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4⭐️ In this book, Zola chose the themes of poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence. Zola being Zola, he didn‘t hold back 😭 My heart broke for Gervaise Macquart 💔 and she‘s been haunting me. I can‘t stop thinking about her.

I started this book last year but I stopped halfway. I picked it up again recently and I have about 80 pages left. It‘s sooooo sad 😭 I will forever remember Gervaise Macquart 😢

There‘s a chapter where Zola brought the reader to the Louvre. I enjoyed the mini tour so much I spent a lot of time googling the mentioned artworks

Back to Zola (book 13/20). I expect to be emotionally bruised 😅

Talking about Zola, I‘m so excited that my next read will be L‘Assommoir. This and the next four books are all about Gervaise Macquart‘s family 😍 The best part of the series!!! But first, let me take a break from Zola. I‘m still recuperating from the last book 😁

First trip to the library sale room since Covid began. Couldn‘t pass up a clean first edition Murakami even though I already have it in paperback, The Kindly Ones was just added to my wishlist over the weekend, G.J. Meyer wrote an excellent history of WWI so I was real excited when I heard about The Borgias (a pet fascination of mine) and it‘s about time I picked up some Zola.

April was a very different reading month from March. I continued reading with various groups, including keeping up with the #BibleBuddyRead, completing 2 books for the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead, another #PemberLittens read, our #LitsyBookClub pick, and 4 #1001books. The French novel L‘Assommoir by Zola ended up being my favorite because of its amazingly detailed description of everyday life in Paris.

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This book is amazingly descriptive, bringing the reader right into the lives Gervaise and her family. The first half was fascinating to listen to and then as things really began to spiral downward it became an increasingly more difficult listen. There‘s so much pain and misery in the lives of these people that Zola so unflinchingly describes.

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I‘m about halfway through listening to this novel, translated as The Drinking Den, and Zola‘s description of the every day life of these working class people in 19th century Paris is so incredibly detailed. I‘m completely drawn into the story of their lives while continually cringing as I see things beginning to spiral out of control. I want so much for Gervaise to turn things around again although I know it‘s not to be.

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Am obsessed with The Paradise on Netflix, so Im starting an Emile Zola novel on dailylit.com. Any other recs for best Zola novel I should start right away?