Grand hotel | Litsy

#GrandHotel

This novel of a grand hotel in 1920s Berlin is blurbed as a “delicious and disturbing masterpiece”. I‘m kind of hoping it gets picked for our #NYRBBookClub (if for no other reason than it will “force” me to read it). 😄

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Cinfhen, BarbaraBB

LauraJ I‘m always up for disturbing! 5y

catebutler I have this one sitting on my shelf! Looking forward to your review. 5y

BarbaraBB Maybe you can nominate it! Or @GatheringBooks (she posted about it as well)? I‘d love to read it. That cover 😍😍😍 5y

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Melissa_J Well how perfect is this book for the prompt? I‘m intrigued. 5y

sisilia I loved this book! There‘s a movie with Joan Crawford and John Barrymore in it. 5y

Cinfhen This looks spectacular 5y

batsy This is on my TBR so it'll be great if it gets picked 😆 5y

LeahBergen @LauraJ Me, too! 5y

LeahBergen @catebutler It MIGHT get read within the next year or so. 🤷🏻‍♀️😆😆 5y

LeahBergen @BarbaraBB Yes! I keep thinking about what I‘ll nominate but I‘m not up until October (if our rotation stays the same, that is). 5y

LeahBergen @Melissa_J Too easy, right? 😆 5y

LeahBergen @sisilia Yes! I‘ve not seen it yet, though. 👍🏻 5y

LeahBergen @Cinfhen It does, doesn‘t it? 5y

LeahBergen @batsy Right? I‘m sure one of my many (already owned) NYRBs will get picked soon. Oh, who am I kidding? I like to shop for new ones, too. 😆😆 5y

Cathythoughts Very interesting... 😁 5y

Mdargusch That cover would make it a pick for me! 5y

kspenmoll Love the cover illustration!! (edited) 5y

charl08 I've been doing some Berlin reading after a trip there last month - this looks good! 5y

Jess_Read_This You are wonderfully dangerous for my TBR pile... you always find the best books! 5y

vivastory This sounds fantastic! 5y

LeahBergen @Cathythoughts 😘 5y

LeahBergen @Mdargusch It‘s great, isn‘t it? 5y

LeahBergen @kspenmoll I do, too! 5y

LeahBergen @charl08 This sounds perfect for you then. 👍🏻 5y

LeahBergen @Jess_Read_This 😆 What a lovely compliment! 😘😘 5y

LeahBergen @vivastory It does, doesn‘t it? We may need to keep the #NYRBBookclub going for YEARS. 😆 5y

Reviewsbylola Delicious and disturbing—they are speaking to me! 5y

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sisilia

Grand hotel | Vicki Baum

First meeting for NYRB Classics Reading Society. We discussed so many books: Grand Hotel, Less, Middle Sex, Suicide Club, The Goldfinch, The Secret History, Beauty is a Wound, and so many more!!!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So cute!!! ❤️❤️❤️ 6y

Mdargusch Sounds like a great time! 6y

batsy Fun!! 😊 6y

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erzascarletbookgasm That‘s great! Are they Littens? Get them on Litsy! 😁 6y

Kimzey Good times! 😊👍🏻📚 6y

sisilia @erzascarletbookgasm Jen is on Litsy @thetirelessreader but inactive. Florence is not active anywhere 😆 I‘ll try to lure them to Litsy haha 6y

minkyb Wonderful! 6y

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sisilia

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This novel depicts a careful character study, presenting the readers with contradiction between dying vs coming to life, money vs poverty, aging vs youth, etc in late 1920s‘ Berlin society. Fragments of life flicker momentarily in Grand Hotel, souls collide and bring significant changes to one another. 5⭐️ The movie adaptation won the Oscar in 1933, and Apple Store has it for rental for SGD 4.98! I‘m going to watch it now!

erzascarletbookgasm Sounds good, stacking! Love the nyrb cover and Greta Garbo...stacking to watch too! 😁 6y

