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.
“The planes looked like distant pinpoints at first, and few who saw them took them seriously even up to the moment they dropped their payloads.”
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so-soExtremely well researched book but overly long winded and quite dull at times
pickI‘ve finally got around to reading Le Carre, and it did not disappoint. A murder mystery set in the early 1960s at upper crust school Carne, this felt like a British Raymond Chandler. The scenery, dialogue and characters enjoyable, weaving through the whodunnit entertaining. I only learned today that this is his only book outside of an espionage setting. I‘m not sure I‘d love his others in that case but I‘ll give them a go.
This one is for fun, love me a Slow Horses tale. That is our new pup Goldie playing with hubby in the background. She is a handful being a 1 year old Lab rescue from Kalamazoo SPCA, she came up from Louisiana so experiencing snow for the first time and loves frolicking in the deep parts.
pickApril 2025 Book #4
I enjoyed this book inspired my true events. I was absorbed in the book but also I was searching for some historical events. I like the author‘s writing style. Love the cover. After I finished the book, I bought three more books by this author. Couldn‘t finish them this month but looking forward to read them later. 3.8/4⭐️
pick#weeklyfavorites @Read4life 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃 Loved this weird dark cozy sci-fi! Full of quirky characters, lots of intrigue, and a fantastic setting, this book checked all my boxes.
pickAlways reassuring when a long running series has a particularly good entry in a later volume. As has happened in the past, this one shone not because it was particularly zany (though the comic quality of this series is to be treasured) but because it managed a multi-episode narrative that was semi-serious in tone, and, as has regularly appeared in the series, commentary on how war affects people as individuals.
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pickGiles Milton is a writer and best-selling historian. This very readable and informative book explores Berlin between 1945 and 1950 sets out how the agreement between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference set the seeds for the Berlin Blockade and the Cold War. Extensively footnoted and drawing on personal papers from Colonel Frank Howley it‘s particularly good on the specifics of governing and everyday life in post-war Berlin.
