THE DINNER | Herman Koch’s “European Gone Girl”

The Dinner a European Gone Girl

With a review from Gillian Flynn (the author of Gone Girl, if for some reason you have been living under a rock and didn’t already know that) on the cover saying “Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable”, I knew I had to read The Dinner by Herman Koch!

How far would you go for someone you love? Is blood really thicker than water? And would you allow your own flesh and blood to be turned over to the police, or would you try to save them?

This book gets you thinking about the extreme… hence the multiple Trader Joe’s dark chocolate peanut butter cups I consumed while reading this book :) Hey, I needed some brain fuel with all those tough questions to answer!

This book contained violence (a whole bunch), plot twists, family feuds, psychopaths, murder, and a plethora of backstabbing, but sadly only gets a 3 out of 5 star rating in my book (pun intended).

Why, you may ask? It was called the “European Gone Girl”! How could the “European Gone Girl” only get 3 stars?

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READING CHALLENGE | Books that have been on my shelf for way too long

reading challenge

I love books, if you haven’t figured out by now. And I’m also an impulse buyer… that’s a bad combo. It means the moment I see a book that looks good I have to buy it! Even if I have 15 other books on my bookshelf and am in the process of reading 2 others…

So, I’m making a rule this month. I can’t buy another book until I finish at least 2 of these 5 that have been gathering dust on my shelf!

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