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The Maid: this book was not good

The Maid by Nita Prose

January 12, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea 4 Comments

mood music: you’re no good – Linda Ronstadt This book contains an offensive depiction of a person who has autism. To be clear, it is never expressly stated that the protagonist, Molly, has autism. She only refers to herself as “different,” and having trouble reading faces and social cues. While I am not neurodivergent, my partner is, and when I read him some excerpts from the book, he found them problematic. Molly Gray is a twenty-something-year-old maid who works at a luxurious hotel in an […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: crime thriller, female lead, hotel, murder mystery, Nita Prose

donttrustthe_bea's CBR16 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: crime thriller, female lead, hotel, murder mystery, Nita Prose ·
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Madeline’s Working-Class Older Brother

Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans

February 15, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Ludwig Bemelmans recalls his time as a waiter at a fabulous hotel in New York City, complete with lots of humor, tragedy, and a cast of colorful coworkers. I picked up this book because I love behind-the-scenes stories, and because I was interested in learning about the fabulous excess of 1920s New York City from a working-class perspective. It was only after I started reading it that I realized that the Bemelmans also wrote the Madeline series, about the little girls who lived “In an […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, #memoir, 1920s, ARC, hotel, Ludwig Bemelmans, NetGalley, New York City, work

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, #memoir, 1920s, ARC, hotel, Ludwig Bemelmans, NetGalley, New York City, work ·
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