“Don‘t talk in my sleep either.”
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🙄 December 😆
The ice from yesterday‘s snow has melted enough for me to get out of the house for bit and enjoy a cappuccino and a cinnamon roll and start a new book 📖 ☕️ Enjoying the book so far, but I‘ve only read the first chapter.
pickThis 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‘m so close to finishing this but i have zero motivation. there‘s a lot to like about this book but there‘s not enough character or story for me. it‘s an incredibly detailed world and so much care was put into jt. but i‘m a character girlie. if the characters aren‘t pulling me in, detailed worldbuilding just feels like a textbook. it‘s disappointing because it has important things to say about the colonization and genocide of indigenous peoples
Ch 3: she‘s obviously a Liverpool supporter. I‘m a fan!
so-so⭐️⭐️ Tana French is the slow burn mystery queen, but good lord, was this an absolute slog! Dublin Murder Squad books 1-4 were much more compelling. Was she going for dark academia? The idea of original sin, and a group of girls who vowed to do something they‘re scared of, and also a boy they all desired but who was also an asshole? I just couldn‘t care about this story. I‘ll still read her again, though.
pickYA mystery set in a 1930's British Girls Boarding School. I honestly wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. I think what really worked is that it actually felt like a group of teen girls with realistic dynamics and personalities. In addition it had good pace and tone. Easy, entertaining read.
