en-US Mon, 12 May 2025 16:24:39 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 65502618 In this irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning and bestselling Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex and family disaster into brilliant comedy reminiscent of Fleabag and Natalia Ginzburg’s Family Lexicon

Already a bestseller and award winner in Italy, Lost on Me is a burningly witty novel of a young woman’s coming of age in a neurotic family from one of Italy’s most celebrated young writers working today.

Born into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the center of their attention, our heroine Vero languishes in boredom in her childhood home. Peering through tiny windows at children in the streets below while cramped in her family coven, Vero periodically attempts to strike out but is no match for her mother’s relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery. Vero’s every venture outside their Rome apartment ends in her being unceremoniously returned home. It’s no wonder then that she becomes a writer - and a liar � inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.

Spikey and clever, Vero delights in her own devious schemes. As she guides us through her failed attempts at emancipation, her discovery of sex and fixations with unwitting men, and ultimately her contentious relationship with reality, she also brings alive Rome from the 1980s through the early 2000’s. With restless intelligence and covert tenderness Veronica Raimo takes the traditional family novel tropes and flips them inside out. Pointed, feisty, and pulsing with energy, Lost on Me takes on the uncertain enterprise of becoming a woman.]]> 224 Veronica Raimo 0802162045 Alonso 4 3.55 2022
author: Veronica Raimo
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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Funny and very insightful novel about family dynamics and what it’s like to have the need for writing
]]> 39961995 Una joya de la literatura contemporánea de la gran Elena Ferrante.

«Un mediodía de abril, justo después de comer, mi marido me anunció que quería dejarme. Lo dijo mientras quitábamos la mesa...»

Todo cambia en la vida de Olga cuando, después de quince años de matrimonio, Mario la abandona por una jovencita. Sola con sus dos hijos, el mundo en apariencia perfecto de la mujer se desmorona. Atrapada entre las cuatro paredes del piso que antes llamaba hogar, Olga no duerme, no come y casi no se reconoce: quien está al otro lado del espejo cuando se mira por la mañana es una mujer que ha perdido todos sus atributos y tendrá que buscar otras palabras que la definan y le permitan seguir adelante.

Leyendo "Los días del abandono" nos convertimos en testigos de una caída libre hacia la desolación, un lugar donde ya nada tiene sentido, pero como en todos los buenos libros, también en este «thriller del alma» cabe la sorpresa, y el abandono puede abrir puertas que antes eran muros.]]> 224 Elena Ferrante 8426405274 Alonso 4
Es una lectura intensa y confrontante. La forma en que Ferrante explora los ±ôí³¾¾±³Ù±ð²õ del dolor emocional y la identidad es brutal y adictiva. Olga es un personaje lleno de matices, -y la trama no se queda atrás- que se mueve entre el suspenso psicológico y una realidad muy palpable. Un libro redondo, ferozmente honesto y, sin duda, muy recomendable.]]> 3.82 2002
author: Elena Ferrante
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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‘Los días del abandono� es el segundo libro de Elena Ferrante que leo y estoy seguro de que no será el último que lea este año. Hay algo en su estilo directo, descarnado y profundamente humano que me ha atrapado desde la primera página y que ha hecho que quiera leerme toda su bibliografía lo más pronto posible.

Es una lectura intensa y confrontante. La forma en que Ferrante explora los ±ôí³¾¾±³Ù±ð²õ del dolor emocional y la identidad es brutal y adictiva. Olga es un personaje lleno de matices, -y la trama no se queda atrás- que se mueve entre el suspenso psicológico y una realidad muy palpable. Un libro redondo, ferozmente honesto y, sin duda, muy recomendable.
]]> 60616148 Un romanzo potentissimo, che incanta e commuove, sulla forza struggente della vita.]]> 304 Sandro Veronesi 1474617484 Alonso 4 3.78 2019
author: Sandro Veronesi
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/05/01
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Intense and nostalgic, a very moving story with a very personable main character
]]> 199584195 "Una novela sobre la cara más oscura de la amistad, los complicados caminos del deseo y las miserias domésticas. Claustrofóbica e intensa".

Pilar Quintana

Después de terminar con su pareja y tirar a la basura las posibilidades de un buen estatus migratorio, Silvia recurre a los únicos amigos que le quedan. Así aterriza con el corazón roto en el sofá cama de Javier y Teresa, y a cambio del hospedaje pacta con la pareja hacer el aseo del pequeño apartamento en el que viven. Este acuerdo los confrontará con aquello que creen desear. Entre las cajas de los regalos de bodas sin desempacar y los días anodinos de invierno, se va tejiendo en el trío una tensión que perturbará los ±ôí³¾¾±³Ù±ð²õ del trabajo y el sexo, a tal punto que será imposible para el lector quitarles los ojos de encima. Con una mirada punzante, la narradora de este libro perfila la complejidad de tres jóvenes adultos que se encuentran en medio de la estrechez de un mundo tan despiadado como banal.



Llena de ritmo y belleza, Contradeseo confirma a Gloria Susana Esquivel como una de las narradoras colombianas más interesantes del panorama actual. Una novela para leer con el mismo afán impúdico con que sus personajes transitan los caminos del deseo.



La crítica ha dicho...



"Contradeseo es una novela punzante y claustrofóbica que narra las ansiedades de futuro de un personaje atrapado en las tram pas del amor romántico y de una vida precarizada, y que busca desesperadamente salir de lo que parece un simulacro". Alia Trabucco Zerán



"Con destellos luminosos y turbadores, Contradeseo construye una atmósfera car gada de símbolos. Una atmósfera eléctrica. Gloria Susana Esquivel logra una especie de novela de formación, que termina por desnudar la precariedad real de la clase media y lo pesadillezco de las vidas simuladas que propone Estados Unidos. Con maestría, nos seduce hacia un torbellino inquietante y bello. Los lectores encontrarán en Silvia un personaje fascinante al que querrán salvar y al mismo tiempo sacudir. Porque en el fondo hemos sido Silvia y hemos transitado la hostilidad del mundo con la candidez pendeja de los veinte años". Laura Ortiz Gómez



"La escritura de Gloria Susana es exquisita, envuelve, toma de la mano y al mismo tiempo sorprende, una y otra vez, con su maestría y poderosas imágenes". Amalia Andrade



"El milagro estético de generar un mundo propio a través de las palabras se materializa en manos de autores con la habilidad y el talento de Gloria Susana Esquivel, que consigue hacer de episodios genéricos fábulas desbordadas y encantadoras". Margarita García Robayo]]> 194 Gloria Susana Esquivel 6287638222 Alonso 4 3.76
author: Gloria Susana Esquivel
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.76
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rating: 4
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Interesante retrato de la experiencia migrante, los juegos de poder entre amigos, los sueños que se vuelven planes
]]> 220075119 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781922790897.

They have everything to make them happy. Expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment. Young, cool digital creatives, they enjoy slow cooking, Danish furniture, progressive politics, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene.

It’s exactly the life they had imagined for themselves. But they begin to feel disillusioned, bored. Work becomes repetitive. Friends move away, have children, grow up. An attempt at political activism proves fruitless, since their direct action amounts to taking an Uber only if it is snowing, tipping in cash, never eating tuna.

Trapped in a lifestyle optimised for digital perfection, yearning for authenticity, they find themselves doing something they could never have predicted.

Vincenzo Latronico’s stylistic mastery, wit and wry humour make Perfection a brilliant novel about contemporary life.]]> 160 Vincenzo Latronico Alonso 4
The story follows Tom and Anna, and it’s a must-read for anyone who wants to understand this generation. It’s sharp, revealing, and familiar, and it’ll leave you thinking long after you’ve finished it.]]> 3.64 2022
author: Vincenzo Latronico
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/21
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Vecenzo Latronico’s ‘Perfection� is a masterpiece! It’s a short story that’s full of beautiful images and deep truths about the ‘social media� generation.

The story follows Tom and Anna, and it’s a must-read for anyone who wants to understand this generation. It’s sharp, revealing, and familiar, and it’ll leave you thinking long after you’ve finished it.
]]> 34150151 El tsunami Legna, una nueva y poderosa voz que llega de Cuba con un estilo radical y moderno que no se parece a ninguno, nos habla del sexo, el amor, la politica y la vida cotidiana en Cuba como nunca antes se habia hablado. Que supone abandonar el pais de origen? Que supone volver? Escribir? Robar? Mentir? Traicionar? Matar, si es necesario?

Las historias interconectadas que conforman este libro exploran contradicciones de la vieja y la nueva Cuba, donde politica, cultura, familia, amor, sexo y burocracia se entremezclan para formar un universo complejo e implacable.

Una mujer asesinada por su marido tras una infidelidad, una chica que, tal vez, padece una enfermedad de transmision sexual, un perro que cuenta la vida de su duena, sus amores y sus rupturas. Estos son algunos de los protagonistas de este libro, una constelacion de seres heterogeneos que luchan por escapar de las limitaciones que les plantea su vida: todos los secretos y las mentiras, la omnipresente violencia, un dolor no diagnosticado e inaguantable y el miedo a ser objeto de una venganza.

Con Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog frances, Legna Rodriguez Iglesias ha creado una obra valiente y libre, hilarante y profunda al mismo tiempo, que narra la lucha que todos emprendemos para revelar al mundo nuestra verdadera esencia, aquello que somos por encima de cualquier cosa, aunque procuren impedirnoslo.

Critica:
Transgresora, irreverente, excentrica, un monstruo de desenfado [...], Legna es tambien una gran trabajadora de las palabras: estas pueden ser caprichosas, risuenas, misteriosas y sobre todo fragiles.
Yoandi Cabrera, Diario de Cuba

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The "tsunami Legna," a new and powerful voice from Cuba with a radical, modern style unlike any other, talks to us about sex, love, politics, and daily life in Cuba like it has never been discussed.

What does leaving your homeland entail? How about returning? Writing? Stealing? Lying? Betraying? Killing, if necessary? The interconnected stories that make up this book explore contradictions in old Cuba and new Cuba, where politics, culture, family, love, sex, and bureaucracy intermix to make a complex, implacable universe. A woman killed by her husband after an infidelity, a girl who might be suffering from a sexually transmitted disease, a dog who tells about the life of his master, her loves and her breakups. These are some of the protagonists in this book, a constellation of heterogeneous beings fighting to escape the limitations that their lives impose: all the secrets and lies, the omnipresent violence, an undiagnosed and unbearable pain, and the fear of being the subject of vengeance. With My Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog, Legna Rodriguez Iglesias has created a brave, free piece, hilarious and deep at the same time, that narrates the struggle that we all undertake to reveal to the world our true essence, what we are above all else, despite all those who try to stop us. "Rule-breaking, irreverent, eccentric, a monster of aplomb [...] Legna is also a great worker of words: they can be whimsical, smiling, mysterious, and above all, fragile." -Yoandi Cabrera, Diario de Cuba]]> 168 Legna Rodríguez Iglesias 8420429627 Alonso 2 3.33 2017
author: Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2017
rating: 2
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Bastante meh� no logré engancharme con los relatos de este libro. Pero se lee rápido y está corto
]]> 16525 433 Isabel Allende 9871138857 Alonso 5 4.39 1994
author: Isabel Allende
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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El libro más conmovedor del mundo
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Attempting to come to terms with it, he creates the Soundloft, a device that turns dreams into music. Helping him out are three of his best friends - Cantona, a promising Bangladeshi artist on the run from a construction company; Tights, a Chinese illegal immigrant with a pop culture fascination; and Shanti, a gifted lab technician hiding from her abusive husband.

But when a powerful metaphysical entity begins haunting them, looking to find her way in the world of the living, he and his friends find themselves embroiled in a supernatural showdown that will result in either cartharsis, or the end of the world.]]> 328 Suffian Hakim 9811140243 Alonso 2
The characters are a bit cartoonish and feel flat, which surprised me. With a title like ‘The Minorities,� I expected a deeper exploration of what it means to be part of a minority or a migrant. Apart from the prologue and a few pretentious lines here and there, it touches on these themes in ways that feel stereotypical at best. I even found the character Tights to be a rather racist portrayal of Chinese migrants. On top of that, the plot is filled with ghostly figures and random details that just pop up out of nowhere to move things along—it’s hard to follow and even harder to believe.

So� why did I finish it? Because it’s so easy to read. The author knows how to keep a plot moving, and every time I sat down to read a page or two, I’d look up and realise I’d read 60. (Mostly while rolling my eyes, yes—but still turning pages!)
]]> 3.55
author: Suffian Hakim
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.55
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rating: 2
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The writing style is solid, and the premise is interesting. But the execution is a bit messy. The biggest problem for me was the tone. Is it horror? Fantasy? Satire? Comedy? I couldn’t tell at all.

The characters are a bit cartoonish and feel flat, which surprised me. With a title like ‘The Minorities,� I expected a deeper exploration of what it means to be part of a minority or a migrant. Apart from the prologue and a few pretentious lines here and there, it touches on these themes in ways that feel stereotypical at best. I even found the character Tights to be a rather racist portrayal of Chinese migrants. On top of that, the plot is filled with ghostly figures and random details that just pop up out of nowhere to move things along—it’s hard to follow and even harder to believe.

So� why did I finish it? Because it’s so easy to read. The author knows how to keep a plot moving, and every time I sat down to read a page or two, I’d look up and realise I’d read 60. (Mostly while rolling my eyes, yes—but still turning pages!)

]]> 63236786
Whale, set in a remote village in South Korea, follows the lives of many linked characters, including Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle.

