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#ForeverNovember Day 27: This notebook of personalized #18AdultingTips we gave as a gift to our daughter when she turned 18 has a #BlackCover and black pages. It contains messages from family and friends providing useful “adulting tips.”

The story was fine - a bit slow moving but well done. My issue was the quality of the recording of the audio book. It was really badly edited to the point that the editing was obvious. In a well produced audiobook it should not be noticeable at all...at least in my opinion.

This falls squarely in the 'literary mystery' camp (i.e. the not-fun kind 😋) , so not #kisskissbangbang in the traditional sense, but still fits I think. Modiano plays with the pieces of a mystery novel- mysterious woman, shady characters, lurid night scenes...murder. But instead of an A to B chronology, the MC remembers portions from different times, triggered by fragments of notes he took decades ago. Singular style with atmosphere to spare 🏙

#doiwannaknow what I'm going to read next on my TBR? I was thinking the tagged book, but I'm not 100% sure. And deciding before committing is fun so I tend to prolong it a little 🙂 #tuneintonovember @Cinfhen @Robothugs

I suspect this either was so clever that i missed the point or its emporers new clothes syndrome. A man reflects on a young woman with whom he had a fleeting relationship 50 years previously, an enigmatic woman like paris itself she is more mystery than reality. Nothing really happens- anyway one of the images is my cup of tea ☕, the other is not

This is the second Modiano book I have read and I am quite hooked. Most of the plots don't seem to lead anywhere, but the claustrophobic noir narrative is compelling. It is hard not to take the journey down the dark alleys of the mind. It is that journey and the possibility that makes it so interesting. There never seems to be a destination.

Highly stylized translation from the French original about an older man's reminiscences of 1960s Paris. He recalls Dannie, a young woman of mysterious and furtive actions against a background of Moroccans and the haze of memory. Slow and deliberate; but elegant in its own way