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Really really wonderful

Well it’s getting sad now

I started it once before and couldn’t get into it, but I’m really enjoying it now. Probably, in part, because the places and history discussed are somewhat familiar.

I genuinely disdain the people who she works for

It’s taking me a while to get through it. However, it’s very good.

Reading because it was on unlimited and someone else I knew added it to their list. It’s really good so far. Super different topic for me but very insightful

Totally recommend

I like it so far, but it seems as though the plot just changed. I’m a little confused, but it’s a really important book I think. Not much on the experience of children in Eastern Europe during communism.

From my understanding, it’s supposed to be a case against going into medicine, but I’ve liked it a lot so far. Hasn’t convinced me against medicine. If anything it makes me really excited

Such an emotional read.

So good!

Honestly very good. Collection of short stories and I don’t know that I’ve had a favorite. They’re all about how love is demonstrated/felt/ or strained by people. Kind of like the lengths people go for love, and what love really is. Not necessarily romantic, more like a tone of loyalty.

Got it in CPH right when I arrived. The writer is one of the most popular in Denmark. I have another book by her, but haven’t read it (was supposed to as prep for my trip). Anyways, I really like this one so far

I literally turned the page and she is comparing using a bovie to cauterize skin to a concentration camp and human sacrifice. I’m stopping the book here

Honestly super annoyed so far. She’s very “pity me. I’m so lost” and complains on practically every page. For example, she says “I never did figure out why touching one edge of a three-foot table would instantly unsterilize everything by that was in it.” This is her LOOKING BACK as an ACTUAL PHYSICIAN. Kind of an alarming thing to say. Just one of many examples.

Honestly it’s very beautifully written. So many lines have made me stop and think— not even so much because of how they relate to the plot. Just really good stuff

Very casual but interesting! Learned about her live in Spanish lit but this book is making me feel like I know Isabelle Allende personally

Reminds me a lot of Max porter’s book, grief is a thing with feathers. Honestly a fantastic read so far

Some of the most engaging prose I’ve read in a while.

It’s interesting how the narrator navigates serious conversations with his dad, who is seemingly at the end of his life. Just when you think they’ll finally talk, the father becomes incapable. He seems to have a MPD (the dad). It’s also a good depiction of the time between tough conversations — the mundane between storms.

It looks me a few tries to start it but I finally got into it. Really well written. Kind of mundane happenings so far but it’s written poetically to make the norm stand out

It’s really something. Unfortunately, it might be one of those, “iykyk” things, though. It’s about a mother and daughter— mother is terminally ill. At the beginning, the daughter finds out her mom only has about 6m left. But the mom’s illness is never really actualized. It’s about the time between actualized illness and death (or maybe she lives, idk) and what that looks like for her daughter.

I mean, wow. Not something I can relate to in topic, but definitely something I can relate to in tone and feeling. It’s beautifully written and oddly clear for a book written by a grieving parent.

It’s a dark read for sure, but I can’t help but feel for the main character. I imagine it would be a lot to live with the anxiety that she does. Also, a lot of the language she uses sounds a little off, like it was translated wrong or was meant to make the reader feel even more awkward about the main character’s disposition. A good read though… so far!

Fantastic

Awesome. Very comparable to Russian lit— although I believe it’s Turkish lit?! It’s very good.