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Starting this. Anyone else reading the International Booker longlist?

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I loved this. My first of Kracht‘s books so I can‘t compare & had no expectations. It helped that I read it in Gstaad where it‘s partly set. It reads as autofiction as the author names himself & his books - I assume some events are invented. His mother is wonderfully sharp & eccentric. The writing is crisp & erudite, making for a satisfying read. Idiosyncratic, it won‘t be to everyone‘s taste - he‘s privileged & cynical - but deceptively profound.

#LittensLoveRomance There are some books that are infamous and honestly - sometimes they aren‘t all that they‘re hyped up to be. But it‘s fun to find that out for ourselves so this month I‘ve picked some of the biggies from the last several years. Some - yes - will be cringey. But won‘t it be fun to find out together?! Vote for our Feb read here: https://forms.gle/9h9zpvyU966d46j76

4.5/5 ⭐️
Attaccata alle pagine dall'inizio alla fine anche con questo libro, e d'altronde come tutti i libri di Dicker che ho letto
Un giallo avvincente che mi ha anche regalato un'appassionante storia d'amore

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I‘ve had this one on my Audible shelf for a while, & the snowy cover made this seem like a perfect time to dive in! Though well-performed, I never connected with any of the characters & the main character just grated against my nerves from start to finish (I, too, would have pushed her into the pool!). There were some interesting threads to the story & usually a fixed setting mystery works for me, but too many leaps to conclusions for me here!

After seeing a review of her trilogy of novels recently, I became curious about Kristóf‘s writing. I was not able to find the novels at my library but found her memoir.

This is a very short read, but spoke to me in so many levels. In this book, and through short vignettes, she talks about what it felt like to emigrate to Switzerland as a refugee, learning French and publishing all her work in a language she had to learn from scratch.

Loved!

This 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?

Voted earlier….now the anxious wait. I‘m nauseously optimistic like so many of us. Pillows are from Sophie & Lili