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✨COMING SOON✨ #EuropaCollective ✨SEPT✨

@Aimeesue and I were chatting about our love for Europa Editions and a new bookclub was born. Pictured are some that I‘ve already read and loved. We‘ve all got a lot on our readerly plates so planning on one low-key Europa group read every few months. Care to join us?

I‘ll post two options for Sep. voting once we know who is interested. Aimee will do the same for Dec. All are welcome!

🤔 I think I need to try this in print. For some reason the narration is slightly grating (don‘t know why), which is impacting my enjoyment of the text.

My lucky day! I wasn‘t expecting this hold to come in so quickly. 👏🏾

It's official. There's a book hangover taking place. This is quite different from my most loved and revered book by this same author, Fresh Water for Flowers, but it is a rich, slightly mysterious, deeply drawn character study that will stay with me. Perrin takes the time with the story and its length allows you to fully invest in the characters.

Guess what, Barbara! It‘s time! I‘m going in.

Her books are SO LONG! How does she get away with it? Intricacy of plotting is remarkable, even if some threads are mush and melodrama. Nails the dynamics & intensity of a friendship of three. Frequent narrator & time shifts, but somehow it works. Virginie reveal—should have seen it coming. Her easygoing prose sweeps you along, but like with “Fleurs,” TOO MUCH muchness. Tho I suppose the overly lengthy immersion is the point? 2021

Well I loved it. Every page of it. Again Valérie Perrin creates such fantastic characters. In this book we follow three best friends in different phases of their lives. I loved all three of them and I loved the various storylines. 550 pages and I turned them all eagerly and full of anticipation about what would happen next. All the stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Roll100 #52booksclub #BookEveryoneHasRead #pop23 #BookIWishICouldReadForTheFirstTimeAgain

I don‘t want to get up and work. I want to keep on reading. I am loving this book more than I dared to hope!

#WeeklyForecast 15/23

I am in the midst of Ben, thanks to @vivastory who I miss terribly on Litsy. It is a worthy sequel to The Fifth Child so far. Next will be the tagged. I am a bit anxious to read it because I loved Fresh Water for Flowers so much. So it‘s gonna be an exciting week!

I LOVED THIS BOOK!! Just translated from the French, by Valerie Perrin, author of Fresh Water for Flowers. Two boys and a girl meet each other when they‘re children and become lifelong friends who you will never forget. And what lives they live! This book is 550 pages of extraordinary writing, plot twists and memorable characters, one after another.

I wanted to love this book. But it seemed to drag on forever. The narrative has an awkward flow to it as well, and may have benefited from a heavier editorial hand. But hey, at least it checked off one of the #ChunksterChallenge2023 levels.

An early #BookReport from me this week. I‘ll soon off to the hairdresser.

I‘m almost done with All That She Carried #SheSaid and will be finished before tomorrow‘s weekly forecast.

I read Tree.
I‘ve just started Road Ends. This is the last book by Lawson that I haven‘t read.

All the love for this one and don‘t get me started on the tension

1986: 10 yr olds Adrien, Etienne and Nina end up in the same class at school. So begins a beautiful friendship

2017: A car is found in the lake, but more than that this is the story about Nina and the mysterious narrator

While reading you know that somewhere along the way, the trio stopped talking and I couldn‘t wait to find out if it had anything to do with the found car.

#BookReport

I kept up with All That She Carried #SheSaid

Yesterday I felt like reading all the short books I have out from the library, so I did: The Lost Thing, Story of Babar: The Little Elephant and The Young Man.

I started The Marriage Portrait and I‘m thinking about DNFing. So I started an other book, Three and I‘m already really enjoying it.

This is a literary mystery within a well written story of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, the past and the present. It is a quiet, long, slow novel, thoroughly engrossing and occasionally surprising. It follows three children from their meeting to their middle age in a slow and thoughtful epic of a story. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2022/10/review-three-by-valerie-perrin.html?m=0

Forgot to review this. #pop22 #setinthe80s
Love this author! Gorgeous writing, the characters written with such empathy and depth, and a compelling plot, full of love, betrayals, tragedy and secrets. It‘s a story of 3 friends, inseparable in childhood, separated by a series of events in their teens, as the narrative moves back and forth in time. Ultimately this is about friendship in all its complexities, evolutions and endurance. Just fantastic.

📚 Tagged, Ten Steps to Nanette, The Time Traveler‘s Wife
🖋 Colm Toibin
🎞 Truly, Madly, Deeply
📺 Ted Lasso
🎤 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
🎶 This is a Rebel Song (Sinead O‘Connor) Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash) True Love Will Never Fade (Mark Knopflerj This is How I Disappear (MCR) Through Glass (Stone Sour)

Sorry to be so late @CBee Finally home from whirlwind trip to Cali.

#ManicMonday #letterT

I enjoyed this book, but it wasn‘t the emotional sucker punch of Fresh Water for Flowers. She manages dual timelines masterfully.