Brimming with surprises and wicked humor, Whale is an adventure-satire of epic proportions by one of the most original voices in international literature.]]> 368 Cheon Myeong-Kwan 1787704335 Alonso 3
Geumbok starts out as a poor village girl but becomes a successful entrepreneur, seizing opportunities in a fast-changing capitalist world. Meanwhile, Chunhui’s immense size and strength make her stand out, but her inability to speak leaves her vulnerable in an increasingly harsh society. The novel introduces many side characters, which add richness to the story but sometimes slow down the pacing, making parts of it feel like separate short stories rather than a cohesive novel.

Cheon blends satire and magical realism, creating a book that’s both funny and unsettling. While the book was surprisingly captivating, I found it challenging to fully embrace its unique style. This made it feel like a dark tale with s3xu4l 4ss4ults presented in a detached, almost emotionless fairy tale style (but what can we expect from a straight man writing about such sensitive topics, right?). I don’t regret reading it, but I struggled to fully connect with the story.]]> 3.79 2004
author: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/29
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Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwang is a multi-generational story about Geumbok, a gifted businesswoman, and her daughter Chunhui, who is physically extraordinary but unable to speak. Their lives unfold alongside a mix of eccentric characters, all set against South Korea’s rapid transformation after the Korean War.

Geumbok starts out as a poor village girl but becomes a successful entrepreneur, seizing opportunities in a fast-changing capitalist world. Meanwhile, Chunhui’s immense size and strength make her stand out, but her inability to speak leaves her vulnerable in an increasingly harsh society. The novel introduces many side characters, which add richness to the story but sometimes slow down the pacing, making parts of it feel like separate short stories rather than a cohesive novel.

Cheon blends satire and magical realism, creating a book that’s both funny and unsettling. While the book was surprisingly captivating, I found it challenging to fully embrace its unique style. This made it feel like a dark tale with s3xu4l 4ss4ults presented in a detached, almost emotionless fairy tale style (but what can we expect from a straight man writing about such sensitive topics, right?). I don’t regret reading it, but I struggled to fully connect with the story.
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En Medea me cantó un corrido encontramos seis magistrales relatos interconectados entre sí, al ya muy particular y distintivo estilo de la autora. Las protagonistas y narradoras son en su mayoría mujeres que dentro de realidades sumamente complicadas y violentas encuentran la forma de labrarse su propio destino, atrapadas entre el fuego cruzado de la violencia del narco y el ejército, o de padres o parejas machistas con todos los habituales arquetipos de los celos y demás. Sin embargo, en esta ocasión contarán con la providencial ayuda del personaje mitológico de Medea, quien acude en su auxilio para hacerles compañía, aconsejarlas o incluso ayudarlas a abortar.

Se trata de una obra de gran calado, que sin duda continuará encontrando el favor de miles de lectoras y lectores, que en muy poco tiempo han encumbrado a De la Cerda como una autora de referencia en las letras mexicanas contemporáneas.]]> 110 Dahlia de la Cerda 6078895796 Alonso 5 Este libro es inteligente, crítico, irreverente, emotivo, lleno de vida y mucha muerte. Es una oda al feminismo, un homenaje a las madres buscadoras de los desaparecidos en México; una mentada de madre con mucha dignidad y clase al narcoestado.
Una joya literaria.]]> 4.34 2024
author: Dahlia de la Cerda
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/20
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Llevaba mucho queriendo leer a Dahlia de la Cerda y que manera tan chingona de conocer su trabajo con Medea me cantó un corrido.
Este libro es inteligente, crítico, irreverente, emotivo, lleno de vida y mucha muerte. Es una oda al feminismo, un homenaje a las madres buscadoras de los desaparecidos en México; una mentada de madre con mucha dignidad y clase al narcoestado.
Una joya literaria.
]]> 218329604 «Así fue como renunciamos al horizonte.»

Grijalva es una reportera en un mundo que ha retrocedido. A mediados del siglo XXI, la Tierra ha adquirido anillos similares a los de Saturno tras un cataclismo que extinguió la luz eléctrica y fundió el alma de transistores y circuitos de todos los aparatos en los que la humanidad se sustentaba.

Acompañada por su hijastro, Grijalva viaja a Tamarindo, un pueblo en Veracruz donde los niños padecen una raraenfermedad: hablan y se comportan como personas distintas a las que son o las que eran, ±è´Ç²õ±ðí»å´Ç²õ por historias lejanas y dolorosas. Los indicios de que el delirio puede ser contagioso —y perturbador para las autoridadesâ€� vuelven apremiante la búsqueda de una explicación. Conforme avanza la pesquisa, el relato nos irá revelando qué ocurrió con el planeta veinte años atrás, cuando Grijalva era una estudiante de música enamorada de su maestra, y su padre, una emanación digital en un minucioso mundo virtual.

Todo lo que amamos y dejamos atrás es mucho más que una asombrosa novela de ciencia ficción. Con un lenguaje íntimo y exacto, Elisa de Gortari ha escrito la historia de uno de nuestros posibles naufragios, pero también, y sobre todo, la secreta carta de amor a todas las cosas que nos dan desde la música y la poesía, hasta el fulgor de las primeras veces y las diversas, en ocasiones arduas, formas de cuidarnos y querernos.]]> 296 Elisa de Gortari 6073851154 Alonso 3
La novela de Elisa de Gortari es asombrosa. Su prosa combina imágenes poéticas con un lenguaje coloquial lleno de mexicanismos, creando un contraste fascinante al retratar un mundo postapocalíptico. Aunque en algunos momentos la trama me resultó confusa, me encantó cómo usa la ciencia ficción para contar una historia de amor filial conmovedora y con una mirada única.]]> 4.16
author: Elisa de Gortari
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.16
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No suelo leer ciencia ficción, pero el título de este libro me atrapó. Cuando supe que lo escribió una autora queer mexicana y que la historia transcurre en Veracruz, supe que tenía que leerlo. Rara vez este género se explora desde una perspectiva queer y latinoamericana, y esperaba encontrar algo fresco y diferente. No me equivoqué.

La novela de Elisa de Gortari es asombrosa. Su prosa combina imágenes poéticas con un lenguaje coloquial lleno de mexicanismos, creando un contraste fascinante al retratar un mundo postapocalíptico. Aunque en algunos momentos la trama me resultó confusa, me encantó cómo usa la ciencia ficción para contar una historia de amor filial conmovedora y con una mirada única.
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The Burrow tells an unforgettable story about grief and hope. With her characteristic compassion and eye for detail, Melanie Cheng reveals the lives of others—even of a small rabbit.]]> 190 Melanie Cheng 1922791970 Alonso 4 Through the novel, we get to know Jin, the overworked doctor; Amy, the struggling author; Lucie, their shy 10-year-old; and Pauline, the grandmother looking for redemption. After Ruby’s tragic accident, they adopt a rabbit, hoping it will bring some joy back into their lives.

I really loved how each chapter is told from a different character’s point of view, I thought it provides a deeper look into their feelings and shows the tensions and unspoken pain between them. What really stood out to me about Cheng’s writing is how she turns everyday moments into something so meaningful, finding beauty and nostalgia in the simplest things. Her writing is just gorgeous, and I felt the empathy she has for her characters.

Even though The Burrow is under 200 pages, it packs a punch. It’s a quiet yet powerful read that will stick with me for a long time.
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author: Melanie Cheng
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/11
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The Burrow by Melanie Cheng is a beautiful story about the Lee family, who are dealing with the loss of Ruby, their youngest, in their quiet Melbourne neighbourhood during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through the novel, we get to know Jin, the overworked doctor; Amy, the struggling author; Lucie, their shy 10-year-old; and Pauline, the grandmother looking for redemption. After Ruby’s tragic accident, they adopt a rabbit, hoping it will bring some joy back into their lives.

I really loved how each chapter is told from a different character’s point of view, I thought it provides a deeper look into their feelings and shows the tensions and unspoken pain between them. What really stood out to me about Cheng’s writing is how she turns everyday moments into something so meaningful, finding beauty and nostalgia in the simplest things. Her writing is just gorgeous, and I felt the empathy she has for her characters.

Even though The Burrow is under 200 pages, it packs a punch. It’s a quiet yet powerful read that will stick with me for a long time.

]]> 58514302
Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape.

Named one of 2016’s most influential people by TIME Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize-winner, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world’s most read and beloved writers. With this new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades. In The Lying Life of Adults,/i>, readers will discover another gripping, highly addictive, and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story.]]> 322 Elena Ferrante 1787703126 Alonso 4 This book is intense and sometimes uncomfortable, but it perfectly captures the chaos of being a teenager. Ferrante writes about that moment when you start seeing adults as flawed and messy, and she does it in such a real and honest way. Some parts were tough to read—there’s grooming and violence—but the characters feel so raw and complicated, full of contradictions like real people. Their relationships shift between love and resentment, trust and betrayal, making the story feel even more powerful.
As my first Ferrante book, this was an unforgettable read. Her writing pulls you in, and I already know I’ll be reading more of her work soon!]]> 3.73 2019
author: Elena Ferrante
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/07
date added: 2025/03/07
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I can’t believe it took me this long to read Elena Ferrante! I’d heard so much about her books and even watched a movie based on one of them, but for some reason, I never picked one up—until now. The Lying Life of Adults was my first, and I was hooked from the start.
This book is intense and sometimes uncomfortable, but it perfectly captures the chaos of being a teenager. Ferrante writes about that moment when you start seeing adults as flawed and messy, and she does it in such a real and honest way. Some parts were tough to read—there’s grooming and violence—but the characters feel so raw and complicated, full of contradictions like real people. Their relationships shift between love and resentment, trust and betrayal, making the story feel even more powerful.
As my first Ferrante book, this was an unforgettable read. Her writing pulls you in, and I already know I’ll be reading more of her work soon!
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Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141189918]]> 150 William S. Burroughs Alonso 2 3.39 1985
author: William S. Burroughs
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.39
book published: 1985
rating: 2
read at: 2024/10/11
date added: 2025/02/19
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I really wanted to like this one, but I found the main character very unlikeable and a bit cringey. The plot wasn’t very clear and didn’t seem to go anywhere. And there’s too much dialogue (why didn’t he write a play instead?) I did like the descriptions and references of Mexico City and reading some Spanish words in it.
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Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--"one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure."

Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a coyote hired to lead them to safety, Javier's trip is supposed to last two short weeks.

At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, living under the same roof again. He does not see the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.

A memoir by an acclaimed poet that reads like a novel, Solito not only provides an immediate and intimate account of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier's story, but it's also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.]]> 381 Javier Zamora Alonso 4 4.32 2022
author: Javier Zamora
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.32
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rating: 4
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A very powerful memoir. Very well written and very necessary in this moment of time
]]> 217908942 Once they were just them. Now they’re forty-something and there’s kids. Whose time is this?

Phil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone at his parent’s house on the coast. But he is lonely, and stupidly he’s invited a bunch of old friends to visit. It’s bound to be a mistake. All those children! But it’s too late now, and tomorrow Bella and Tim will arrive with their two kids, one on the brink of puberty, and the next day Jo and Lucas will come too, with their little one. Then there’s Annie, who will be by herself.

The story of a beach holiday told by four different people, Time Together is a novel about different kinds of love, different kinds of loneliness, and the way spending time together can bring out the best and worst in each other.]]> 242 Luke Horton 1761386131 Alonso 3 3.36 2025
author: Luke Horton
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2025
rating: 3
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I loved how the novel delves into the inner worlds of its characters—how their relationships, insecurities, and assumptions shape the way they see themselves and each other. It’s a character-driven novel, portraying grief, depression, and jealousy in a way that feels layered, human, and deeply relatable.
]]> 217046515 322 Angela Savage 1760993247 Alonso 3
I loved Alice Pung’s short story, it was so hilarious; the one from Tsiolkas, but he’s a masterful writer.
The Padam, Padam story is also beautiful.

Overall, it’s an enjoyable anthology that captures the essence of Kylie Minogue]]> 3.19
author: Angela Savage
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.19
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It has really good texts (the non fiction ones are great), but most of the poems are cheesy and some of the stories are basic AF (cough, cough Holden Sheppard)

I loved Alice Pung’s short story, it was so hilarious; the one from Tsiolkas, but he’s a masterful writer.
The Padam, Padam story is also beautiful.

Overall, it’s an enjoyable anthology that captures the essence of Kylie Minogue
]]> 219344113
A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt.

Cairo, 1980s. Tarek's whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is well respected in society.
When he opens a clinic in a disadvantaged area of the city, he meets Ali, a young man who is free from the societal pressures that govern Tarek’s life. This chance encounter will change everything, throwing Tarek’s marriage, career and his entire existence into question.

From bustling Cairo to the harsh winters of Montréeacute;al, from the reign of Nasser to the dawn of a new century, Tarek wanders and reminisces.

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, someone is compiling the chapters of his story . . .]]> 256 Éric Chacour 191354785X Alonso 3
The writing style is stunning. The first half felt like a simmering broth: rich with subtle character conflicts, historical depth, and twists that unfold naturally. However, in the second half, the story spices things up with a few clichés and veers into melodrama, which I felt undercut the complexity of the story. Still, the prose remains poetic, and the narrative kept me engaged from start to finish.]]> 4.11 2023
author: Éric Chacour
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/25
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It gave me Brokeback Mountain meets Call Me by Your Name vibes—and, for the most part, it didn’t disappoint.

