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I read about 3/4 of this book but lost interest. I don‘t think it was anything to do with the book more so life has been super busy this last week and I have not had the time to just read read read like normal.
so-soI read about 3/4 of this book but lost interest. I don‘t think it was anything to do with the book more so life has been super busy this last week and I have not had the time to just read read read like normal.
Finished thumbprint. Not my favourite read of the month, but decent all the same. The author's humanity and compassion shines through.
I read the French translation, and although it‘s perfectly serviceable, I am thinking that the English translation is probably better at rendering the various language registers.
And as feared from @Jari-chan 's post, keeping characters' names straight took a bit of effort, but I got there in the end...
so-soLeggero, scorrevole, intrigante anche se molto breve.
Finale forse un pò buttato via..
We begin this week with Matt trolling, Peter vowing to nominate sad books for six months, and end with our annual October tradition of nominating scary books. And as is wont to happen from time to time, we add more than one book this month! Thanks for listening. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sNsVgcQTSifI1E7D9Ec4D
I never new that this novel for children was based on real life events of poor Swiss children who were sold by their parents, left their rural homes and worked as chimney sweepes in Italy. They were chosen because they fitted into the chimneys. I learned this in the Swiss Landesmuseum in Zurich.
pickIf it's a biographical novel or not remains to be seen, but I guess many people can relate. Even if we're not suffering from amnesia, Max Frisch gives us enough vivid pictures to image how it feels like. That we're right in Geiser's mind makes it even more comprehensible and intense. How Frisch built this man's mind with pictures taken from ancient times, mother nature and a dictionary is tremendous.
