!

After seeing a review of her trilogy of novels recently, I became curious about Kristóf‘s writing. I was not able to find the novels at my library but found her memoir.

This is a very short read, but spoke to me in so many levels. In this book, and through short vignettes, she talks about what it felt like to emigrate to Switzerland as a refugee, learning French and publishing all her work in a language she had to learn from scratch.

Loved!

This is a small, but difficult book. It remembered me a lot of Annie Ernaux. We go back to the 1960ties, a boarding school in a small Swiss village. The young narrator and her passion for the new girl at school. It's a narrow and tight world and that's how this book feels. Told in a clear voice, I couldn't help but asking myself how much of this story might be autobiographical?

3 stars. Mystery set in the Swiss Alps in a tuberculosis residence turned trendy hotel. I think Pearse tries to create a sense of spookiness and claustrophobia when a storm blocks everyone in with a killer, but I didn't find it suspenseful, maybe because I didn't connect with any characters so wasn't invested. I did love the setting as it reminded me of an 1800s hotel I stayed at above the Lauterbrunnen Valley.

Voted earlier….now the anxious wait. I‘m nauseously optimistic like so many of us. Pillows are from Sophie & Lili

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I‘m not sure I could summarize what this book is about. It‘s kind of about love? And regret, I guess. But kind of neither? It‘s often funny in a dry, judgmental way. Very well-observed characters. Interesting but, for me, not exactly moving.

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