The writing style is stunning. The first half felt like a simmering broth: rich with subtle character conflicts, historical depth, and twists that unfold naturally. However, in the second half, the story spices things up with a few clichés and veers into melodrama, which I felt undercut the complexity of the story. Still, the prose remains poetic, and the narrative kept me engaged from start to finish.
]]> 63217355
El ocho de noviembre de 1519 se produce el encuentro entre Cortés y Moctezuma, a quien nadie puede mirar directamente a la cara si él no le da primero su permiso. Es el encuentro entre dos mundos, dos imperios, dos idiomas, dos cosmovisiones.

¿Qué sucedió? ¿Qué pudo suceder? ¿Dónde acaba la verdad y empieza la leyenda? ¿Cómo abordar la historia desde la ficción? �lvaro Enrigue ha escrito una poderosa narración: una versión posible del encuentro que cambió la historia del mundo, una novela envuelta en misterios, violencia, ansias de poder y sueños que han sido imperios.]]> 232 �lvaro Enrigue 6075576746 Alonso 4
Pero lo que más me encantó fue cómo el autor humaniza a figuras que muchas veces sentimos lejanas o rígidas. Moctezuma y Cortés, con sus debilidades, pasiones y hasta echándose un viaje de hongos (jajajajajaja), se sienten vivos, cercanos.

Creo que este libro debería ser lectura obligatoria en todas las clases de historia de México. Es inteligente, entretenido y da una nueva perspectiva sobre un momento crucial. ]]> 4.06 2022
author: �lvaro Enrigue
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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Me gustó la forma en cómo se combina el humor con el contexto histórico. El libro está lleno de descripciones sensoriales maravillosas: puedes casi oler a los personajes, sentir el peso de las telas que visten y saborear los manjares que los mexicas le preparan a los españoles.

Pero lo que más me encantó fue cómo el autor humaniza a figuras que muchas veces sentimos lejanas o rígidas. Moctezuma y Cortés, con sus debilidades, pasiones y hasta echándose un viaje de hongos (jajajajajaja), se sienten vivos, cercanos.

Creo que este libro debería ser lectura obligatoria en todas las clases de historia de México. Es inteligente, entretenido y da una nueva perspectiva sobre un momento crucial.
]]> 58556597 Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.

But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results.

Like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.]]> 386 Bonnie Garmus 0857528130 Alonso 4 A very feminist book that shows a lot of the awful things women have endured over the years without revictimising them. ]]> 4.19 2022
author: Bonnie Garmus
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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Really surprised of how deep and complex this book turned out to be, while still being engaging, easy-to-read and entertaining.
A very feminist book that shows a lot of the awful things women have endured over the years without revictimising them.
]]> 12994927
Premio Jaén de Novela 2011]]> 208 Julián Herbert 8439725604 Alonso 0 to-read 4.02 2011
author: Julián Herbert
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 217514647
But the reality of his life was much more complicated than the constraints of a three-minute pop song.
In Unlovable, for the first time, Darren recounts the events and circumstances that shaped his unique from childhood trauma and his journey with depression, to the dizzying heights of worldwide fame in Savage Garden, and everything in between.

Told in his own lyrical words, Unlovable is a magical dark fairytale that reclaims the terrors and obstacles of his past to reveal the fabulous artist he has become.]]> 378 Darren Hayes 176134191X Alonso 4 4.62
author: Darren Hayes
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.62
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Darren’s story moved me immensely. Learning about the battles he faced—on so many fronts—gave me even more admiration for him, his career, and his incredible gift for expressing vulnerability in such a powerful way. On a technical note, his writing is stunning. His metaphors are vivid and a testament to why he’s such a brilliant songwriter. This memoir is a must-read for any Savage Garden fan—it’s as heartfelt and inspiring as his music.
]]> 50245872 324 Enrique Serna 6070733487 Alonso 3 No se si la sátira sea la mejor forma de hablar de un tema tan delicado, pero estoy consciente que el libro se escribió hace más de 14 años y debió ser muy transgresor en su momento.
El final es un poco apresurado, pero Serna es un gran narrador y utiliza muy bien el lenguaje para dar una voz propia a cada uno de los protagonistas de esta novela.]]> 4.05 2010
author: Enrique Serna
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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Una novela interesante que a través de la sátira hace una crítica al machismo, la violencia de género y la masculinidad tóxica, y la forma en que estos son la causa de la misógina.
No se si la sátira sea la mejor forma de hablar de un tema tan delicado, pero estoy consciente que el libro se escribió hace más de 14 años y debió ser muy transgresor en su momento.
El final es un poco apresurado, pero Serna es un gran narrador y utiliza muy bien el lenguaje para dar una voz propia a cada uno de los protagonistas de esta novela.
]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Alonso 0 to-read 4.37 2021
author: John Green
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2021
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]]> 217494743 For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters during a heatwave in London as simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over one life-changing weekend.

London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record, and a whale is stuck in the Thames River. In the streets of the city, four old acquaintances want more from life than they’ve been given. On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, their paths will intersect at a party that will change their lives forever�

Maggie, a once-hopeful artist turned waitress, is pregnant and preparing to move back to her hometown with her boyfriend and father-to-be Ed, leaving the city she loves and the life she imagined for herself.

Ed, coasting through life as a barely competent bike courier, is ready for a new start with Maggie and their baby, if only to finally leave behind his secret past of hooking up with strange men in train station bathrooms—and his secret past with Maggie’s best friend, Phil.

Phil, who sleepwalks through his office job and lives for the weekends, is on the brink of achieving his first real relationship with his roommate Keith. The two live in an illegal warehouse commune with other quirky creatives and idealists—the site of the party to end all parties.

As the temperature continues to climb, Maggie, Ed, and Phil will have to confront their shared pasts, current desires, and limits of their future lives together before the weekend is over.

Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna’s addictive, page-turning debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a critical look at the political, emotional, and financial hurdles facing young adults trying to build lives there and often living for their evenings and weekends.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý]]> 344 Oisín McKenna 0008604185 Alonso 5
It’s a novel where not much happens, yet everything does: life happens. I could’ve read a hundred more pages.

Vibrant, chaotic, and deeply human, it’s like a queer Sally Rooney but vibrant. Highly recommend!]]> 4.01 2024
author: Oisín McKenna
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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This novel is packed with heart and emotional depth. The characters feel so real, their stories made me cry.

It’s a novel where not much happens, yet everything does: life happens. I could’ve read a hundred more pages.

Vibrant, chaotic, and deeply human, it’s like a queer Sally Rooney but vibrant. Highly recommend!
]]> 200555888
In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy’s life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami.

In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind.

He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he’s become since he left, and with who his mother finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love.

Hombrecito� “little man�—is a moving portrait of a young person between cultures, between different ideas of himself. From an extraordinary new talent, this is a story told with startling beauty and intensity, a story for anyone searching for home, searching for a way to love.]]> 336 Santiago Jose Sanchez 0593542185 Alonso 0 to-read 3.82 2024
author: Santiago Jose Sanchez
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.82
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]]> 36696699
El Premio Clarín 2017 fue otorgado a esta novela mayor, una sólida y escalofriante pesadilla futurista en la que el canibalismo es legitimado en gran parte del mundo a causa de un virus que afecta a los animales y resulta mortal para los seres humanos. ¿Qué resto de humanismo puede caber cuando los cuerpos de los muertos son cremados para evitar su consumo? ¿En qué lugar queda el vínculo con el otro si, de verdad, somos lo que comemos? En esta despiadada distopía -tan brutal como sutil, tan alegórica como realista-, Agustina Bazterrica inspira, con el poder explosivo de la ficción, sensaciones y debates de suma actualidad.]]> 249 Agustina Bazterrica 9870737943 Alonso 5 3.98 2017
author: Agustina Bazterrica
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/12
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Espeluznante, un libro que me puso los pelos de punto todo el tiempo. Un libro que genera mucha reflexión sobre la naturaleza humana y nuestros hábitos de consumo
]]> 179791824
Alan Estrada, host del canal de YouTube con 3.3 millones de suscriptores, te cuenta lo que ha aprendido en lugares asombrosos y aterradores por desde la primera vez que viajó de mochilero a Cuba y la odisea de sobrevivir a la India hasta la sensación de sumergirse a 3,800 m para encontrarse con los restos del Titanic.

El autor, quien ha recorrido prácticamente todo el mundo, te explica cómo mantener viva la chispa del asombro en cada viaje, la importancia de admitir que no lo sabes todo, y que viajar es peligrosísimo� porque puede cambiarte la vida.

Este libro es la señal que necesitabas para emprender tu propia aventura. Compra ese boleto, pide esos días de vacaciones y descubre, con la guía de Alan, la versión de ti que está esperándote fuera de tu zona de confort.]]> 277 Alan Estrada 6070748530 Alonso 3 Mi problema con el libro es que es extremadamente repetitivo. Todas las lecciones circulan alrededor de los mismos conceptos: que si la zona de confort, que si las redes sociales (bastante irónico viniendo de alguien que vive de eso), que si el miedo, que si el prejuicio. Todo dicho de todas las formas, y sobre todo, en un tono aleccionador que no me dejó conectar con el libro de la forma en que lo he hecho con su vlog.]]> 4.34
author: Alan Estrada
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.34
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Alan es un GRAN narrador. La forma en que relata las anécdotas de sus viajes es muy redonda: describe paisajes, sensaciones, sentimientos, olores, sonidos� de una forma muy precisa y poética. Sus narraciones son envolventes.
Mi problema con el libro es que es extremadamente repetitivo. Todas las lecciones circulan alrededor de los mismos conceptos: que si la zona de confort, que si las redes sociales (bastante irónico viniendo de alguien que vive de eso), que si el miedo, que si el prejuicio. Todo dicho de todas las formas, y sobre todo, en un tono aleccionador que no me dejó conectar con el libro de la forma en que lo he hecho con su vlog.
]]> 221290006 «Cierro los ojos y trato de escucharlo que algún día me platicó mi viejo.Viene un nombre a mi memoria. Loescribo en Google. Aparecen un lugar,un barco, un apellido.»

¿Dónde empieza la memoria familiar? ¿En la sangre que enciende nuestro corazón o en las manos que escriben lo que parece destinado a desaparecer? Una futura escritora escucha el llamado de su estirpe tras la muerte de sus abuelos. Durante el duelo, esta narradora constata que ahora ella es la única depositaria de la herencia más intangible y su historia.

En la esperada precuela de Nadie nos vio partir , Tamara Trottner narra la migración de sus abuelos Moishe y Ana de Europa hacia América, cuando sus familias se ven forzadas a dejar atrás sus mundos conocidos para salvarse. En su camino, se cruzan personajes entrañables o crueles, que parecieran resistir al paso del tiempo y acecharnos también en el presente.

A través de una mirada tierna y aguda, de una escucha valiente y sensible, asistimos al rescate del futuro en medio de una catástrofe humana y cruzamos el océano Atlántico para acompañar a los Trachtenberg y los Wolloch en su combate contra la muerte y el olvido. El una historia íntima y universal que nos recuerda por qué la literatura es una vía revolucionaria de paz y esperanza.]]> Tamara Trottner 6073852134 Alonso 0 to-read 4.49
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]]> 210140278 A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year.

'Translation is longing. You never get it right.'
Young academic and emerging translator Fay takes her mother on a package tour holiday to France to celebrate her birthday. It's a chance for the two of them to take a break from work and have a little fun, but they both find it hard to relax. Her mother seems reluctant to leave their room in the evening, and Fay is working on a difficult translation. On their last night in France, Fay receives the shattering news that her former lover has suddenly died.
Back in Sydney, Fay seeks solace from her mentor, Professor Samantha Egan-Smith, who offers her a spot at a prestigious translation conference in Taipei. But can she trust her? Does the Professor know more than she is admitting, or is Fay being paranoid? When a shocking allegation is made, Fay chooses to keep it secret. Is she protecting the Professor or exercising power over her? Fay arrives at the conference in Taipei. Career opportunities abound, but it's ghost month in Taiwan. Her mother had begged her not to go at that time, warning that she would be susceptible to dangers and threats. And there is almost nothing a mother won't do to protect her child.
A wildly inventive, chilling and intoxicating story of betrayal, ambition and love, The Honeyeater confirms that Jessie Tu is one of our most original and exciting writers.

Praise for A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous
'With A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, Tu has made a remarkable and strong entry into the national literary scene.' � Australian Book Review
'An excellent debut…Tu eschews the idea of victimhood while staying aware of the persistence of patterns of structural social inequity.' � The Weekend Australian
'Fresh and energetic…this is a raw and illuminating glimpse into the world of a child prodigy.' � Canberra Times
'A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing is fiercely observant and daring, shining a spotlight on an Australian experience that is vastly underrepresented.' � Mamamia
'A fascinating and intense debut that challenges systemic racism and misogyny in the progressive artistic world…confronting, brilliant and original, Jessie Tu is an incredible new voice in Australian literature.' � Readings
'Tu's writing is piercing, with a staccato tone blending sections of intensity and quiet...The result is an absorbing, occasionally confronting and captivating first novel. In Jena Lin, Jessie Tu has crafted a memorable character � and we hope for more.' � The Sydney Morning Herald
'Bold, enthralling and sharp.' � Vogue]]> 352 Jessie Tu 1761470744 Alonso 4 3.32 2024
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name: Alonso
average rating: 3.32
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rating: 4
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Engaging, intelligent, and creative. The plot twists are unexpected yet powerful and make sense with the story. The ending is brilliant!
]]> 58202600 El invencible verano de Liliana es una excavación en la vida de una mujer brillante y audaz que careció del lenguaje necesario para identificar, denunciar y oponerse a la violencia machista y el terrorismo de pareja que caracteriza a tantas relaciones patriarcales.