Their alphabetically close last names bring Nina, Adrien, and Etienne together in fifth grade. Despite different dispositions, they stay remarkably close through middle and high school, but when tragedy strikes near graduation, their adult lives diverge dramatically. Can they come back together when it counts?

@AmyG LOOK!!! This was a gift from you and it works for #TBRtarot 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Now, full disclosure - the blurb in question was written about Fresh Water. But I‘m counting it anyway 😂😂😂

What a delightful surprise, @BookNAround
Completely unnecessary, but greatly appreciated. A new-to-me author, a cute bag and bookmark, and yummy pretzel treats. Thank you!
#litsylovefallswap
@Deblovestoread @Bookgoil

I really loved this. I love how the story of the three friends is slowly revealed, and the mysteries set up at the start are gradually resolve. But more than that, it's one of those books that you just live in, and are totally immersed.

Gradually making my through this. It's a very vividly created world - reading it feels like fully stepping into their lives. It's pretty long, so I'm taking this one slow and steady and I think that suits the book. It seems like it's not one to rush.

Beach reads are always a must!

“Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. Years later, a car is pulled up from the bottom of a lake, with a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, follows the case. Step by step she reveals the extraordinary bonds that unite the three childhood friends. How is the car wreck connected to their story? Why did their friendship fall apart?”

AMY GOLDSMITH!!! You did not have to do this! You are the sweetest and I absolutely can‘t wait to read this. Thank you, thank you, my lovely friend 📕♥️📕♥️📕 It was like my birthday today as I got this book from you, and my BOTM box 😂😃
@AmyG

Fun post from our local bookstore ♥️

Lovely story of friendship, childhood, death, uncertainty and salvation. Loved every moment.

The hubby fell yesterday while biking, broke his hip and…hip replacement today. Maybe I can get this book finished? Not how I wanted to do it. ☹️

Huge FAIL for me. With all going on in this country…..I just couldn‘t concentrate. So I read about 50 pages of Three and a few chapters of The Midcoast. 😔

@Andrew65 #20in4Readathon

I honestly really loved this book, story and character-wise, but I had some problems with it as well. However, I can‘t say what without totally spoiling it. 😂 So if you‘ve read and want to discuss let me know!

My goal is to finish Three. And maybe read some of my ebook, The Midcoast.

#20in4 Readathon @Andrew65

5 🌟 I loved this book! To echo @TrishB whoever decided Valerie Perrin‘s books should be translated into English gets all the stars. Part coming of age, part found family, a little mystery and a whole lot of life. Just lovely.

Oh I just loved this. Friendships, failures, fall outs, everything in here. It‘s a feel good, but melancholic read. You do want to bang heads together occasionally, but the story gets told and yeah, I just loved it.
Whoever decided to translate this author into English, thank you very much!

My goals for June are:
Read my Bookspin and Author-a-Month books.
Read my Sunday Buddy Read book.
And read the tagged book-the book I want to read the most.
If I read anything else….awesome.

#BigJuneReadathon @Clwojick

We three” - Adrien, Etienne and Nina; childhood friends, inseparable. Until a betrayal to great to ignore shatters their friendship, scattering the three. Told in flashbacks, an observer shares the details of events that brought the three together, tore them apart and hopefully reunite them.
A slow burn, richly crafted, interwoven story which requires time and patience but delivers a deeply compelling, rewarding reading experience.

Oh WOW!! At 72% I‘m starting to FINALLY put all the pieces together- SO GOOD!!!

Went to get a gift and look what I found! I am so excited to read this. 🙌🏻❤️

I‘m 10 hours into the audiobook and only at 38.8% completed. It‘s definitely a slow burn literary novel. Told from the perspective of an “outsider” looking back at her childhood & college days, remembering a trio of friends who were inseparable. There‘s an unsettling tone, more than just isolation or loneliness. It‘s gripping but requires time and attention. I find I can‘t do other chores while listening. #ARC #NetGalley

So….it took me awhile to get used to the narration and figure out who‘s who within the story….but now im hooked!! And Thank God, since there is still 19 hours and 45 minutes left!! I do think this one might be better in print @Centique @Suet624 @TrishB @BarbaraBB @Kdgordon88 I‘ll keep you posted but definitely getting Fresh Water for Flowers vibes. #NetGalley #DreamscapeAudio

As the sun goes down, I‘m starting this one.

Woohoo 🎉🙌🏻🥳Just got approved to listen to the audio ARC of Three / the newest novel from Valerie Perrin ( the fabulous French author who wrote Fresh Water For Flowers) I‘m beyond excited!!!! Thank you #NetGalley and #DreamscapeAudio

Loved this - a real involved drama, with great characters. It reminded me of A Little Life - without the deep trauma! That's not to say the emotions aren't here - just a little more subdued. Perrin is a great story teller and has an eye for capturing small moments. This really satisfied my craving for all things French - having just finished season 4 of Call My Agent! A smart summer read.

I‘m so happy to be the first to post about Perrin‘s second novel to be translated. I just received my copy in the mail. Her debut novel, Fresh Water for Flowers, continues to hold a top spot in my list of much-loved books.