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De smaak van droef en zoet - Aimee Bender, Ernst de Boer, Ankie Klootwijk
De smaak van droef en zoet
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9789047202851
Publisher: Artemis & Co
Edition language: Dutch
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Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it
4.0 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake ★★★★☆
I first heard about this book while listening to the now-defunct Books on the Nightstand podcast. It was Ann Kingman's recommendation, and I've found her recs to be hit/miss for me, but she was so enthusiastic about it that I put it on my TBR, then promptly put off reading it for almost a decade. I ...
danae
danae rated it
2.5 "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" by Aimee Bender
This is one of three books I've read recently that does not use quotation marks. WHY?? It's so confusing! Especially when the author also breaks the rule of starting a new paragraph when a new person talks and has two people talking, without quotation marks, in the same paragraph! Argh! Stop doing t...
msleighm books
msleighm books rated it
3.5
3.5 stars rounded down. Not sure what to say about this book. The writing was fine; the story was interesting (but strangely, disappointingly, predictable). I don't read a lot of sci-fi and the mystical parts were interesting concepts. I'm really not sure why I didn't like this book more.
Angel's Book Reviews 2.0
Angel's Book Reviews 2.0 rated it
4.0 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE, BY AIMEE BENDEROne of my best friends recommended this one to me, a (really) long time ago. She warned me it was "a bit pretentious", but she still enjoyed it. Maybe it was the warning about pretentiousness that put me off reading it for so long, but I thought i...
moving under skies
moving under skies rated it
2.0 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Oh, what a disappointment of a book. In addition to aggravating formatting issues (lack of quotation marks without a very good reason is always an annoyance), this book had a serious case of plot ambivalence. I wish Bender had just made up her mind about what she wanted her book to be. Is it a full-...
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