Fue un 16 de julio de 1990 cuando, Liliana Rivera Garza, hermana de la autora, fue asesinada. Tenía 20 años y estudiaba la carrera de arquitectura. Llevaba cierto tiempo terminando su relación con un novio de la secundaria que insistía en no dejarla. Semanas antes del doloroso y trágico suceso, Liliana por fin tomó una decisión definitiva: en lo más profundo del invierno había descubierto que en ella, como bien lo había dicho Albert Camus, había un invencible verano. Lo dejaría atrás. Empezaría una nueva vida. Haría una maestría y después un doctorado; viajaría a Londres.

La decisión de él fue que ella no tendría una vida sin él.

No hace más de un año que la autor por fin se decidió a abrir las cajas donde se depositaron las pertenencias de Liliana. Intactas por 30 años. El interior contenían diarios, cartas, notas, dibujos, mapas, libros. Así, su voz atravesó el tiempo y, como la de tantas mujeres desaparecidas y ultrajadas en México, demandó justicia.]]> 304 Cristina Rivera Garza 8439739451 Alonso 5 El texto es sublime, golpea fuerte y directo pero de una manera que es necesaria. El estilo narrativo de Cristina es puntiagudo y lleno de vulnerabilidad. La forma en que integra las cartas, recados y mensajes de Liliana le dan un toque muy poderoso al relato. Los testimonios de los amigos de Liliana llenan el texto de perspectiva. Cada página, cada párrafo, cada oración, cada palabra están cargados de un mensaje tan importante y fuerte que resuenan como un trueno a mitad de la noche.
Un libro que debe ser leído por todos, para concientizarnos sobre la violencia que se ejerce contra las mujeres.]]> 4.51 2021
author: Cristina Rivera Garza
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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La forma en que Cristina relata la historia de su hermana, víctima de un feminicidio, es desgarradora pero poderosa porque muestra cómo este problema ha estado presente por décadas bajo el cobijo del patriarcado.
El texto es sublime, golpea fuerte y directo pero de una manera que es necesaria. El estilo narrativo de Cristina es puntiagudo y lleno de vulnerabilidad. La forma en que integra las cartas, recados y mensajes de Liliana le dan un toque muy poderoso al relato. Los testimonios de los amigos de Liliana llenan el texto de perspectiva. Cada página, cada párrafo, cada oración, cada palabra están cargados de un mensaje tan importante y fuerte que resuenan como un trueno a mitad de la noche.
Un libro que debe ser leído por todos, para concientizarnos sobre la violencia que se ejerce contra las mujeres.
]]> 62897700 This is an alternate cover edition for 9781529115543

This is not a romance, but it is about love

Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over.

When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars.

This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.]]> 482 Gabrielle Zevin Alonso 4 4.10 2022
author: Gabrielle Zevin
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/20
date added: 2024/11/20
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Very enjoyable novel. Although it gets a bit repetitive in some ways and moments, the plot is done very well, the characters feel real and are flawed and complex. As a person who’s not and never has been into video games, I found this novel very insightful and informative about the world of video games.
]]> 208580597 The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.

In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, “Sick Woman Theory�, became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism—a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies—we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others.

How to Tell When We Will Die expands upon Hedva’s paradigm-shifting perspective in a series of slyly subversive and razor-sharp essays that range from the theoretical to the personal—from Deborah Levy and Susan Sontag to wrestling, kink, mysticism, death, and the color yellow. Drawing from their experiences with America’s byzantine healthcare system, and considering archetypes they call The Psychotic Woman, The Freak, and The Hag in Charge, Hedva offers a bracing indictment of the politics that exploit sickness—relying on and fueling ableism—to the detriment of us all.

With the insight of Anne Boyer’s The Undying and Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, and the wit of Samantha Irby, Hedva’s debut collection upends our collective understanding of disability. In their radical reimagining of a world where care and pain are symbiotic, and our bodies are allowed to live free and well, Hedva implores us to remember that illness is neither an inconvenience or inevitability, but an enlivening and elemental part of being alive.]]> 384 Johanna Hedva 163893116X Alonso 0 to-read 3.85
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]]> 203751764
More than a million women lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medical reasons. For most, the experience often casts a shadow of isolation, shame, and blame. In the aftermath of the 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade, 25 million women of childbearing age live in states with laws that restrict access to abortion, including for those who never wanted to end their pregnancies. How did we get here?

Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, childhood friends who grew up to be journalists, both experienced late-term loss, and together they take an incisive, deeply reported look at the issue, working to shatter taboos that have made so many pregnant women feel ashamed and alone. They trace the experience of pregnancy loss and reproductive care from America's founding to the present day, exposing the deep impact made by a dangerous tangle of laws, politics, medicine, racism, and misogyny. Combining powerful personal narratives with exhaustive research, I'm Sorry for My Loss is a comprehensive examination on how pregnancy loss came to be so stigmatized and politicized, and why a system of more compassionate care is critical for everyone.]]> 496 1728292751 Alonso 0 to-read 4.39 2024
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]]> 181110014 Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he’s been stealing from.

Icarus Gallagher is a thief.

He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father’s impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. Black—has been their target, revenge for his role in the death of Icarus’s mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don’t let anyone close. Don’t let anyone touch you. And, above all, don’t get caught.

Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black, but by his mysterious son, Helios, now living under house arrest in the Black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios bargains for something even more dangerous—a friendship that breaks every single one of Icarus’s rules.

As reluctance and distrust become closeness and something more, they uncover the bars of the gilded cage that has trapped both of their families for years. One Icarus is determined to escape. But his father’s thirst for revenge shows no sign of fading, and soon it may force Icarus to choose: the escape he’s dreamed of, or the boy he’s come to love. Reaching for both could be his greatest triumph—or it could be his downfall.]]> 382 K. Ancrum 0063285789 Alonso 0 to-read 4.02 2024
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]]> 125045190 Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in this is the fifth volume of the much-loved HEARTSTOPPER series, featuring gorgeous two-color artwork.

Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They’ve finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick’s house... but with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie’s lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.]]> 318 Alice Oseman 1338807501 Alonso 0 to-read 4.44 2023
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name: Alonso
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]]> 207293815 In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial� America in search of answers.

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charles Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old who watched her white mother and step-family drown themselves in the lake behind their house.

Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across America headed for Alabama, where Sidney believes she may still have some family left. But neither Sidney or Charlie is prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.

When they enter the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.]]> 304 Cebo Campbell 1668034921 Alonso 0 to-read 3.82 2024
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]]> 204811915 People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?�

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,� Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.�]]> 326 Elizabeth Strout 0593446097 Alonso 0 to-read 3.97 2024
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]]> 56591408
A ambos personajes –Marie y Jérôme� los une su relación con Michka Seld, una anciana cuyos últimos meses de vida nos relatan estas dos voces cruzadas. Marie es su vecina: cuando era niña y su madre se ausentaba, Michka cuidaba de ella. Jérôme es el logopeda que intenta que la anciana, que acaba de ser ingresada en un geriátrico, recupere aunque sea parcialmente el habla, que va perdiendo por culpa de una afasia.

Y ambos personajes se involucrarán en el último deseo de Michka: encontrar al matrimonio que, durante los años de la ocupación alemana, la salvó de morir en un campo de exterminio acogiéndola y ocultándola en su casa. Nunca les dio las gracias y ahora querría mostrarles su gratitud...

Escrita con un estilo contenido, casi austero, esta narración a dos voces nos habla de la memoria, el pasado, el envejecimiento, las palabras, la bondad y la gratitud hacia aquellos que fueron importantes en nuestras vidas. Son las respectivas gratitudes las que unen a los tres inolvidables personajes cuyas historias se entrelazan en esta conmovedora y deslumbrante novela.]]> 176 Delphine de Vigan 8433980831 Alonso 0 to-read 4.37 2019
author: Delphine de Vigan
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.37
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]]> 53179223 382 Alejandro Zambra 8433941313 Alonso 4 4.54 2020
author: Alejandro Zambra
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average rating: 4.54
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Maravilloso. Un relato que abraza el corazón, que muestra masculinidades diferentes, que se hacen cargo de sus sentimientos. Una historia punzante pero conmovedora
]]> 129534927 Marco's always done the right thing. But now it's time for wrong answers only.

Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he’s been sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a ‘blip� everyone else is convinced was a panic attack. (Which it most definitely was not.)

And even though Marco’s trip is supposed to provide answers � about himself, about his family � all he finds on board the Ocean Melody are more and more questions.

But then his best friend CeCe proposes a new plan: for someone who has always done the right thing, in every possible way, it’s time for Marco to get a few things wrong. And hooking up with a hot dancer from the ship is only the beginning . . .]]> 384 Tobias Madden 0143777408 Alonso 2 4.15
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Good for a reading holiday, but the plot is just a variation on the author’s first novel’s plot (just different characters names and settings). The characters are unidimensional. Lots of plot wholes. The plot is condescending: characters are stereotypes, and inconsistent to make the story move� very flawed. The plot is very predictable. But it reads easy.
]]> 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 Alonso 0 to-read 3.62 2007
author: Han Kang
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]]> 199213388 A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin�), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Brimming with electrifying humor and lacerating observations, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.]]> 303 Percival Everett 1035031248 Alonso 4 It has all the elements of a great book: smart plot (a well thought retelling story), compelling characters, rhythm in the prose. I couldn’t put this one down. ]]> 4.41 2024
author: Percival Everett
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Everett is a great storyteller. This book reads easily.
It has all the elements of a great book: smart plot (a well thought retelling story), compelling characters, rhythm in the prose. I couldn’t put this one down.
]]> 32929913 Una historia de amistad.

Cuatro mujeres chilenas, a las puertas de la madurez y a orillas de un lago, dan curso sin inhibiciones al relato apasionado de sus historias personales.



Vidas marcadas a fuego por la experiencia socialista durante el gobierno de Salvador Allende y el golpe militar de 1973, pero también por la huella más íntima del amor y del dolor, el desengaño y la compasión. Los hilos de estas biografías están entrelazados con las vidas de otras mujeres "amigas, primas, hermanas", planteando página a página los dilemas de la sumisión, la infidelidad y el matrimonio, el trabajo y el sexo.



Cuando a pocos años del fin de siglo -apagados el fragor de las utopías y la explosión del feminismo- se propone que tal vez los hombres y las mujeres vivan un profundo desencuentro, Marcela Serrano ilumina su relación desde una óptica femenina inédita y enfrenta sin concesiones los claroscuros de la condición existencial de la mujer.]]> 323 Marcela Serrano 9877382938 Alonso 0 to-read 4.00 1991
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]]> 217246003 408 Rachel Kushner 1787334384 Alonso 3 3.52 2024
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Creation Lake has its moments but didn’t quite hit the mark for me. Despite the skillful writing, the ending felt rushed and unsatisfying, leaving me wanting more depth in both the story and character development. I don’t regret reading it, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a must-read.
]]> 212343501
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.

Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.

The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?]]> 135 Samantha Harvey Alonso 5 3.65 2023
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average rating: 3.65
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Such a beautiful little novel that is as deep and inspiring and mesmerising and big as the space. I was moved by it, it made me reflect on lots of things, and the writing is just superb
]]> 147779009 A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.

'Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with' Max Porter
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In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.

Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.

Translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won.
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'Another stunning gem: quiet, sharply faceted, and devastating' Kirkus

'Han Kang's vivid and at times violent storytelling will wake up even the most jaded of literary palates' Independent

'Han Kang is a writer like no other. In a few lines, she seems to traverse the entirety of human experience' Katie Kitamura]]> 149 Han Kang 0241997062 Alonso 4 3.55 2011
author: Han Kang
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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The prose of this book is beautiful and poetic and powerful. The story is deep and full of layers and emotions. Really good way to get into Han Kang’s work
]]> 201036745
1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river � alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand.

So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.

Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.]]> 220 Anne Michaels 1526662531 Alonso 5 3.61 2023
author: Anne Michaels
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.61
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rating: 5
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I loved the way this book, through snapshot scenes over the course of many decades, explored themes like grief, death, generational trauma, love, family� a very round and complex novel, yet very easy to read. The writing style is magnificent to say the least. The poetic prose is beautiful and moving.
]]> 62888191 A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes

Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.

A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.]]> 336 Gerardo Sámano Córdova 1638930368 Alonso 0 to-read 4.11 2023
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]]> 51338165
Han transcurrido muchos años desde entonces, pero, cuando su psiquiatra le recomienda revivir esa época como posible remedio al bloqueo artístico que está sufriendo como pintor, Aleksy no tarda en sumergirse en su memoria y vuelve a verse sacudido por las emociones que lo asediaron cuando llegaron a aquel pueblecito vacacional francés: el rencor, la tristeza, la rabia.

¿Cómo superar la desaparición de su hermana? ¿Cómo perdonar a la madre que lo rechazó? ¿Cómo enfrentarse a la enfermedad que la está consumiendo?

Este es el relato de un verano de reconciliación, de tres meses en los que madre e hijo por fin bajan las armas, espoleados por la llegada de lo inevitable y por la necesidad de hacer las paces entre sí y consigo mismos.

