A great read! The first book I have read in a while that I simply could not put down.Antoine decides to plan a surprise getaway to celebrate hiw sister Melanie's 40th birthday. He chooses a desstination they had travelled to as children on holiday with their family: a destination they have not vi...
Antoine återvänder efter många år till familjens semesterresmål tillsammans med sin syster och börjar nysta i mammans död. En välskriven och finurlig roman där sidorna tycks vända sig av sig självt. Fin-fina personskildringar, flyt i berättandet och en spännande story som inte riktigt landar där ...
Interesting concept. If the book taught me anything, it was how temporary things are and houses are houses, home though is the people that live there. The material world can't be that important. This is a lesson the older generation needs to accept. Rose was a lovely lady. Her story was aptl...
This was a very easy read and written in diary format. This historical fiction takes place in Paris during a 20 year reconstruction process to modernize the city in the late 1800's. It gives a very personal outlook on what it must have been like for the families who lived there at that time. ...
I'm sure there is more to this book than the boring, pretentious protagonist, whose obsession with expensive watches is not only obnoxious, but also dull. This philandering novelist is struggling to write his second book, but he's too full of himself and his newfound money to do much but hang out...
Sarah's Key, the debut novel of Tatiana de Rosnay, was an amazing book. I LOVED it. When I saw that a newer book of hers was available to download and listen to I thought I was pretty darn lucky.I feel terrible saying this, but I think I know why the audio was available to download. I think th...
Unfortunately, I was very disappointed in this book. Perhaps I had set the standard too high for this author, expecting it to be of the same caliber as Sarah's Key. I kept on reading and reading hoping to get more into it, but that never happened. There was no climax. The book was mostly just d...
Okay let me start by saying that I enjoyed this story by the end. That is not to say it was bad or anything I just didn't relate well to the characters. I enjoyed the writing style. Tatiana de Rosnay is quite talented. The story itself takes place over about four days, but I enjoyed the multi...
I loved Sarah's Key and I assumed this would be equally good....boy, was I wrong. None of the characters are even likable, particularly the main character who is an obnoxious jerk. How many times do we need to read about what he does in his "alone time" in the bathroom, if you catch my drift? ...
Een roman over een vrouw die denkt naar een heerlijk appartement te zijn verhuisd met haar man en kinderen, maar die al snel geobsedeerd wordt door de geheimzinnige bovenbuurman, die haar telkens 's nachts wakker wordt met keiharde muziek van Mick Jagger. En alleen als haar man niet thuis is. Doo...
I think the upheaval of 19th century Paris, which occurred when Baron Hausmann was re-designing the city, must have been traumatic for those affected. I would be interested in reading an account that was less tangled up in kind of a - I'm sorry to say - soap-opera like plot. There were many tempt...