#FinallyReading 🎉
I've been on the hold list since the International Booker Longlist was announced, and it's finally my turn, just in time for Women in Translation Month! So excited to dive in.
#WomeninTranslation
pick🙇🏾♀️🙇🏾♀️ Now I have to wait until November (18th???) for volumes 3 & 4! Poop.
Cliff hanger.
Ummmmm maybe I‘m over protective or American culture is different, but I would not let my 5-6 year old son go with a woman I just met that day to a toy shop while I worked on a laptop in a cafe. 😐
On the other hand, my husband let some Ethiopian women unknown to him take our 3 month old baby into a bathroom in the Addis Ababa airport to change his diaper. First time dad - overwhelmed. 🤭
pickTara is stuck some weird time glitch and is blindly trying to find a way out!
I ordered Volume II halfway thru! I‘m going to be frustrated when I have to wait for III & IV to be released in November. I‘m sure I‘ll preorder.
Daughter of a Greenlander mother and a wealthy Dane, Smilla is a most unusual character. In Denmark, alone, she befriends a lonely boy Isaiah. A huge stuttering man, the Mechanic, becomes her lover. Isaiah, afraid of heights, dies falling from an apartment building leaving only his footprints in the snow: Smilla‘s remarkable sense of snow tells her this was murder. This brick of a novel follows her attempt in painstaking detail with help from ⬇️
I‘ve also decided to start this audiobook between listening to Kristin Lavransdatter. #Greenland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
pickAfter reading Vol I, I immediately got ahold of Vol II. I couldn‘t put these down and can‘t wait to read the next one. I‘m mesmerized by the way the books use the premise of being stuck in time to examine the things that matter to us, our relationships to other people, places, and points in time. At the same time they are heartbreaking and have a sense of adventure.
pickWhat can I say about this book that those before me have not said? Tara wakes up one morning to find herself repeating the previous day. However for everyone around her, it is their first time experiencing November 18. While this could be an amusing Groundhog-Day style story, instead Balle takes this in a much more interesting direction. It becomes a meditation on time and experience, connections, love and everything in between. Con‘t ⬇️
so-sohttps://youtu.be/fb2CfEMAvrw?feature=shared
Have posted my review / discussion of this one.
Spoilers. But having said that.... there aren't many plot points to spoil 😁😁😁
I JEST!!!!
