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If I had a nickel for every september release that‘s set in switzerland, I‘d have three nickles, which ain‘t a lot but it‘s funny it happened thrice. Anyways, hopp schwiiz 🇨🇭

I am not ready for this to be over.

OOOOH THEY SAID THE TITLE OTF THE BOOK (I am completely absorbed into this universe, never take me out of New Haven ever again, I am both looking forward to every new page and at the same time dreading the approaching ending, the fleeting joy of reading a new Alex Stern novel for the first time.)

Pure perfection, I am in (D)awe(s). Cannot wait to finally hold Dead Beat in my hands tomorrow!!

Crawling my way through this, not because it is uninteresting or bad per se, it is, imo, just severely overwritten, and could have been half as long, if not every sentence was made to be as poetic and frilly as possible. (Also, I truly do not care for cars, especially not fast cars, so my bad, I guess).

Hatte mich grad ein bisschen mit der Story angefreundet und dann der Home for christmas slander… aaaaah

Entweder Caro Wahl spielt 4D schach und baut hier eine crazy Satire auf, die die Doppelmoral und Heuchlerei der Industry-woke campaigns etc aufdecken soll, oder sie wollte “woke snowflakes” ragebaiten mit sau schlecht geschriebenen, gottlos dummen Takes… ich glaube es ist zweiteres…

Gerade erst mit dem Hörbuch angefangen.. na, da bin ich mal gespannt was noch so kommt, bisher eher underwhelming.

I am enjoying this so much, but also hoping that the upcoming reveal will not be what was super obvious so far..

Dear members of my book club, we will have a lot to discuss...

First reread of this, first time reading it in english, the writing is amazing.

this might become the funniest book I've ever read, it is certainly on track so far

no I don't think I get it ..

The first story was such a wild ride and I reeeallly liked it. Cannot wait to see what the other stories are like.

Telling (or rather overexplaining) instead of showing is probably what is dragging this book to extreme lengths. how am I still not even close to finished??

Starting to warm up to the characters a little, but how have I been reading this forever and am not even halfway done? I just cannot care enough about men, too stubborn to talk about their trauma and try to get help for themselves, to read about decades of this struggle over hundreds of pages with no real progess or change.

This sentence by Andy pretty much perfectly sums up my feelings towards Jude: "There's something incredibly arrogant about your stubbornnes, Jude. Your utter refusal to listen to anyone about anything that concerns your health or well-being is either a pathological case of self-destructiveness or it's a huge fuck-you to the rest of us."
So far, I am dredging my way through this, it's so male ..

Oh nooo I am on a Rainbow Rowell run again...

So far not much is happening. I am mostly confused because I keep thinking this is set in the early 20th century and then get confused because it is modern in fact.

As a Swiss person, the list of cheese Linzie is buying to make "fondue" is sending me...

It's happening....

"Her goal wasn't the confident expression of her own desires, but self abnegation so profound that it would render her irreplaceable."

Words cannot describe how much this book is resonating with me and how utterly heartbreaking the revelations are.

reread 2026 weil "wie kann sie nur" grad erschienen ist, und ich nicht genug bekommen kann von Passi.

Will I be able to finish this before I am going to see the movie on Wednesday? absolutely not! Will I still kind of believe that I can do it? Absolutely yes.

I have been crawling through this book over the weekend, it is extremely dense with the layered narration and page-long footnotes and I am really looking forward to the more crazy pages where it's less conventional text. So far, I am creeped out and intruiged by the story but the tension is taken relieved every few pages by philosophical an scientific discussions.

The bad puns followed by AN EXPLANATION OF THE BAD PUNS are driving me insane.