Plena de emoción y crudeza, Tatiana Ţîbuleac muestra una intensísima fuerza narrativa en este brutal testimonio que conjuga el resentimiento, la impotencia y la fragilidad de las relaciones maternofiliales. Una poderosa novela que entrelaza la vida y la muerte en una apelación al amor y al perdón. Uno de los grandes descubrimientos de la literatura europea actual.
Premio Las Librerías Recomiendan 2020 Ficción.
Premio Cálamo al mejor libro del año 2019.]]> 256 Tatiana Țîbuleac 8417553150 Alonso 5 4.29 2017
author: Tatiana Țîbuleac
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.29
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rating: 5
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Una novela dura y brutal pero profundamente conmovedora, que muestra a través de la relación de Aleksy y su madre que aunque la reconciliación no borra las heridas del pasado, puede abrir una puerta a nuevas formas de estar juntos. Una verdadera joya.
]]> 215366091 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 448 Sally Rooney 0571365477 Alonso 5 4.02 2024
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name: Alonso
average rating: 4.02
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I’m moved and in awe of the talent Rooney has to depict human relationships with all they entitled.
]]> 51147721 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020

'This book is a valentine to my mom and all the unsung Dominicanas like her, for their quiet heroism in making a better life for their families, often at a hefty cost to themselves. Even if Dominicana is a Dominican story, it's also a New York story, and an immigrant story. When I read parts of Dominicana at universities and literary venues both here and abroad, each time, audience members from all cultures and generations came up to me and said, this is my mother's story, my sister's story, my story' Angie Cruz

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay.

As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family’s assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with Cesar, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.

In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.]]> 334 Angie Cruz 152930489X Alonso 4 4.24 2019
author: Angie Cruz
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.24
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rating: 4
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Beautiful, endearing, powerful, funny, deep, inspiring. This novel is full of life and heart from beginning to end. I was so moved by it all the time.
]]> 193388020
Casandra heredó el departamento de su infancia, luego de la inesperada muerte de su madre. No vio el cadáver, pero lo soñó por días. Casi los mismos que le tomó ordenar las pertenencias y limpiar el espacio, deshacerse de aquellas fotos familiares que mamá había recortado para amputar su propio rostro.
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Bajo la promesa de estar sólo por un tiempo, Casandra y su novio, Fernando, se instalan en aquel departamento aún habitado por rencores y secretos. Ambos deben lidia; además, con las manías y exigencias de las vecinas ancianas del antiguo edificio; sobre todo,Casandra, a quien critican y dan órdenes disfrazadas de recomendaciones tal como lo hacían con mamá. Cada vez más alejada de Fernando, enajenada por el encierro y atada a los fantasmas del pasado, Casandra siente que su mundo se estrecha en un cerco de fronteras nebulosas.
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¿Estará convirtiéndose en ella, en mamá?
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Dueña de un gran talento narrativo, Bibiana Camacho despliega aquí los claroscuros de una relación entre madre e hija, logrando desvanecerlos bordes que las limitan sin que se fundan por completo. Sangre nueva revela el desequilibrio de esa intimidad que aturde y duele.

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“Bibiana Camacho forges a malevolent, sinister, unsettling and irreverent bond with her readers, daring to show the baseness in us and all around us and its power to threaten or destroy our consciences.� -Cecilia Eudave
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Following her mother’s sudden death, Casandra inherits the apartment where she spent her childhood.Ìý Although she doesn’t see her mother’s body, she has nightmares about it for days, almost as long as it takes her to clean the apartment, go through its contents, and throw out the family photos from which her mother cut out her own face.ÌýÌý
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To have some time alone, Casandra and her boyfriend, Fernando, move into the apartment, despite the secrets and resentments that lurk there. As they soon discover, they must also contend with the peculiarities and demands of their elderly neighbors in the building. Cassandra especially, like her mother before her, is on the receiving end of their orders and critiques, thinly disguised as recommendations. Alienated by her isolation and haunted by the ghosts of the past, Casandra feels her world shrink as she and Fernando grow apart.
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Is her life taking the same course as her mother’s?
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Making full use of her narrative talents, Bibiana Camacho lays bare the chiaroscuros of the mother-daughter relationship, dissolving its borders without dismantling them completely.Ìý New Blood reveals the imbalances inherent in this intimacy, and the pain and confusion they produce.]]> 168 Bibiana Camacho 6073830483 Alonso 4 Mi primer libro de Bibiana Camacho y ya quiero leerme el resto de su obra ]]> 3.78
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Un libro complejo, que expone temas muy punzantes e importantes como las paternidades por obligación y sus consecuencias, el gaslighting en la pareja, las complejidades del entorno social, a través de una prosa maravillosa, que habla de lo cotidiano y lo mezcla con el realismo mágico.
Mi primer libro de Bibiana Camacho y ya quiero leerme el resto de su obra
]]> 181366295 192 Doris Pilkington 0702265977 Alonso 4 As a (soon-to-be) Australian citizen, this book helped me gain a deeper understanding of Australia's past and its lasting impact on Indigenous communities and acknowledge a very painful chapter in the nation's history. ]]> 4.03 1996
author: Doris Pilkington
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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"Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" is a powerful reminder of the historical injustices inflicted upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples during the Stolen Generation. It highlights the lasting impact of these policies on generations, and the ongoing efforts to heal and reclaim their cultural heritage.
As a (soon-to-be) Australian citizen, this book helped me gain a deeper understanding of Australia's past and its lasting impact on Indigenous communities and acknowledge a very painful chapter in the nation's history.
]]> 87545307
The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him, spurred on by his love of Greek heroes and romantic poetry. Before long, their classmates have followed suit. Once in the trenches, Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, but their friends are all dying, right in front of them, and at any moment they could be next.

An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.<]]> 385 Alice Winn 0241567831 Alonso 2
The book romanticises war, toxic masculinity, internalised homophobia. There are too many irrelevant characters. The main characters are a cliche and their transformation arc is also a cliche.

if you want a queer war novel, read The Absolutists by John Boyne, a deeper novel that doesn't praise war.]]> 4.52 2023
author: Alice Winn
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2023
rating: 2
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Controversial opinion but I think this book is extremely overrated.

The book romanticises war, toxic masculinity, internalised homophobia. There are too many irrelevant characters. The main characters are a cliche and their transformation arc is also a cliche.

if you want a queer war novel, read The Absolutists by John Boyne, a deeper novel that doesn't praise war.
]]> 45274870 ‘Over The Top [is] a lightning bolt â€� devastating and stirring â€� generous and frank.’Ì�The Guardian Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.The truth is, it hasn’t always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix’s hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a small Midwestern town that didn’t understand why he was so…over the top. From choreographed carpet figure skating routines to the unavoidable fact that he was Just. So. Gay., Jonathan was an easy target and endured years of judgement, ridicule and trauma - yet none of it crushed his uniquely effervescent spirit.Over the TopÌýuncovers the pain and passion it took to end up becoming the model of self-love and acceptance that Jonathan is today. In this revelatory, raw, and rambunctious memoir, Jonathan shares never-before-told secrets and reveals sides of himself that the public has never seen. JVN fans may think they know the man behind the stiletto heels, the crop tops, and the iconic sayings, but there’s much more to him than meets the Queer Eye.You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll come away knowing that no matter how broken or lost you may be, you’re a Kelly Clarkson song, you’re strong, and you’ve got this.]]> 288 Jonathan Van Ness Alonso 5 4.19 2019
author: Jonathan Van Ness
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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JVN’s autobiography is a love letter to self-acceptance. Every page and story that he shares in it is a reminder of how important it is to love ourselves unconditionally. My admiration and love for Jonathan grew so much more with this book. I hope one day my path crosses with his as I really want to hug him and thank him for shearing his heart with us in the pages oh this book.
]]> 203767598 «Gloria Felipe miró la primera plana delperiódico recién impreso como si miraraun barco entrando de noche al marabierto. También un mar dentro de ella.»

Las vidas de Gloria Felipe y de Nuria Valencia se entrelazan en torno al robo de una niña pequeña que conmociona a la capital mexicana en la década de 1940. Por medio de una narradora que (en sus propias palabras) «no canta mal las rancheras», somos testigos de la batalla de los Miranda Felipe por recuperar a la menor de sus integrantes y de la crianza angustiosa de los Fernández Valencia para salvar a su propia niña de un peligro potencial que la policía no ha podido frenar y los medios reportan con el tono de un thriller.

Atravesada por diversas imágenes de agua –en forma de lluvia, mar, brisa, estanque o charco� que reflejan el estado anímico de sus personajes, Soñar como sueñan los árboles ofrece una mirada crítica de los mandatos de la maternidad, y muestra también las posibilidades de rebeldía y autodeterminación que abrieron las mujeres del medio siglo para nosotras. El sentido del humor sagaz y punzante de Brenda Lozano hace imposible soltar el libro hasta llegar a sus últimas páginas.

«En esta novela el lenguaje baila y nos deja conpreguntas como ¿Qué estamosdispuestas a hacer las madres en nombre delamor por una hija? ¿Qué (im)posibilita elsistema médico y social para las mujeres?¿Quién tiene acceso a la justicia? ¿Cuáles sonlas consecuencias del miedo en una sociedad?¿Cómo llegamos a perdonar? Preguntas cuyoeco retumba en nuestro contexto actual. Conun repartode personajes entrañables y unaastuta narradora, Lozano teje en esta novela elpasado de los años cuarenta en la Ciudad deMéxico y nuestra actualidad con sorprendentevigencia y ternura.»

-Gabriela Jauregui

«En esta novela el lenguaje baila y nos dejaconpreguntas como heridas ¿Qué estamosdispuestas a hacer las madres en nombre delamor por una hija? ¿Qué (im)posibilita elsistema médico y socialpara las mujeres?¿Quién tiene acceso a la justicia? ¿Cuáles sonlas consecuencias del miedo en una sociedad?¿Cómo llegamos a perdonar? Preguntas cuyoeco retumba en nuestro contextoactual. Conun reparto de personajes entrañables y unaastuta narradora, Lozano teje en estanovela elpasado de los años cuarenta en la Ciudad deMéxico y nuestra actualidad con sorprendentevigencia y ternura.»

-Gabriela Jauregui

Sobre Brujas

«El mayor éxito de Brujas es la forma enque entrelaza dos voces unahispanoha]]> 200 Brenda Lozano 6073840497 Alonso 3 Me gustó que no hubiera un protagonista claro en los personajes, porque la maternidad y la forma en que las diferentes mujeres que aparecen en la historia la vivieron a partir del secuestro de la niña se vuelve el enfoque central de la novela.
Me hubiera gustado que se profundizara más en el suceso, y las dos madres principales. Creo que habría sido una novela más redonda. Pero disfruté mucho su lectura y el estilo narrativo.]]> 3.92
author: Brenda Lozano
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.92
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De fácil lectura, una historia que aborda la maternidad desde un enfoque interesante. La voz de la narradora me gustó, con sus mexicanismos, aunque por momentos la historia divaga en datos innecesarios sobre personajes un poco irrelevantes.
Me gustó que no hubiera un protagonista claro en los personajes, porque la maternidad y la forma en que las diferentes mujeres que aparecen en la historia la vivieron a partir del secuestro de la niña se vuelve el enfoque central de la novela.
Me hubiera gustado que se profundizara más en el suceso, y las dos madres principales. Creo que habría sido una novela más redonda. Pero disfruté mucho su lectura y el estilo narrativo.
]]> 204902984 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement

It's 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel's life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep-as a guest, there to stay for the season...

Eva is Isabel's antithesis: sleeps late, wakes late, walks loudly through the house and touches things she shouldn't. In response Isabel develops a fury-fuelled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house-a spoon, a knife, a bowl-Isabel' suspicions spiral out of control. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel's paranoia gives way to desire - leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Eva - nor the house in which they live - are what they seem.]]> 262 Yael van der Wouden 0241652308 Alonso 4
The writing is beautiful and full of atmosphere, even though it’s a debut. It’s different from other literary fiction I’ve read, and I think it’s well-deserved on the Booker longlist. It’s an intense, dark read that really stays with you.]]> 4.19 2024
author: Yael van der Wouden
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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The novel captures very well the tension created by the contrasting personalities of the main characters. The way the story slowly builds up with small hints makes it really exciting, and the house feels like it has its a character in the novel. By the end, you feel like you were missing clues all along.

The writing is beautiful and full of atmosphere, even though it’s a debut. It’s different from other literary fiction I’ve read, and I think it’s well-deserved on the Booker longlist. It’s an intense, dark read that really stays with you.
]]> 123242869 Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past� that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time.

As Gaustine’s assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a ‘time shelter�, hoping to escape from the horrors of our present � a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present.

Intricately crafted, and eloquently translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter cements Georgi Gospodinov’s reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our times, a major voice in international literature.]]> 304 Georgi Gospodinov 1474623077 Alonso 4 3.56 2020
author: Georgi Gospodinov
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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Interesting, original premise and a very thorough provoking novel.
]]> 61325397
Siete cuentos de humor negro relatan ese apocalipsis íntimo desde el ojo de la tormenta. Con una voz narrativa que va de la empatía a la ironía, de la sátira a la tesitura sentimental del bolero, Enrique Serna cuenta la cruel anagnórisis de un yonqui francés, el amargo crepúsculo de un donjuán provinciano, la disputa de una pareja mal avenida por el cariño de su adorable mascota, la zozobra de un apóstol de la enseñanza enamorado de su mejor alumna, la devoción patológica de una empleadilla unida en espíritu a una diva de Hollywood, las angustias de un ombusdman trastornado por una inyección de autoestima erótica y el colapso de una abuela en brama cuando invade su lecho la polarización política del país.

