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BarbaraBB
Small Boats | Vincent Delecroix; Jeremy Harding; Helen
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This #InternationalBooker novel is based on a real case where a dinghy overfilled with migrants attempts to cross the Channel and starts sinking.

Most of the book consists of thoughts by a coastguard radio operator, who‘s being interrogated by the police because of her alleged complicity in the death of 27 migrants. We are drawn into her conflicted consciousness, displaying what appears to be an almost inhumane coldness and indifference. ⬇️⬇️

BarbaraBB Is it her voice or that of all of us? What about humanity?
It‘s a morally complex read but one that is relentless and will keep me thinking for some time to come. Very good.
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squirrelbrain Great review! ❤️ 12h
Tamra I guess I need to try this one! 10h
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Lesliereadsalot On my radar! 8h
sarahbarnes Great review. I definitely want to read it. ♥️ 8h
BarbaraBB @Tamra I guess so too! 7h
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BarbaraBB
Small Boats | Vincent Delecroix; Jeremy Harding; Helen
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#WeeklyForecast 18/25

I am in the middle of The Mangan Inheritance which I am loving. Next will be the tagged title for the #InternationalBooker and I also want to read My Documents, that @TrishB nominated for #CampLitsy25 and caught my eye in the bookshop the day after!

TrishB I haven‘t brought yet but it‘s on my payday purchase list! 2d
sarahbarnes Small Boat! Can‘t wait to hear your review of that one. My Documents caught my eye too from @TrishB. And now I‘m interested in the third one although I haven‘t heard of it. 2d
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes I‘ll keep you posted on all of them 😉 2d
BarbaraBB @TrishB Thanks for bringing it up. Seems so good. 2d
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AnneCecilie
Theres a Monster Behind the Door | Galle Blem, Latitia Saint-Loubert, Karen Fleetwood
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I‘m not sure what I feel about this novel, but maybe a soft pick, guess only time will tell.

A story about a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional family and where her parents mantra is “That‘s the way it is and that‘s that!”

Another book of the #InternationalBooker Longlist

BarbaraBB I have missed this one somehow. Not sure if I should read it? 2w
AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB It has won a prize and I have seen others loving it. So it might just be me? 2w
charl08 I've struggled to get into it, but hoping I get hooked soon... 2w
sarahbarnes I can‘t get this one from my library yet and didn‘t want to buy it…. 2w
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BarbaraBB
Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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“Every 2 hours and 25 minutes, a woman in #Mexico is strangled, raped, dismembered, burned alive, mutilated, beaten to pulp, and left with bruises and broken bones.”

Combine these gruesome facts on femicide with living the high life of drugs, money, cosmetic surgery and Instagram followers and you probably have the span of Mexican society and of this #InternationalBooker collection of short stories. A good one.

#ReadingTheWorld2025

Tamra Sounds rough! 3w
GatheringBooks Ooh! A perfect gruesome book to read for #ReadTheWorld2025 indeed. 3w
sarahbarnes Glad to see you liked this one too! 3w
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BarbaraBB
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At first I didn‘t know what to make of this book. Were it loosely connected stories, all set in a fantasy setting? YA maybe? And then I got it and I got the message. A book that packs a punch in a quite unexpected way(to me) and well deserves its place on the #InternationalBooker shortlist!

sarahbarnes Glad you liked it too! I agree I‘m glad it‘s on the shortlist. 3w
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BarbaraBB
Man Booker Prize | Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, John McBrewster
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The #InternationalBooker shortlist will be announced tomorrow. So far I have read 5 books. Favorites are Perfection and Hunchback but I also liked Eurotrash and Calculation of Volume. I am now reading Under the Eye of the Big Bird and liking that one too. Oh and I have Reservoir Bitches, On a Woman‘s Madness and The Book of Disappearance to be read and I want to read Small Boat too. The shortlist is coming too soon! Any thoughts on the longlist?

Ruthiella No thoughts on what might make the short list, but I am super intrigued by The Calculation of Volume. I think I might wait, however, until all 7(?) are translated before I start. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures I wish these prizes were more spaced out!! The only one I have read is Reservoir (which for the life of me I cannot spell on my own) I am reading Big Bird this week, those were the 2 I was most attracted to, I am also waiting for Hunchback from the library. 3w
BarbaraBB @Ruthiella That is ambitious! I wanted to try to the first to see where it goes and now I will certainly read the next one! 3w
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BarbaraBB @ChaoticMissAdventures Me too, it‘s way too much! I am intrigued by many title so I will read some more! 3w
AnneCecilie I haven‘t read that many, but I‘ve loved Reservoir Bitches and The Calculation of Volume, and hope to see them on the shortlist (edited) 3w
Ruthiella The other option is to learn Danish and read them in the original if the translation takes too long. 🤣 Not likely! 3w
sarahbarnes What did you think of the shortlist? You did pretty well with the ones you‘ve read so far! 3w
BarbaraBB I liked most of the books I read, and am very happy with the longlist. The shortlist couldn‘t really go wrong although I think Hunchback deserved it too! @sarahbarnes (edited) 3w
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BarbaraBB
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#InternationalBooker

This was good and frightening. A woman gets caught up in the 18th of November. Every morning she wakes up to the same day. She thinks of ways to escape and get on with her life. It is a quiet book, and somehow it felt believable. I do want to read part II!

sarahbarnes Excited for this one! Glad you liked it! 3w
Chelsea.Poole I just checked this out—surprised at how slim it is. Glad to see your stamp of approval 😊 3w
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes Your kind of book! 3w
BarbaraBB @Chelsea.Poole It‘s good! 3w
youneverarrived Stacking! 3w
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Leniverse
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I forgot to post my list, but here are my #ReadYourKindle books. I'm quite eager to read them all, but will I actually do it? Probably not, since my kindle also contains 3 books from this year's #WomensPrize for fiction, 1 from the #InternationalBooker and the #CosmereBuddyRead books 🤷🏻‍♀️ I know it all counts, but damn I really want to read these four as well.

@CBee

CBee I feel your pain! 😂 4w
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BarbaraBB
The Jigsaw Man | Nadine Matheson
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A decent thriller about a serial killer, his copycat and the cops chasing him. This may sound pretty standard for this kind of book, but it has a lot of suspects and twists and make sure for a few hours well spent!

Now back to the #InternationalBooker!

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BarbaraBB
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#WeeklyForecast 14/25

I am about to start Somewhere Else of the #WP25 longlist. After that, I‘ll wait what books will be shortlisted and decide which ones to read. So far I am preferring the #InternationalBooker longlist over the #WP25 so I am having two more of that list lined up for this week!

squirrelbrain Have a great week! 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures I have Big Bird on my TBR for this week also! Hope you like it. 1mo
Lesliereadsalot I have Big Bird on my radar too. PS 1/2 way thru Point Zero on your recommendation. Where the heck is Teiko‘s hubby? 1mo
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Hooked_on_books I loved the Balle! I dove right into book 2 and really want the others to be translated. 1mo
sarahbarnes I hope you like Big Bird! I‘m anxiously awaiting Volume from the library. 1mo
BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot I hope you‘re enjoying it! I loved how Japanese it felt. 1mo
BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books I am happy to hear that! 1mo
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes I have high hopes! 1mo
Leoslittlebooklife The Balle novel is on my tbr too, its plot sounds very intriguing. 1mo
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