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Hotel du Lac — Anita Brookner★★★★★
Original review — 2010
Edith Hope is a reasonably successful writer of romantic fiction who has been exiled to Switzerland, to the Hotel du Lac, by her friends in order to sort out her life.
The hotel is a quietly soph ...more "
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"“Never let anyone tell you that the Luddites were afraid of technology or angry about "progress." That's a lie propagated by history's winners, whose great fortunes required oceans of blood from child laborers, murdered protesters, and enslaved Africans in the "New World" who provided the cotton for their machines.”" — May 02, 2026 08:30AM
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