La comedia de las pasiones narrada por un encantador de serpientes.]]> 272 Enrique Serna 6073816391 Alonso 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 199309237
A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro.

She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she ruminates on her childhood in the nearby town. She finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget.

Disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation.

Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community decades before to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered.

Finally, a troubling visitor to the monastery pulls the narrator further back into her past.

With each of these disturbing arrivals, the woman faces some deep questions. Can a person be truly good? What is forgiveness? Is loss of hope a moral failure? And can the business of grief ever really be finished?

A meditative and deeply moving novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend .]]> 297 Charlotte Wood 1761069497 Alonso 3 A very meditative novel, very well written and engaging. ]]> 3.78 2023
author: Charlotte Wood
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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An atheist woman who recluses herself in a convent. The convent is waiting for the bones of a sister who died in Bangkok. The convent is facing a mice plague.
A very meditative novel, very well written and engaging.
]]> 61992862
Distancia de rescate sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿Hay acaso algún apocalipsis que no sea personal? ¿Cuál es el punto exacto en el que, sin saberlo, se da el paso en falso que, ahora sí, nos condena?

Samanta Schweblin ha escrito un relato extraordinario e hipnótico, urgente y perdurable, que logra mantenernos inevitablemente atrapados y sumergirnos en un universo de ficción estremecedor.]]> 128 Samanta Schweblin 8439740972 Alonso 4 3.87 2014
author: Samanta Schweblin
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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Un libro que atrapa, con un estilo narrativo único, que genera suspenso y desconcierto desde la primera página.
]]> 210373324
Over the following three decades, these two lives almost intersect in pivotal moments, the distance between them at times drawing so thin they nearly collide. Against the backdrop of an era including Australia's first Mardi Gras and the AIDS pandemic, we see these two lives ebb and flow, with joy and grief and loss and desire, until at last they come together in the most beautiful and surprising of fashions.

A Language of Limbs is about love and how it's policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak - the jokes you tell as you're dying and the ways laughing at a funeral softens the edges of our grief. An unashamed celebration of queer life in all its vibrancy and colour, this story finds the humanity in all of us, and demands we claim our futures for ourselves.]]> 277 Dylin Hardcastle 1761562428 Alonso 5 4.39 2024
author: Dylin Hardcastle
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/11
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This book is so rounded and beautiful and aggressive and queer and emotional and powerful and original and historical. The prose is so poetic. The words create images and emotions in a beautiful way. The stories of these narrators are endearing and inspiring and a reminder for all of us who belong to the queer community.
]]> 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Alonso 0 to-read 3.97 1928
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1928
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]]> 92250
The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.]]> 119 Tony Kushner 1559360615 Alonso 4 4.27 1993
author: Tony Kushner
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2015/02/17
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]]> 60752357 A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future, Losing Face deals with timely issues around consent and inherited trauma.

Joey is young, indifferent. He’s drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one that threatens to upend his life entirely.

Elaine, his grandmother, is a proud Lebanese woman with problems of her own. When Joey is arrested, she is desperate to save face and hold herself together. In her family, history repeats itself, vices come and go, and uncovering long-buried secrets isn’t always cathartic.

This gripping and hard-hitting novel reveals the richness and complexity of contemporary Australian life and tests the idea that facing consequences will make us better people.]]> 271 George Haddad 0702265551 Alonso 3 3.95 2022
author: George Haddad
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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Joey’s story is compelling and thought provoking. The books is a slow cooker, and it takes a while to get into it. Elaine’s parts were a bit flunky and unnecessary. I didn’t think the relationship between these two characters was strong enough to have their own POVs, Joey’s would have been enough
]]> 55592283
Un regalo para todos sus lectores, una lección de vida y coraje.

Cada año vivido y cada arruga cuentan mi historia.

Isabel Allende bucea en su memoria y nos ofrece un emocionante libro sobre su relación con el feminismo y el hecho de ser mujer, al tiempo que reivindica que la vida adulta hay que vivirla, sentirla y gozarla con plena intensidad.

En Mujeres del alma mía la gran autora chilena nos invita a acompañarla en este viaje personal y emocional donde repasa su vinculación con el feminismo desde la infancia hasta hoy. Recuerda a algunas mujeres imprescindibles en su vida, como sus añoradas Panchita, Paula o la agente Carmen Balcells; a escritoras relevantes como Virginia Woolf o Margaret Atwood; a jóvenes artistas que aglutinan la rebeldía de su generación o, entre otras muchas, a esas mujeres anónimas que han sufrido la violencia y que llenas de dignidad y coraje se levantan y avanzan... Ellas son las que tanto le inspiran y tanto le han acompañado a lo largo de su vida: sus mujeres del alma. Finalmente, reflexiona también sobre el movimiento #MeToo -que apoya y celebra-, sobre las recientes revueltas sociales en su país de origen y, cómo no, sobre la nueva situación que globalmente estamos viviendo con la pandemia. Todo ello sin perder esa inconfundible pasión por la vida y por insistir en que, más allá de la edad, siempre hay tiempo para el amor.]]> 192 Isabel Allende 8401023661 Alonso 2 ]]> 4.08 2020
author: Isabel Allende
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2020
rating: 2
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Se lee muy fácil porque Isabel es una gran narradora, pero el libro es repetitivo, no profundiza en los conceptos que trata de explicar y exponer. Se siente un poco hecho al aventón.

]]> 7934095
We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and a young man who aches for the mother he lost - and whom Olive comforts by her mere presence, while her own son feels overwhelmed by her complex sensitivities.

A penetrating, vibrant exploration of the human soul, the story of Olive Kitteridge will make you laugh, nod in recognition, wince in pain, and shed a tear or two.]]> 337 Elizabeth Strout 1849831556 Alonso 4 3.92 2008
author: Elizabeth Strout
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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The ability of Stouts� to write about the everyday life and its people and their experiences and relationships and what hides beneath them with such detail and subtlety is just magnificent
]]> 195492969
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.

How far will she go to save her family? And what � or who � is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.]]> 320 Paul Lynch 0861546458 Alonso 5
The writing style of Lynch is brutal and brilliant. The way in which he narrates the story without paragraph breaks, or any distinction between dialogues and sentences gives the book a breathless, claustrophobic atmosphere that makes the story so much more stronger and impactful. No wonder why he was awarded with the Booker Prize for this novel.

I found very powerful how the novel is mirrors the harsh reality of countries torn by war, echoing the current struggles in places like Palestine, Ukraine, and Syria.
]]> 4.07 2023
author: Paul Lynch
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/16
date added: 2024/07/24
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Reading this novel was a uniquely intense experience. Although I was very engaged with it and wanted to not stop reading it, I had to take my time with it as the story is shockingly chillingly, horrifyingly, and relentlessly tense, making me feel very distressed.

The writing style of Lynch is brutal and brilliant. The way in which he narrates the story without paragraph breaks, or any distinction between dialogues and sentences gives the book a breathless, claustrophobic atmosphere that makes the story so much more stronger and impactful. No wonder why he was awarded with the Booker Prize for this novel.

I found very powerful how the novel is mirrors the harsh reality of countries torn by war, echoing the current struggles in places like Palestine, Ukraine, and Syria.

]]> 200649812
Growing up, TJ was Cam’s boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ’s parents took him in. Their family bakery became Cam’s safe place� until he left. Years later, Cam’s world is falling apart. The love of his life is dead and Cam’s not sure he’s ready to let go of him, but when he has a chance to return to his home town he takes it. Back in the same place as TJ, they circle each other warily, TJ unsure how to navigate Cam � utterly cool, completely devastated and self-destructive � crashing back into his world.]]> 302 Bryan Washington 1838954473 Alonso 3
While “Family Meal� tries to center the story on grief, depression, and addiction within the context of queer men of color, this approach is not enough to redeem the novel’s shortcomings. ]]> 3.65 2023
author: Bryan Washington
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/15
date added: 2024/07/22
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I really wanted to like Washington’s novel as all the hype around it on Bookstagram told me that the book tackles themes I am interested in, but I just couldn’t completely connect with it. I felt the novel’s execution fell short. The dialogue and character’s inner thoughts are often clunky and labored, making emotional conversations feel contrived and unrealistic. Moments of tension lack impact, coming off as gimmicky rather than profound.

While “Family Meal� tries to center the story on grief, depression, and addiction within the context of queer men of color, this approach is not enough to redeem the novel’s shortcomings.
]]> 122996683 El calor y la mala vida marcan el audaz ritmo narrativo con que Fernanda Melchor nos conduce por este cruce de caminos novelístico. Violencia, muerte y vicio construyen una realidad donde el placer inmediato es la única esperanza a la que los personajes se aferran, sin saber que esa misma pulsión terminará por perderlos.
Un impresionante debut. Un estilo severo y directo. Una primera novela que nos sitúa en lo más abrasador de un universo ficcional particular y novedoso.]]> 256 Fernanda Melchor 8439741685 Alonso 5 Estas historias que parecen ajenas unas de otras pero que convergen no solo al final sin circunstancialmente, muestran la forma en que la violencia atraviesa a víctimas y victimarios desde muchos lugares.
Fernanda es una maestra para crear escenas fuertes, retratar a los sectores marginados de la sociedad sin condescendencia ni condecoraciones. Como los demás trabajos de Melchor, Falsa Liebre atrapa desde la primera página y al terminar te deja con la mente reflexionando sobre temas como el resentimiento social y sus causas y consecuencias.]]> 3.81 2013
author: Fernanda Melchor
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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Que talento tiene la Melchor para retratar la realidad del México que las personas privilegiadas tratan de evadir de una forma punzante, precisa, lejos de la condescendencia y con mucha empatía y crítica a la vez.
Estas historias que parecen ajenas unas de otras pero que convergen no solo al final sin circunstancialmente, muestran la forma en que la violencia atraviesa a víctimas y victimarios desde muchos lugares.
Fernanda es una maestra para crear escenas fuertes, retratar a los sectores marginados de la sociedad sin condescendencia ni condecoraciones. Como los demás trabajos de Melchor, Falsa Liebre atrapa desde la primera página y al terminar te deja con la mente reflexionando sobre temas como el resentimiento social y sus causas y consecuencias.
]]> 18622125 ‘Seek and ye shall find.�

With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.


A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon’s knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.

With only a few lines from Dante’s dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance � sculptures, paintings, buildings � to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat�

Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history’s most ominous literary classics, Inferno is Dan Brown’s most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, a breathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you close the book.]]> 620 Dan Brown 0552169595 Alonso 1 3.94 2013
author: Dan Brown
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2013
rating: 1
read at: 2016/02/24
date added: 2024/07/04
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El autor engaña al lector para mantenerlo interesado en su novela y "justifica" hechos y comportamientos en los personajes con explicaciones sin sentido y contradictorias. Es, al igual que el resto de su obra, irreal y fácil de leer pero aquí la fórmula se siente gastada y forzada. Pésimo libro
]]> 29408433 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship� (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST � MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST � WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE �

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.]]> 723 Hanya Yanagihara 1447294831 Alonso 5 4.36 2015
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2018/04/21
date added: 2024/07/01
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4.5 would be my rating, and only because I felt the last part was a little too long. But the story is so moving and the characters are deep and endearing. I was captured by all of them from the first page, I could see myself in them but also I could see my friends in them and that made this reading more intense and enjoyable. I think the best asset in this novel is that the author was able to portrait real humans with flaws and virtues, with fears and hopes, with tragedies and successes... the book is, indeed, a little life. If you’re going to read this novel have some tissues next to you because you’re going to cry a lot!!!
]]> 195530396
You don't know the first thing about me. A son can never see his mother as a woman. You will only see me in relation to you. I have had a thousand lives before you were even a thought. Hospitalised as a child for an entire year. Living as an adult without family in Athens when the colonels took control.

Start when I was born. Describe the village and how beautiful it was. On the side of a mountain but in the middle of a forest. If we walked to a certain point on the edge, we could look over the valley and see rain clouds coming. Sometimes we would see a cat on a roof, we read that as a warning of a storm. When we looked down, we saw the dirt, which was just as rich as the sky. My island, your island, our island.

Sometimes I think God forgot about us because we were poor.

A stunning new novel from the author of Down the Hume and The Pillars, God Forgets About the Poor is a love story to a migrant mother, whose story is as important as any ever told.]]> 272 Peter Polites 1761151649 Alonso 2 3.60 2023
author: Peter Polites
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2024/06/29
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I have mixed feelings about this one. I really wanted to like "God Forgets About The Poor" but, while it does offer insights into the immigrant experience, it left me feeling disappointed and a bit frustrated.
]]> 23262331
Guillermo Osorno cuenta la historia de Henri Donnadieu, un aventurero francés que huía de la justicia de su país y a finales de los setenta llegó a México, donde fundó El Nueve, un emblemático bar gay de la Zona Rosa. Con el paso de los años, el local se convirtió en la hoguera donde se cocinó la posmodernidad mexicana: un sitio underground en el que comenzaron a circular las imágenes, las ideas y los sonidos de una globalización cultural. El telón de fondo del relato lo conforman los cambios políticos y sociales de México, los primeros signos de la decadencia priísta, la crisis económica, el temblor de 1985, la aparición del sida y sus efectos devastadores.

