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I really should show my independent thought and not rank this one. Let’s just say this is the BEST book about QualityLand ever written.
A satire of a near dystopian future. A future so near when this book was written in 2017 that we have already, in 2020, passed it in many ways. LOL funny, true, and totally irreverent. It has a purple dolphin vibrator that lights up – would else could one want.
Oh, another copy that is written in the original language – thanksTheShopAmazon.
A satire of a near dystopian future. A future so near when this book was written in 2017 that we have already, in 2020, passed it in many ways. LOL funny, true, and totally irreverent. It has a purple dolphin vibrator that lights up – would else could one want.
Oh, another copy that is written in the original language – thanks
I have always had a small problem with the basic premise of this story. There were very few children in Auschwitz and it seems impossible that one could visit an unprotected part of the fence every day. Nevertheless this is a well told story from a nine year olds perspective and reminds me of books I read as a child such as "I am David".
It's a well crafted tale that make me think that maybe we should all tell our stories from a childs perspective.
It's a well crafted tale that make me think that maybe we should all tell our stories from a childs perspective.
"..but love paper-aeroplanes where it pleases. I have found that it settles in the most unlikely of places, and once it has, you're left with the burden of where it has landed for the rest of your life."
The three things about Elise are that:
She is Florence’s best Friend.
She always knows the right thing to say and
Well, I instinctively understood the third thing about Elise from the beginning. But some of you may not until the end. And as Flo says it really doesn’t matter much if you know or not. So I will let you find out for yourself at your own pace.
This is a tale of an older persons' assisted living home where the new resident may not be all he appears. Is our main protagonist losing her marbles or is a villain from her past back to torment her?
In her second novel, Joanna Cannon once more brings to life the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
She speaks of the everyday loneliness that makes up so much of our lives and our deep need for human connections.
“The only problem is, I’ve spent so long standing at the edge that when I finally turn away, I doubt there is anyone in this world who will even notice.”
She speaks of how we sometimes patronise and rarely listen to the older generation.
“It was tempting to imagine Jack had arrived on this earth fully fashioned, grey-haired and stooped, and wearing a flat cap; to imagine all of the residents had jumped from birth to senility in one fatal leap.”
She colours our world with beautiful descriptions of the ordinary.
“They will lift me up and carry me down the outside steps, and as they do, I will look out over the town, at the liquid ink of the night and the lights that shine from other people’s lives, and it will seem as though I am flying."
And she does it all with a dash of good humor
“Although I suppose losing your mind can prove quite helpful sometimes, because it does hint there is a possibility, however slim, that you may find it again."
At the heart of the story is a mystery related to Florence’s and Elsie's past. It is not very difficult to guess ( I had gathered more or less what it was from the beginning) and in places, it rather depends a little too much on coincidence. However, the charm in Joanna Cannon’s books is the protagonists finally facing their own guilt and understanding their own pasts and presents for what they truly are.
Recommended for those who loved Joanna’s first novel [b:The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|27276280|The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|Joanna Cannon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1468174334s/27276280.jpg|46094423] and for those who like an older protagonist solving a mystery of her own past such as in [b:Elizabeth Is Missing|18635113|Elizabeth Is Missing|Emma Healey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388883559s/18635113.jpg|24946905]
The three things about Elise are that:
She is Florence’s best Friend.
She always knows the right thing to say and
Well, I instinctively understood the third thing about Elise from the beginning. But some of you may not until the end. And as Flo says it really doesn’t matter much if you know or not. So I will let you find out for yourself at your own pace.
This is a tale of an older persons' assisted living home where the new resident may not be all he appears. Is our main protagonist losing her marbles or is a villain from her past back to torment her?
In her second novel, Joanna Cannon once more brings to life the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
She speaks of the everyday loneliness that makes up so much of our lives and our deep need for human connections.
“The only problem is, I’ve spent so long standing at the edge that when I finally turn away, I doubt there is anyone in this world who will even notice.”
She speaks of how we sometimes patronise and rarely listen to the older generation.
“It was tempting to imagine Jack had arrived on this earth fully fashioned, grey-haired and stooped, and wearing a flat cap; to imagine all of the residents had jumped from birth to senility in one fatal leap.”
She colours our world with beautiful descriptions of the ordinary.
“They will lift me up and carry me down the outside steps, and as they do, I will look out over the town, at the liquid ink of the night and the lights that shine from other people’s lives, and it will seem as though I am flying."
And she does it all with a dash of good humor
“Although I suppose losing your mind can prove quite helpful sometimes, because it does hint there is a possibility, however slim, that you may find it again."
At the heart of the story is a mystery related to Florence’s and Elsie's past. It is not very difficult to guess ( I had gathered more or less what it was from the beginning) and in places, it rather depends a little too much on coincidence. However, the charm in Joanna Cannon’s books is the protagonists finally facing their own guilt and understanding their own pasts and presents for what they truly are.
Recommended for those who loved Joanna’s first novel [b:The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|27276280|The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|Joanna Cannon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1468174334s/27276280.jpg|46094423] and for those who like an older protagonist solving a mystery of her own past such as in [b:Elizabeth Is Missing|18635113|Elizabeth Is Missing|Emma Healey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388883559s/18635113.jpg|24946905]
Even better on the second read, the build-up of suspense chapter by chapter, turn by turn is pitch-perfect to the very dramatic last line.
On a second reading I have more time for both Mrs de Winters and an awful lot less time for Mr de Winter who quite honestly could have prevented the whole mess by swallowing his pride and getting out of the mess years before the novel began. He lacked the balls of the first Mrs. Winters and the steadfastness and loyalty of the second.
My version of the novel has an afterward by Sally Beauman and I shall be revisiting her 2001 expansion of the tale from Rebecca’s point of view next. There are afterall two sides to every tale.
On a second reading I have more time for both Mrs de Winters and an awful lot less time for Mr de Winter who quite honestly could have prevented the whole mess by swallowing his pride and getting out of the mess years before the novel began. He lacked the balls of the first Mrs. Winters and the steadfastness and loyalty of the second.
My version of the novel has an afterward by Sally Beauman and I shall be revisiting her 2001 expansion of the tale from Rebecca’s point of view next. There are afterall two sides to every tale.
