pickA quiet coming of age story that kept feeling like it was going to be incredibly special but never quite got there for me.
pickWe follow Istvan from his 15 yrs, first in Hungary then later in London with a short stop in Germany. Istvan is a man that just go with the flow and doesn‘t make any decisions in his own life.
The novel also read more like a series of stories focusing on different part of his life, but missing big events like is marriage day and birth of a child.
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pickI enjoyed this novel and never found it predictable. It was much more than I thought it would be in the end. I did have trouble picking it up. 4 🌟
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pickIt was a coming of age novel. I did not find it special.
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pickA Ukrainian woman seeking to find snails before they become extinct & two sisters participating in the bridal tourism industry meet up & become embroiled in a journey with 13 men they‘ve abducted & placed in their mobile van. In the middle of the story things change, the Russian invasion begins, and the author begins to speak of her ancestry and her feelings about the invasion. Then we return to the story already in progress. A five star read.
It‘s my lunch break and i‘m in a phone room in my office, about to start this book. I finished Love Forms this morning. #booker #Booker2025
so-soI like books that have little or no plot if the writing is good and the characters interesting. Here the prose is good, but focussed on the minutae, the characters interesting but not allowed to shine. The pace is glacial. And the ending is 🤷🏻♀️🫤
I'm left feeling like I've been teased with bits and pieces of a good story, but instead of filling in the gaps Miller has given in to a Knausgardian impulse to describe how people brush their teeth.
Morning all. I‘m in a bit of a book hangover, as I adored Audition by Katie Kitamura. So it‘s hard getting into another book. But this one has a lovely opening. And i‘ll spend part of my morning here.
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I‘m on chapter 3. Everyone seems bewildered trying to understand this one. Little 🧠 primed. #booker #Booker2025
pickMy 2nd from the #Booker longlist
Goodness, I‘m still thinking about this. Our main character, István, fascinates without saying anything. A book of spare prose, raging underneath. I was sucked in, raced through its 350 spare pages in 4 days. You love István, and he‘s awful, and does awful stuff. But suffers awful stuff too without ever a complaint. Just saying, “ok”. And not much else. I‘ll leaven the masculinity stuff off this mini review. ?
