pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It‘s been a minute since I‘ve read a Department Q novel!
These books don‘t disappoint! Great characters along with very intricate storylines that weave and tie end nicely throughout. This one explores the oldies in Denmark when the right wing nationalists wanted to keep Denmark “Danish” and explored the lengths some crazies will go to keep in that way.
The relationships between Carl, Assad and rose gold deeper.
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!!!!
pickThe narrator is still living in her alternate reality of a daily returning November 18. How to spend the time when you‘re caught in that one day again and again?
It‘s a concept that I found fascinating and the author writes so well. The ending felt a bit hurried but makes me eager to read the third part!
📸 Porto, Portugal
so-soDeathly boring and mundane as this might have been, it has BOTHERED me. And that's something.
It's basically Groundhog Day if absolutely nothing of any import or interest happened, but the very NORMALITY of it all is what makes it so terrifyingly chilling.
This was not a pleasant reading experience, and yet, there is a talent to making a reader feel they are going slowly insane, so I can absolutely see this book's worth as an experiment.
Guys, I'm so bored.
Like... so bored.
This is literally Groundhog Day if NOTHING HAPPENED.
