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  • Murder Mindfully
    alkaios
    Oct 30, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    Part murder, part mindfulness, part everyone's extreme frustration at the German preschool system.

    A story that from any other characters POV would be a completely different genre. Very witty and funny narration, which I loved (if you don't find it funny you probably won't like this book), that frames much more gruesome and high stakes circumstances.

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    I just finished this and absolutely loved it - I've never read this sort of book before and now I want more like it! Very upset that google says Dusse has written this as a series (meaning there are more books! 🥳) but none of the others have been translated into English 😢 (my German would definitely not be good enough to read a book) so I guess I'll just have to hope that it gets translated at some point 🤞

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    At this point, Sasha is probably my favourite character - he's interesting, funny, and not a complete arsehole (only a violent one). So, yea - most likeable character so far.

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    " Anyone who sweepingly states that all children are great is lying. Your own child, yes, they're the greatest child in the world. And fortunately there's quite a number of other children who seen likeable enough. Quite simply, though, there's a whole bunch of kids that are just arseholes. "

    Just leaving this here because it's relatable and funny (even for someone who doesn't have a kid).

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    I'm really enjoying the tone of the narration so far. It's genuinely funny and I like the little extracts from Breitner's book and how they set up the chapters - the concept of mindfulness is a fun juxtaposition to Björn's thought process. Definitely excited to see how this plays out

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