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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?

I read about 3/4 of this book but lost interest. I don‘t think it was anything to do with the book more so life has been super busy this last week and I have not had the time to just read read read like normal.

Downloaded and ready to start tomorrow.

It was fine but surface level. I guess that was what it was meant to be, but I'd rather a deep dive anytime.

I didn't like the book club book so I switched to something from my TBR pile. 1/3 of the way in and I dunno how I feel about it.

June‘s #Bookspin list comes from whichever books I could get to first in the midst of unpacking at a new house… But new house = new background pics, so that‘s fun 🤩🏡📚

Library books I've had since the end of February. How many of them do you think I've read? 🙈

Thanks so much everyone who sent good wishes and most importantly kept me company while I‘ve been sick - after 3 dr apps, 1 hospital trip for blood tests and 2 calls with nurses I‘m actually not sure what I had?? But I‘m feeling better now and I‘m going to work tomorrow. I missed my office! I love my work and I‘m excited to get back

Thanks to the 10 (10!) books I‘ve read. I‘d have run mad without them, and tagged is one of my new fave novels

#jennyis30 @jenniferw88 LGBTQ+ romance

I‘m stretching it a bit to count this as a romance, but I‘m not much of a romance reader and I‘m trying to use tbr books for prompts to avoid buying new ones, but this is the story of a woman who‘s in love with another woman so... kinda? More of a Bildungsroman and not ‘romantic‘ by any stretch of the imagination... and they‘re never ‘together‘ but she was definitely in love and that shit was super queer so

16/15 #jumpstart2020 @Clwojick @Lizpixie

Had me thinking ‘this is why I love reading‘ every page. I already know it will be on my year end lists, this was a mindblowingly perfect novel. The story of a girl living a stifled life (‘senile childhood‘) in a boarding school in Switzerland, falling in love with another girl and not quite telling her, and thinking about her life. Every sentence dripped poetry, just perfect

#readeurope2020 Switzerland

I‘m having a hard time remembering exactly how I felt about this because I finished it a while ago. It‘s narrated by a girl who spent her youth in various boarding schools, and gets into the strange relationships of a bunch of girls living together in isolation. But it‘s very brief, and, as I often do with shorter works, I struggled to form attachments to the characters.

Yesterday‘s #libraryhaul

I‘m hoping to read the top two and review them on my blog. The bottom is non-fiction that I plan to read to add further context to my #bookclub book, The Moor‘s Account.

Really interesting article by a graphic designer on designing a cover for his favourite book.

https://lithub.com/the-perils-of-designing-a-cover-for-a-novel-you-truly-love/

Set in post war Switzerland and narrated by an unlikable jaded 14 year old who has spent the last 6 years in boarding school and will be stuck in one till she turns seventeen. She relieves her boredom by obsessing over the new girl. Bit creepy.