Lime Reviews and Strawberry Confessions.what we have here is a failure to communicate.« Sep Nov » Categories Categories #germanlitmonth American Literature Books British author British Literature Crime Event Fiction French literature German Literature German Literature Month Giveaway Literature Literature and War Readalong Movie Non-fiction Nonfiction Novel Novella Novels Readalong Short Stories Thriller WWI WWII Book Blogs Juan Rulfo: Pedro Páramo (1955) A Classic of Mexican Literature.Love by Angela Carter - A Post A Day in May.Balzac: The Deserted Woman - La Femme abandonnée (1832).Georges Simenon: La chambre bleue - The Blue Room (1963).Shusaku Endo: The Sea and Poison aka Umi to dokuyaku (1958) Literature and War Readalong May.Marguerite Duras: The War - La douleur (1985) Literature and War Readalong April 2017.Annie Ernaux: Une Femme - A Woman's Story (1987).The Turncoat – Der Überläufer by Siegfried Lenz – Literature and War Readalong Meets German Literature Month.Ljudmila Ulitskaya – The Funeral Party (1997).Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of #Quick Reads.The Passenger – Der Reisende (1939) by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz -Literature and War Readalong GLM November 2021.The meals are, invariably, accompanied by bickering and snide remarks. When he wants to punish his sisters, he lets them wait for their dinner or serves something he knows they hate. And since Jasper reigns over the kitchen, together with his formidable cat, he holds a lot of power. They could avoid each other, but no, they always eat together. Thrown together by fate but kept together by some sort of lethargy. The characters behave a lot like characters in one of those hotel novels, we all like so much. The character’s eccentricities and aversions, their feelings of self-importance, made reading this so much fun. These are four, selfish eccentrics who hate each other. Just like the siblings, the pets are at each other’s throat constantly.

They each have a pet, the sisters have dogs, Jasper has a cat. Jasper is one-eyed, April is deaf, May has a hand with only two fingers, and June, the youngest, never went to school because she’s dyslexic. Each of the four characters has a disability. It becomes obvious very soon that this isn’t an entirely realistic novel.

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