![]() It’s hard to go on without spoiling why this book became great. ![]() They became more relevant and more interesting. And somehow the characters’ musings became about life, and love, and missed opportunities, and caring what you do in the world. And then the neighbor died, and someone else moved in who changed everything. It just seems like a lot of musing about nothing particularly interesting. ![]() Honestly, I don’t like philosophy and never have. Nothing was happening, Renee was constantly musing about things I don’t understand or particularly care about, and Paloma was completely doom and gloom about her life and her family. At first it just seemed consumed with philosophy. It’s hard to review a book in which I really disliked the first 100 pages and loved the following 200. ![]() Both of their lives are set on a collision course when one of the upstairs neighbors falls ill and everything in the apartment building begins to change. Upstairs lives a 12-year-old girl named Paloma who has determined to kill herself on her thirteenth birthday because she cannot handle being so disdained and undervalued. She uses her job as a way to hide her vibrant interest in philosophy, books, movies, and beauty. But she cultivates that image, and underneath her purposely plain exterior is a quick, intelligent brain. Renee Michel is, at first glance, a nondescript middle-aged concierge of an apartment building in Paris. ![]()
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