so-soI enjoyed this novel about Sadie, an undercover agent infiltrating a commune in France. The strong writing & Sadie‘s wry voice & cynical humour pulled me along, but Bruno‘s emails about anthropology dragged. They felt like essays only loosely connected to the story. I liked Sadie‘s dark, opinionated humour & the thought-provoking ideas about corporate espionage. Too meandering for a spy novel & the ending was contrived & unsatisfying.
pickBruno finds a highly successful businesswoman apparently dead by suicide in her car.Case closed.Still,he has his suspicions.Meanwhile,there‘s a movement to usurp him from his job as Chief of Police.Never one to bow to a pressure,Bruno continues his inquiry.During this process he meets a love interest.Featured is the usual emphasis on growing & scavenging for food,on farm to table meals with friends,on sunrise horse back riding,& hiking with dogs.
#DashingThruDecember Day 5: The #LightDisplay we witnessed in Versailles last year was phenomenal and definitely a core memory to last a lifetime.
pickOur French Algerian main character describes the events in her teen years growing up alongside her family‘s hotel on the French Riviera. Sagesse (a beautiful first name) is a devil-may-care teenager, who along with her loud annoying friends, trigger the hotel‘s owner—her grandfather—to confront them with his rifle. While describing the aftermath of that event, Sagesse recounts the history of each family member. The most poignant story involves ⬇️
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About to start watching Ecrire la vie, a documentary about highschoolers' reception of Annie Ernaux's work by scriptwriter and director Claire Simon, before it disappears from the TV replay platform. It's supposed to be good 😁
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Photo is of the Lindt chocolate museum in Cologne!
Here‘s my November #readingwrapup from The StoryGraph. I‘ve decided to step back from ARC reading and just mood read for a while. I‘m happy to be accepted for more ARCs to read even though I‘m behind on them but I‘m not going to be in a hurry to read them any time soon. I‘ll read them when I read them.
“No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.”
HF
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Today‘s read. #ChristmasCrimeChallenge #freechoice #8
pickAccording to the introduction it‘s slightly autobiographical in terms of how the mother treated the daughter in order to seem younger, but I‘m not sure I can follow the author all the way to feeling sorry for the mother and excusing her crime. I finished it not sure how I feel about it. But I‘ve read my October #doublespin now, so there‘s that. @TheAromaofBooks
