Breakfast with the Borgias
Registered by rastaprincess of Kreuzberg, Berlin Germany on 1/23/2023
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
from amazon: 'Hell is other people.' A chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.
The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world.
Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family. As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.
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Found this book on the books exchange shelves at work. Picked it up to read it during my travels
The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world.
Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family. As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.
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Found this book on the books exchange shelves at work. Picked it up to read it during my travels
Didn't really understand this book, but I guess it was by design. The twist / surprise at the end is great otherwise not quite my cup of tea. Hope the next reader enjoys it more....
Journal Entry 3 by rastaprincess at Cool spot Grace's place in Little Corn Island, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur Nicaragua on Friday, February 24, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (2/23/2023 UTC) at Cool spot Grace's place in Little Corn Island, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur Nicaragua
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Released among other books at the restaurant of this place
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CONGRATULATIONS for finding this book & THANKS for visiting this website!
Feel free to read & keep this book, pass it on to a friend, put it back on a shelf or somewhere else for the next reader.
Please make a journal entry to let me know that you have found the book. For example, you could write where you found it, how you like it, and what you are planning to do with it. You may do it anonymously or you may join (it is anonymous & free). BookCrossing is an online community of book lovers dedicated to sharing books, we are curious to see how far the book will travel and how its readers like it. If you journal this book as a member, you will hear from the book as it travels around. Please consider listing me, rastaprincess, or any other journaller as referring you.
I wish the new reader a happy reading & the book a good trip!!
I found it on the bookshelf at our hotel in Bocas Town. Fast read. Hard to put down. Different from the genre I normally read. Although different, I throughly enjoyed it.