Este libro es un testimonio generacional que da cuenta de las semillas que se plantaron y luego germinaron en nuestras ideas sobre la diversidad y la ciudad abierta, culturalmente rica y cosmopolita.
]]> 237 Guillermo Osorno 6073123000 Alonso 4 3.86 2014
author: Guillermo Osorno
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/19
date added: 2024/06/19
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Que manera tan bonita de recordar la historia de un país y, específicamente, de la Ciudad de México a partir de la perspectiva queer. Que chido leer como el movimiento gay fue y es vital en el desarrollo de la cultura de los lugares. Este libro resultó un testimonio de como el activismo, la resilencia y la resistencia de gente como Henri Donnadieu nos permiten gozar de espacios y privilegios en el presente.
]]> 30244886 Lucas Pereyra viaja a Uruguay en barco por el día a buscar dólares. Son tiempos de restricciones cambiarias. Tiene ya arreglado un encuentro secreto en Montevideo, pero sus planes pueden fallar.
Encandilado por el recuerdo de un verano anterior y agobiado por un matrimonio que se resquebraja, sueña con escaparse y no volver. ¿Con quién se va a encontrar? Montevideo, esa ciudad idealizada por la distancia, se volverá impredecible.
La uruguaya es una novela inquietante y ferozmente entretenida. Con pulso magistral, Pedro Mairal sostiene la intriga en cada una de sus páginas y demuestra, de modo irrefutable, que es uno de los grandes de la literatura argentina contemporánea.]]> 167 Pedro Mairal 9500438208 Alonso 4 Relaciones sexoafectivas. Un final inesperado, con un poderoso mensaje sin caer en cursilerías ni aleccionamientos baratos]]> 3.67 2016
author: Pedro Mairal
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/12
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Fácil de leer. Una historia que parece simple y divertida, pero que confronta las
Relaciones sexoafectivas. Un final inesperado, con un poderoso mensaje sin caer en cursilerías ni aleccionamientos baratos
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From a prize-winning German writer, this is the intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history.]]> 294 Jenny Erpenbeck 1783786132 Alonso 4 The plot is simple: single student girl and married older man fall in love. Yet it is a very profound story because of the context where it is situated: in the years before and after the fall of Berlin Wall.
]]> 3.25 2021
author: Jenny Erpenbeck
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.25
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/10
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At the beginning it was a bit confused due to its unique writing style. I had to read and reread passages to understand what was happening to whom or who was saying what. But once I got it, it was easy to follow the story.
The plot is simple: single student girl and married older man fall in love. Yet it is a very profound story because of the context where it is situated: in the years before and after the fall of Berlin Wall.

]]> 202319203 «—Vicky, ven, acércate, te voy a decir un el infierno no existe, son los papás—le susurró al oído y se partió de risa.»

Alejandra, una adolescente frívola, vive en un fraccionamiento de clase alta. Su vida se ve afectada por el abandono de su madre y la dureza de un padre estricto. Es muy cercana a Vicky, su nana, quien para ella es parte de la familia, y que padece de epilepsia, por lo que casi no sale de los ±ôí³¾¾±³Ù±ð²õ de la casa. Una tarde sus vidas cambian por completo cuando Juan Pablo,el lavacoches, intenta violar a Vicky. ¿Cómo nos afectan las decisiones una vez que las tomamos? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias cuando ya no hay marcha atrás? No matarás es una historia desgarradora que constriñe las vísceras y sacude el alma.

«La novela de Ana Sofía González explora como pocas laculpa, la locura, la devastación provocada por un crimen que, aun en defensa propia, arrastra a las protagonistas a losabismos más oscuros. Una reflexión profunda sobre lasconsecuencias emocionales de nuestros actos.»

-Guillermo Arriaga]]> 312 Ana Sofía González 6073839472 Alonso 0 to-read 4.08
author: Ana Sofía González
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.08
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]]> 42397792 La intimidad es nuestra única épica común.

Ésta es la lección o el recordatorio de Carolina y otras despedidas. Aquí no hay grandes amores tormentosos, viajes de descubrimiento a tierras exóticas, ni oscuros crímenes por resolver, sino sentimientos de los que no hablamos. Lo que el lector encontrará en cada uno de estos relatos es una ventana a un mundo privado: tan ordinario y excéntrico como es cada una de nuestras vidas.

Carolina y otras despedidas es un libro de cuentos sobre la pérdida y el reencuentro, un inventario de experiencias de la separación y una reflexión en mosaico sobre lo irreparable.]]> 94 Elvira Liceaga 6073172222 Alonso 0 to-read 3.79
author: Elvira Liceaga
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.79
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]]> 125078678
Sutil e inteligente, la prosa de Liceaga se pregunta quiénes somos en el quiebre de la cotidianidad� y busca en lo íntimo para acariciar nuestras heridas.]]> 280 Elvira Liceaga 6073826664 Alonso 5
La prosa de Elvira Liceaga es un agasajo. La manera en que logra crear imágenes de lugares y momentos es muy acogedora y sensorial. Mientras leía esta novela, sentí que había regresado a México.

Las vigilantes es una oda a las diferentes formas en que se viven las relaciones entre madres e hijas. Es una novela sobre las perdidas, los encuentros, los duelos, las dificultades, las alegrías, la escritura. Es una novela sobre las esperanzas que aparecen en los momentos cotidianos de la vida. ]]> 4.22
author: Elvira Liceaga
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.22
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rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/29
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Un libro lleno de capas. Desde la cotidianidad de Julia -la narradora-, Catalina -su madre- y Silvia - una joven embarazada en una casa de acogida- esta novela logra retratar de una manera acogedora la sororidad que crean los vínculos femeninos desde la vulnerabilidad. Un libro que poco a poco va revelando la esencia que habita a estas mujeres, como si sus páginas fueran las capas de una cebolla cargada de la condición humana.

La prosa de Elvira Liceaga es un agasajo. La manera en que logra crear imágenes de lugares y momentos es muy acogedora y sensorial. Mientras leía esta novela, sentí que había regresado a México.

Las vigilantes es una oda a las diferentes formas en que se viven las relaciones entre madres e hijas. Es una novela sobre las perdidas, los encuentros, los duelos, las dificultades, las alegrías, la escritura. Es una novela sobre las esperanzas que aparecen en los momentos cotidianos de la vida.
]]> 210432997 Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known. Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history. Here in RuPaul’s singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living—a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly. If we’re all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.]]> 239 RuPaul 0008614946 Alonso 3
After finishing this book, I was left with a bit of sadness because it revealed a person who thinks he understands outsiders when, in reality, he only understands the desire for fame and his eventual attainment of it.

]]> 3.68 2024
author: RuPaul
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/05/23
date added: 2024/05/23
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I was very disappointed with this book because it presents a RuPaul that is the opposite of what he promotes on the reality show he hosts. On the show, he emphasizes vulnerability and showing your true self, but I felt his portrayal in the memoir was overly curated, self-congratulatory, and condescending. Honestly, didn't he get tired of writing about how enlightened he has always been because he was born "different" from everyone else? After so many instances, it felt like he didn't want to say he was different but above everyone else, with his PR team editing it for him, hahaha.

After finishing this book, I was left with a bit of sadness because it revealed a person who thinks he understands outsiders when, in reality, he only understands the desire for fame and his eventual attainment of it.


]]> 36224723 Fugitive Pieces, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list.

"Athos and I stood together on deck and looked across the water at the bright city. From this distance no one would guess the turmoil that had torn apart Greece... The sea began to darken, and Athens, glowing in the distance, seemed to float on the horizon like a bright ship."

Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. He is the only one of his family to have survived the invasion. Adopted by his saviour, the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history.

A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to restore even the most damaged of hearts.]]> 304 Anne Michaels 1408891352 Alonso 0 3.75 1996
author: Anne Michaels
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1996
rating: 0
read at: 2024/05/16
date added: 2024/05/16
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Overall, I did like this book, but it didn't completely resonate with me. The first part was really well done, but the second part was a miss for me.
]]> 76093157 What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?

This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma’s deceptively simple What I’d Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely.

In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly.]]> 224 Jente Posthuma 1922585807 Alonso 5 3.50 2020
author: Jente Posthuma
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/01
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Dense and emotive and, ironically, full of life for a book that is about death and grief. I loved how the author was able to portray sibling relationships and their complexities through vignettes of the every day life. I picked up this books without knowing anything about it and was pleasantly surprised by it.
]]> 60847977 'It was as if this man in front of him were an invisible door and he was paused on the threshold' Discover Tom Crewe's magnificent debut novel about desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England . . .* Featured in The Observer 10 best new novelists for 2023 * 'Beautifully crafted' Sunday Times * 'Powerful' Telegraph * 'Virtuoso' Guardian * 'Brims with intelligence and insight' New York Times * 'Vivid and erotically charged' Daily Mail * 'A very fine new writer' Kate Atkinson______________London, 1894. After a lifetime navigating his desires, John, married to Catherine, has met Frank. Meanwhile Henry's wife Edith has fallen for Angelica.A shared vision for the future brings John and Henry together to write a revolutionary book in defiance of convention and the law.Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry, and all those around them, into danger. How far should they go to win personal freedoms? And how high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living?______________'Enthralling . . . I'm confident I have read one of the most beautifully crafted, lavishly imagined novels of 2023' Sunday Times'Electrifying' Anne Enright'Filled with nuance and tenderness . . . charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving' Colm Tóibín]]> 376 Tom Crewe 1784744697 Alonso 4 3.79 2023
author: Tom Crewe
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/28
date added: 2024/04/28
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Although a bit slow at the beginning, the story grows with the passing of the first few chapters and it was very engaging. It was a great way to understand how homosexuality was lived and understood in the late nineteenth century and to reflect on how much we have come to and how much we still have to work on. The writing style of the book is marvellous.
]]> 200142395 Ìý
Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino. Un regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores del Nobel colombiano.]]> 142 Gabriel García Márquez 8439743076 Alonso 4 3.59 2024
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/15
date added: 2024/04/14
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que regalazo que esta novela corta haya visto la luz. Este trabajo postumo muestra el inconfundible estilo narrativo de Garcia Marquez y es un goce leerlo. A pesar de que el Gabo no termino de revisar y editar esta novela, este trabajo es maravilloso.
]]> 122901891
Es de noche y en el puerto de Barcelona un guardia hace su ronda cuando su pastora alemana se para en seco a olfatear un contenedor. Al llegar, los mossos hallan en su interior a una mujer inconsciente y deshidratada. Tiene una brecha en la sien, quemaduras en la cara y el cuerpo, y no recuerda quién es ni cuál es su lengua materna, pero está viva. Mientras se recupera en el Hospital Clínic, un hombre intenta asesinarla. La inspectora Anna Ripoll, experta en trata de mujeres, parece haber dado con su identidad y su direcció Alicia Garone; 19, rue du Chariot, Lyon. En la ciudad francesa el inspector Erik Zapori busca el modo de librarse de la investigación a la que asuntos internos lo está sometiendo por delitos de corrupción y proxenetismo. Nada mejor que viajar a España a ayudar en la resolución de este caso, aunque pueda ser el más complejo de su vida.

Rosa Montero, una de las autoras más queridas y premiadas en lengua española, vuelve a la novela negra, esta vez acompañada por Olivier Truc, ganador del Premio Quais du Polar, el más prestigioso galardón francés del género policiaco.

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“There is no better writer in the Spanish language than Rosa Montero.� —Juan Gómez Jurado
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It is nighttime, and a guard at the Barcelona harbor is making his rounds when his German Shepherd halts to sniff a container. When the police arrive, they find an unconscious dehydrated woman inside. She has a cut on her temple, burns over her face and body, and cannot remember who she is or what her mother tongue is, but she is alive. While recuperating at the Hospital Clínic, a man tries to kill her. Inspector Anna Ripoll, expert in trafficking in women, seems to have found her name and address—Alicia Garone, 19 Rue du Chariot, Lyon. At the French city, inspector Erik Zapori is looking for a way out of the investigation Internal Affairs has put him under for crimes of corruption and procurement. Nothing better than traveling to Spain to help solve this case, although it well may be the most challenging of his life.
Ìý
Rosa Montero, one the most beloved and laureate authors in the Spanish language, returns to crime fiction, this time accompanied by Olivier Truc, winner of the Quais du Polar Prize, the most prestigious French award for crime novels.]]> 160 Rosa Montero 6073827288 Alonso 2 3.43
author: Rosa Montero
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.43
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Una novela con gran potencial. La premisa de la historia es muy interesante; el hecho de que dos autores maravillosos se unieran para desarrollar esta novela sonaba magnífico. Pero el resultado final es bastante mediocre. La historia se desarrolla sin profundidad, la cosas suceden fácilmente y hacen que la tensión nunca crezca y eso en una novela policiaca es un crimen (not pun intended). Creo que con mayor desarrollo a personajes y trama, esta novela habría sido un gran producto literario. Una gran decepción.
]]> 75390103
«Este libro es lo más parecido a una autobiografía fragmentada. [...] El lector acabará obteniendo la máxima información de mí como cineasta, como fabulador y el modo en que mi vida hace que una cosa y las otras se mezclen». Así define el autor este volumen, en una brillante introducción que sirve también de puesta en perspectiva: los doce relatos que lo componen abarcan varias épocas, desde finales de la década de los sesenta hasta la actualidad, y en ellos se reflejan algunas de sus obsesiones más íntimas, además de su evolución como artista. Los oscuros años escolares, la influencia de la ficción en la vida, los efectos inesperados del azar, la sofisticación del humor, los inconvenientes de la fama, la fascinación por los libros o la experimentación con los géneros narrativos son algunos de los temas que pueblan este libro imprescindible, que contiene múltiples capas de lectura.]]> 208 Pedro Almodóvar 8466375279 Alonso 3 3.68 2023
author: Pedro Almodóvar
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/31
date added: 2024/03/31
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Estaba emocionado por leer esta recopilación de escritos de uno de mis directores de cine favoritos, y aunque algunos de los textos que forman parte de esta recopilación son buenos y muestran una parte de Pedro que no conocía, en general son texto que al leerlos sentí que les faltó más trabajo para desarrollarse. Me gustaron los textos biográficos, los relatos de ficción me parecieron un poco largos y, por momentos, aburridos.
]]> 168683460
“AÌýthrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with a stylish scary new story that doesn't disappoint.â€�Ìýâ€� Town & Country

Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city.

