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Some things are obvious, for other things you know there's just something off and for others you just don't know what hit you when the reveal comes. We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. Deswegen kann ich mit ruhigem Gewissen sagen, dass mich die Geschichte einfach sehr gut unterhalten hat und mich die witzige und vor allem erfrischende Art der Autorin für ein paar Stunden ins Reich der Fantasie schicken konnte. Todestag der berühmten Autorin eine Adaption der Figuren und Motive aus deren Büchern zaubern und greift deshalb die Romane auf.

The Shadow of the Wind and the remarkable success of Carlos

When my husband came to bed and announced "lights off" in the middle of my reading, I had such trouble settling down to sleep that I even ended up dreaming about this book. My reaction: I was on the fence for the first 5 or 6 chapters of this book, but really ended up enjoying it (and polishing it off in a day! I think it would have been much better had the author stuck to Elizabeth and dropped all the Emma related elements. Auch heute lebt und arbeitet sie im Ruhrgebiet, wo sie sich ihrem Studium widmet und ab und an unfassbar schlecht Ballett tanzt – aber nur, wenn niemand hinsieht. Das Setting am Rhein in der Stolzenburg war mal eine schöne Abwechslung und der angenehm lockere Schreibstil lies mich quasi durch die Seiten fliegen und mit Emma Geheimgänge, alte Bibiotheken und Fabelwesen aufspüren.Now that that is out of the way, I am able to mention that false retelling aside, this was a really wonderful book. The reason it feels so much more personal, more romantic somehow, is that most of the time, if you discover something that is forgotten and old, it’s because either you have come across it yourself, or someone has said, ‘You’ve got to read this. The premise of the book that makes whatever is written in it come true was explored in interesting (and sometimes bittersweet) ways.

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Initially I kept trying to figure out which character was supposed to represent which Austen character (as I knew the book was Austen-inspired) and I was seeing all the parallels.It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. I suppose it’s a bit like the film I, Daniel Blake (2016) – I’m a white, middle-class man in the south of England, so I don’t have the experience depicted in that film, and yet I can watch it and immediately understand and see that, yes, things really are that bad for people today. I was okay with the romance but I wasn't crazy about it — while I liked their initial bickering dynamic, I thought it moved quite suddenly to an "Oh, I'm in love with him" realization without a smooth transition.

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