There is a kidnapping and some pretty severe torture happening, though I never really understood why or why Kat is really involved. I think maybe it seemed a bit too far-fetched for me. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as excited by this novel as I was the first. I have read the first book in this series, The Silent Treatment, and I was looking forward to reading the second. Radio silence means no more information and possibly an abrupt end to the game. Though Kat does everything she can to understand the clues and ensure her friend’s safe return, she angers the kidnapper, whose taunting text messages and calls suddenly stop. Almost as soon as they realize they still have feelings for each other, Peter is kidnapped. When Kat Shergill travels to a small town in Germany for a college course, she has no idea she’ll run into Peter, an ex-boyfriend. I received a copy of Exchange in Eichstatt by Melanie Surani in exchange for an honest review. Chick Lit Review Book Review: Exchange in Eichstatt by Melanie Surani
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I've met many young widows and widowers over the past 2 1/2 years, and all of them would agree that the plot of the novel is unrealistic. Some of the issues raised are spot-on, but the level of "healing" and "closure" (both gag-worthy terms to a young widow) that Holly achieves in only a year are ridiculously unrealistic. But I've been widowed for 2 1/2 years right now-I was 27 and my husband 28 when he died-and from a grief standpoint and as representation of a believabe human experience, I only give it a C. And as a nice, sweet novel, it worked.I guess. I'm impressed that Cecilia Ahern was able to imagine the scenario, flush it out, and write an okay novel about it at only 21 years old. I have mixed feelings about both the book and the movie (which is irrelevant, except that it influenced my experience of the book). And the movie changed so much of the book that it made it difficult to settle into the book as an independent, standalone work. I made the mistake of seeing the movie before reading the book, thinking that the book is always better than the movie. What if it does not? Germany in 1923 provides a vivid, compelling, sobering moral tale. Whatever the reason for a country's deficit - necessity or profligacy, unwillingness to tax, or blindness to expenditure - it is beguiling to suppose that if the day of reckoning is postponed economic recovery will come in time to prevent higher unemployment or deeper recession. However, quantitative easing, that modern euphemism for surreptitious deficit financing in an electronic era, can no less become an assault on monetary discipline. Money may no longer be physically printed and distributed in the voluminous quantities of 1923. Germany's finances descended into chaos, with severe social unrest in its wake. People watched helplessly as their life savings disappeared and their loved ones starved. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy.Įxpensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery. We put Biss in conversation with James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son," Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, and Claudia Rankine's Citizen. I themed my courses around race, identity, and narrative, and assigned the Biss essay. I was a white woman at the head of rooms filled with largely Black, Latinx, and Asian students, many of whom worked while in school and had long commutes from the outer boroughs of New York City. At the time, I was an adjunct teaching first-year writing at CUNY Baruch College, which made me acutely aware of my white debt. I kept returning to "White Debt" because I was in awe of how Biss completely reframed whiteness. The essay begins, "The word for debt in German also means guilt." From there, we hopscotch to what Biss is really in debt for-her white privilege, which she has done nothing to earn, and which is easy to forget, be complacent about, and complicit in. A few years ago, I couldn't stop thinking about Eula Biss's New York Times Magazine essay " White Debt." The essay is, in a sense, about literal debt-Biss had recently bought a house with a mortgage-but she immediately takes us beyond the prosaic meaning of the word. Kroll has a number of upcoming projects in various stages of production and development, including film projects Beautiful Bad adapted by Gina Welch and based on the novel by Annie Ward The Feral Detective adapted by Miki Johnson and based on the novel by Jonathan Letham City of Girls adapted by Michelle Ashford and based on the novel by Elizabeth Gilbert 10 based on the 1979 Blake Edwards film and to be produced by Julie Andrews, Ashok Amritraj, and Jeff Nathanson and a film based on Peter Kornbluh’s Politico article, My Dearest Fidel: A Journalist’s Secret Liaison with Fidel Castro, adapted by Dahvi Waller and to be produced by Gal Gadot and Jaron Varsano. Hilderbrand is repped by UTA, InkWell Management, and Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo. Some of her works include the bestselling Paradise trilogy, 28 Summers, The Identicals, The Blue Bistro, The Matchmaker, and the Winter series, among many others. 1 New York Times bestselling author who has written over 25 novels, which have sold over 10 million copies collectively. Studios Move In To Suspend TV Overall Deals Amid WGA Strike |