Seventeen-year-oldÌýBret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them—and Bret in particular—with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends—or his own mind—to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between the Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.Ìý

Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre- Less Than Zero L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret’s life at seventeen—sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting, and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.]]> 608 Bret Easton Ellis 059346916X Alonso 5 4.10 2023
author: Bret Easton Ellis
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/12
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Magnificent! I was engaged by the book from page 1. Loved how the author uses himself as a main character of this fictional memoir. The mystery of the book is well developed, the characters are complex and flawed. I loved the mix of horror with lust.
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It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.

But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.

A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.]]> 500 Trent Dalton 1460757769 Alonso 5 4.28 2018
author: Trent Dalton
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2024/02/27
date added: 2024/02/27
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BRILLIANT!!! The story of this book is perfect: the main character is so human that he instantly reflects the readers part of themselves; the rest of the characters are well-constructed and all of them (even the most incidental ones) have a purpose for the plot. Every episode in the story has a reason, there are no paragraphs or even words without a purpose or just to fill pages. This makes the story round and deep. Definitely the best novel I’ve read in the last 10 years.
]]> 44316361 Desire as we’ve never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting.

It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it’s all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored � until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds. The result, Three Women, is the deepest nonfiction portrait of desire ever written and one of the most anticipated books of the year.

We begin in suburban Indiana with Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. She passes her days cooking and cleaning for a man who refuses to kiss her on the mouth, protesting that "the sensation offends" him. To Lina’s horror, even her marriage counselor says her husband’s position is valid. Starved for affection, Lina battles daily panic attacks. When she reconnects with an old flame through social media, she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming.

In North Dakota we meet Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who finds a confidant in her handsome, married English teacher. By Maggie’s account, supportive nightly texts and phone calls evolve into a clandestine physical relationship, and he promises that they’ll skip school on her eighteenth birthday and make love all day. Instead, he breaks up with her on the morning he turns thirty. A few years later, Maggie has no degree, no career, and no dreams to live for. When she learns that this man has been named North Dakota’s Teacher of the Year, she steps forward with her story, turning their quiet community upside down.

Finally, in an exclusive enclave of the Northeast, we meet Sloane � a gorgeous, successful, and refined restaurant owner � who is happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. He picks out partners for her alone or for a threesome, and she ensures that everyone’s needs are satisfied. For years, Sloane has been asking herself where her husband’s desire ends and hers begins. One day, they invite a new man into their bed � but he brings a secret with him that will finally force Sloane to confront the uneven power dynamics that fuel their lifestyle.

Based on years of immersive reporting, and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, Three Women is a groundbreaking portrait of erotic longing in today’s America, exposing the fragility, complexity, and inequality of female desire with unprecedented depth and emotional power. It is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy, that introduces us to three unforgettable women � and one remarkable writer � whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.]]> 320 Lisa Taddeo 1526611651 Alonso 4 3.63 2019
author: Lisa Taddeo
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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A very insightful exploration into women’s sexual desires, trauma and psychology in their relationships with men and how society has always underpin and diminished them in favour of men. A non fiction book that reads like a novel.
]]> 203326857 ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers� Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
‘A quietly stunning achievement� Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious � and learning to go on.

April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house � and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.

April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts � and his secret Instagram life � for company.

April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality � with what they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on.

From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life � how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely.

‘Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece � Read it and be changed� Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less]]> 274 Michael Cunningham 0008659990 Alonso 5 3.66 2023
author: Michael Cunningham
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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Cunningham's writing style is out of this world. Even when there's not much plot in the novel, shows the trauma of the every day moments with poetic grace, showing how there's something profound in ordinary characters with ordinary struggles. This made the characters feel so personable that I wanted to care for them, especially for Robbie.
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But still they both turn up for the dinner, feel the spark and the possibility of something more.ÌýFeel the fear of failing again, of being hurt and humiliated and further annihilated by love.

How can they take the risk of falling in love again. How can they not?

A tender, affecting novel of love, of hope, of forgiveness by one of our most fearless and truthful interpreters of the human heart, the acclaimed bestselling author ofâ€� The Slap  a²Ô»åâ€� Damascus.]]> 376 Christos Tsiolkas 1761470019 Alonso 5 3.73 2023
author: Christos Tsiolkas
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/27
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The mastery of Tsiolkas to portray intimacy with words is out of this world. This book is full of ordinary moments that become a window into the lives of the couple in this story. True to Tsiolka’s style, there’s a rawness in the story and the way these characters interact with their sexuality and past relationships. The book is beautifully written and a perfect illustration of the human condition and love experiences in the third age of people
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author: Nuril Basri
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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A very insightful read about the LGBTIQ+ community in Indonesia. I was fascinated by how the story shows the way in which queer culture is lived in a non-western country. The story is engaging and the characters are very personable.
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Eighteen year-old James has had a tough year. Having lost his mum to cancer and fought through grief to finish high school, he’s now got secret desires to contend with.

It’s Christmas in Sydney, and he’s ready to cast his worries aside for the summer holidays, a time of poolside parties, bush walks and ocean swims. But who is the seductive young man who’s moved into the spare room?

In this steamy coming-of-age novel, James and the men around him discover transformative new desires with the power to up-end lives or, possibly, unlock a brighter future.

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Nominee, 2022 Lambda Literary Awards

"Levi Huxton offers a rare reading experience: erotic, sexy and intellectually engaging." - DNA Magazine, April 2022

9.5 out of 10 - "Erotic and honest, readers will be wrapped under the spell... The author capably creates emotional depth, making the conclusion especially impactful. A poignant and thoughtful storyteller." - The 2021 BookLife Prize

"The Lodger, That Summer is a captivating, sexy, gritty, complex coming-of-age story. A perfect blend of fantasy and reality, Huxton's characters are flawed and intriguing, and his writing is smooth and addictive. I can't wait to see what he writes next." - Marley Valentine, author of Without You

"This book is not a romance and it is not intended to be one. It is, however, many other things. It is a highly charged erotic tale, a coming out story, a coming-of-age story, and a sexual awakening, but it also drives deeper to target and expose those hidden parts of a man’s soul. It is great to have found a new voice in author Levi Huxton with this debut book. His candor created not only a melancholy spirit to parts of the story, but also an atmosphere that is tinged with tension, anticipation, and hope." - Joyfully Jay

"The Lodger, That SummerÌýis Mr. Huxton’s first published work. While brief in length, it is intellectually challenging and shows great promise for the future." - Rainbow Book Reviews

"Refreshing and beautifully written, while gritty and erotic at the same time." - Reviews by Amos Lassen

"Lush, one of my top reads of 2021. This book is not for the faint of heart. Its raw clarity is probably my favorite part." - A.M. Johnson, author of Love Always, Wild

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Genre: Gay fiction, Australian fiction, coming-of-age, YA LGBT (16+), New adult, erotica, ownvoices.]]> 173 Levi Huxton Alonso 3 3.92 2021
author: Levi Huxton
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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The book was easy to read and erotic and sexy. Closer to a soft-p0rn website erotic stories than to a Pulitzer winning novel; this book is entertaining and very steaming. And as much as I enjoyed it, I do have to point out that I was very conflicted in many of the parts of the book as they romanticise s3xu4l a8us3, and I think we need to stop doing this for respect to victims of it, but also as a way to stop normalising ideas that are not okay. I do genuinely think that these parts are a product of our society and how the cis gay male community has grown up learning to fantasise about straight men giving into homoerotic thoughts. Yet, still problematic and something to work on.
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From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps through centuries as it weaves the tales of families whose fates are forever entwined with the City of Light.

As he did so brilliantly in London: The Novel and New York: The Novel, Edward Rutherfurd brings to life the most magical city in the world: Paris.

This breathtaking multigenerational saga takes readers on a journey through thousands of years of glorious Parisian history—from its founding under the Romans to the timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise against the backdrop of the building of Notre Dame; to the martyrdom of Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years War; to the dangerous manipulations of Cardinal Richelieu and the bloody religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants; to the gilded glories of Versailles; to the horrors of the French Revolution and the conquests of Napoleon; to the beauty and optimism of the belle epoque when Impressionism swept the world; to the hotbed of cultural activity of the 1920s and '30s that included Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, and the writers of the Lost Generation; to the Nazi occupation and the incredible efforts of the French Resistance.

Even more richly detailed, thrilling, and romantic then anything Rutherfurd has written before, Paris: The Novel illuminates thousands of years in the City of Lights through intimate and vivid tales of characters both fictional and true, and with them, the sights, scents, and tastes of Paris come to sumptuous life.]]> 805 Edward Rutherfurd Alonso 0 to-read 4.14 2013
author: Edward Rutherfurd
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.14
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So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X Alonso 0 to-read 3.69 2023
author: R.F. Kuang
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.69
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It's the 1950s in conservative Australia, and Christopher, a young gay man, moves to ‘the City� to escape the repressive atmosphere of his tiny hometown. Once there, however, he finds that it is just as censorial and punitive, in its own way.

Then Christopher meets Morgan, an Aboriginal man, and the two fall in love � a love that breathes truth back into Christopher’s stifled life. But the society around them remains rigid and unchanging, and what begins as a refuge for both men inevitably buckles under the intensity of navigating a world that wants them to refuse what they are.

In reviving a time that is still so recent yet so vastly different from now, Jay Carmichael has drawn on archival material, snippets of newspaper articles, and photos to create the claustrophobic environment in which these two men lived and tried to love. Told with Carmichael’s ear for sparse, poetic beauty, Marlo takes us into the heartbreaking landscape of a relationship defined as much by what is said and shared as by what has to remain unsaid, and unlived.]]> 128 Jay Carmichael 1925713695 Alonso 4 3.55 2022
author: Jay Carmichael
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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It’s a good piece to learn about the struggles of being gay and from a small town in the 50’s. Easy to read and very beautifully written
]]> 63133205 The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.

Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.]]> 288 Britney Spears 1668009048 Alonso 5 3.83 2023
author: Britney Spears
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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Britney is such an important part of my life. I grew up with her music. Reading this novel was heartbreaking. I can’t believe what she endured during her conservatorship. And yet, she shows a lot of resilience and determination in this book. She shows what a beautiful heart she still has. We don’t deserve you, Britney!!! You’re so beautiful and inspiring and I can thank you enough for giving us your music and heart!
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You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.

If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.

A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether or not he should is another matter.

Once Maurice has made his name, he finds himself in need of a fresh idea. He doesn’t care where he finds it, as long as it helps him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous, but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse.

This is a novel about ambition. ]]> 419 John Boyne Alonso 4 This novel follows Maurice Swift, a handsome man obsessed with becoming a famous writer that is willing to do anything it takes to achieve his goal, including latching on to countless people to use them for all he can get.
I found fascinating the use of multiple narrators to develop the story of Maurice while showing how greedy, manipulative and destructive he was. Boyne was able to create something unique for each of the narrators of the story and all of them were engaging and provided a unique perspective that added layers to Maurice's background, history and personality. This made the novel very layered.

I really enjoyed how, through one character, Boyne manages to explore very important themes like personal ethics, success, fame, loneliness, loyalty and how these are interlinked with each other.
The Ladder To The Sky is a compelling yet disturbing dark story that is worth reading and that will grab your attention and hold you throughout. ]]> 4.25 2018
author: John Boyne
name: Alonso
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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date added: 2023/10/24
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John Boyne is my comfort literature author. His books always engage me from start to finish, and they are always deep, layered, and very emotional. 'A ladder to the sky' is no exception to this, yet it is a very different book from the rest of Boye's books that I have read, as this is a very dark book.
This novel follows Maurice Swift, a handsome man obsessed with becoming a famous writer that is willing to do anything it takes to achieve his goal, including latching on to countless people to use them for all he can get.
I found fascinating the use of multiple narrators to develop the story of Maurice while showing how greedy, manipulative and destructive he was. Boyne was able to create something unique for each of the narrators of the story and all of them were engaging and provided a unique perspective that added layers to Maurice's background, history and personality. This made the novel very layered.

I really enjoyed how, through one character, Boyne manages to explore very important themes like personal ethics, success, fame, loneliness, loyalty and how these are interlinked with each other.
The Ladder To The Sky is a compelling yet disturbing dark story that is worth reading and that will grab your attention and hold you throughout.
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No one seems to take Naomi Pine's disappearance seriously, not even her father-with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school. Hester asks Wilde-with whom she shares a tragic connection-to use his unique skills to help find Naomi.

Wilde can't ignore an outcast in trouble, but in order to find Naomi he must venture back into the community where he has never fit in, a place where the powerful are protected even when they harbor secrets that could destroy the lives of millions . . . secrets that Wilde must uncover before it's too late.]]> 371 Harlan Coben 1538748142 Alonso 0 to-read 3.84 2020
author: Harlan Coben
name: Alonso
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2020
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