Billypar I remember loving the film, but it's been so long since I've seen it. I always thought it was interesting how Garbo made such a simple line- 'I want to be alone!' so famous. 6y

sisilia @erzascarletbookgasm I think you‘re gonna love it! 6y

sisilia @Billypar 😆 I wonder why, too! I love the old Hollywood movies - they are... enchanting! 6y

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sisilia

Grand hotel | Vicki Baum

Doctor Otternschlag sharing his wisdom with Otto Kringelein 💕

Tanisha_A Oh man! This rings hard in my ears and head! 6y

sisilia @Tanisha_A Same here 😁 6y

Reggie ❤️ 6y

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sisilia

Grand hotel | Vicki Baum

This somehow reminds me of Grand Budapest Hotel 😅

mcipher I love that movie! 6y

Tanisha_A That was a great watch! 6y

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sisilia

Grand hotel | Vicki Baum

If you are in Singapore, please join me and @thetirelessreader for our next discussions. There are so many #nyrbclassics titles that we want to read!

sisilia @BookishMe @GatheringBooks Are you based in Singapore? In case you are keen .... 6y

GatheringBooks yes! based in singapore. is this a face to face book club? 6y

sisilia @GatheringBooks Yes it is 😃 6y

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GatheringBooks where is the venue for the meet up? i live all the way out in the west. hahahaha 6y

sisilia @GatheringBooks We can arrange for a spot at central area 😄 Raffles Place will be dead quiet on a Sunday so that‘s one candidate (edited) 6y

BookishMe Thanks for the tag. I work on Sundays ;( boo ;( 6y

RealLifeReading How fun!! 6y

sisilia @RealLifeReading Join us when you happen to be in SG. I set up “NYRB Classics Reading Society” in Meetup app. Join as a member and you‘ll get the updates on the next meetings (edited) 6y

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tracyrowanreads

Grand hotel | Vicki Baum

Krampus can't wait to start reading Grand Hotel.

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H.Louise

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What goes on in the Grand Hotel - the good and the bad -mirrors the world outside. We get a snapshot of a few of the occupants in 1920s Berlin as they come and go through the hotel doors. It is both funny and bitter sweet. I enjoyed spending a couple days of my vacation with this lovely book.

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Bookdodger

Grand hotel | Vicki Baum

Started this one which is next in my "60 at 60". Isn't this sentence just perfect?

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shawnmooney

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SASKATCHEWAN BOOK HAUL - BOOK #14 (the last one)

I blurbed about it recently, gushing over the cover. When I saw it at the bookstore the other day I'd already overshot my book budget so was going to leave it but my Japanese boyfriend who's been visiting Canada with me insisted on buying it for me. Aww..... ♥️♥️

LeahBergen Now he's a keeper! I've been enjoying going through your Saskatchewan purchases with you 😃 8y

Bookdodger #H.Louise is this in the list? 8y

shawnmooney @Skiles Great question! Straight Japanese men tend to be hugely intimidated by yet very attracted to western women. In a nutshell, that's why :). But tank tops help! ;) Any plans to come back? 8y

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shawnmooney @Bookdodger Sorry, I couldn't understand your question. 8y

Hooked_on_books He's a total keeper! 8y

quirkyreader Yet another book addicted couple. 🐸🐙 8y

Bookdodger @shawnmooney I was asking my friend if this was on my 60 at 60 list and it is. I have always wanted to read it but since I have a bookstore I have to read primarily front list books. 60 at 60 is my permission to read what I want and I am thrilled to read this! Looking forward to hearing your review of it. 8y

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shawnmooney

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ReadingEnvy Gorgeous! 8y

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BookHopper

Grand hotel | Vicki Baum

I love New York Review Books beyond all reason. The books they reissue! The fabulous covers! I'm a huge fan! Recently finished Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum-a massive international bestseller in the early 1920s that went on to become a beloved movie starring Greta Garbo. What's not to love?

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AnnieSmith

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Wonderful novel of linked character stories rescued from obscurity. Baum has created fully human portraits of the hotel guests that will show you the highs and lows of life in late Weimar Berlin. So good I wonder why this author isn't better known.

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