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Fadoua ?'s bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:52:40 -0800 60 Fadoua ?'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Humans 41135759
He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, the wars they witness on the news, and totally baffled by such concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. He drinks wine, reads Emily Dickinson, listens to Talking Heads, and begins to bond with the family he lives with, in disguise. In picking up the pieces of the professor's shattered personal life, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans' imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there--a mission that involves not only thwarting human progress...but murder.]]> 291 Matt Haig 1786894661 Fadoua ? 4 I love anything alien related and I love me some alien like this one. My new fictional crush is an alien whose name we don't know from a planet far far far far.... Far away ! Yey my life !]]> 4.03 2013 The Humans

author: Matt Haig
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2020/01/26
date added: 2025/02/19
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This got my heart beat, move i dont know, do all sort of things ! Can I say this is so romantic ? I dont know. What I know is that i really reallly enjoyed it !
I love anything alien related and I love me some alien like this one. My new fictional crush is an alien whose name we don't know from a planet far far far far.... Far away ! Yey my life !
]]> <![CDATA[The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)]]> 42448022
She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

The can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.]]> 464 Lisa Jewell 1780899211 Fadoua ? 4
“I’d subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.”

“All men are weak,” said Phin. “That’s the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.”

“It’s very strange, looking back, how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios. ”]]> 3.95 2019 The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)

The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)

author: Lisa Jewell
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/12
date added: 2025/02/17
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Actual rating : 3.5

“I’d subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.”

“All men are weak,” said Phin. “That’s the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.”

“It’s very strange, looking back, how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios. ”
]]> La tresse 34903981 Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Une même soif de liberté.

Inde - Smita est une Intouchable. Elle rêve de voir sa fille échapper à sa condition misérable et entrer à l’école.

Sicile - Giulia travaille dans l’atelier de son père. Lorsqu’il est victime d’un accident, elle découvre que l’entreprise familiale est ruinée.

Canada - Sarah, avocate réputée, va être promue à la tête de son cabinet quand elle apprend qu’elle est gravement malade.

Liées sans le savoir par ce qu’elles ont de plus intime et de plus singulier, Smita, Giulia et Sarah refusent le sort qui leur est destiné et décident de se battre. Vibrantes d’humanité, leurs histoires tissent une tresse d’espoir et de solidarité.]]> 224 Laetitia Colombani 2246813883 Fadoua ? 0 currently-reading 4.03 2017 La tresse

author: Laetitia Colombani
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/13
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]]> Piercing 830979 A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup

A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami; a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), TV personality, and award-winning author; has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won Japan's most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, In the Miso Soup, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In Piercing, Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children.

]]> 185 Ryū Murakami 0747593132 Fadoua ? 4 3.58 1994 Piercing

author: Ryū Murakami
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/05
date added: 2025/02/12
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“Everyone’s running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what’s really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.”
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author: Osamah M. Al Muslim - ????? ??????
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/27
date added: 2025/02/12
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Actual rating : 2.5

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]]> Normal People 123265538
Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation – awkward but electrifying – something life-changing begins.

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t.]]> 284 Sally Rooney Fadoua ? 4
The lack of communication between the characters is irritating but so real . As human beings , we are irritating, we do not communicate what we think and feel , and only when it’s too late do we regret not saying what we wanted to say . We are disgusting , we are mentally unstable and we do everything we can to ruin our own lives . It is normal . ( probably not)

Favorite quotes:

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves,”

“I mean, when you look at the lives men are really living, it’s sad, Marianne says. They control the whole social system and this is the best they can come up with for themselves? They’re not even having fun.”

“Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence? ”

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”

“They went to a protest against the war in Gaza”

]]> 3.81 2018 Normal People

author: Sally Rooney
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/29
date added: 2025/02/10
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I dived into this book with absolutely no idea of what it is about and I enjoyed it very very very much . I think this book is simple and to the point . It’s neither complex nor deep . It is NORMaL . I’m in love with the author’s writing style . It’s simple yet beautiful. The characters were very interesting and the story compelling.

The lack of communication between the characters is irritating but so real . As human beings , we are irritating, we do not communicate what we think and feel , and only when it’s too late do we regret not saying what we wanted to say . We are disgusting , we are mentally unstable and we do everything we can to ruin our own lives . It is normal . ( probably not)

Favorite quotes:

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves,”

“I mean, when you look at the lives men are really living, it’s sad, Marianne says. They control the whole social system and this is the best they can come up with for themselves? They’re not even having fun.”

“Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence? ”

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”

“They went to a protest against the war in Gaza”

]]> The Vegetarian 30269102
“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ? “Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)
“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff
“Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington Post

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself.

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.

A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly]]> 188 Han Kang 1101906111 Fadoua ? 0
All I can say is that this book is sad . I do not totally understand it and maybe I do not understand it at all , but I felt something and I think that says a lot . I kept thinking about it the whole day !

“Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves—living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they’d briefly managed to forget.”

]]> 3.59 2007 The Vegetarian

author: Han Kang
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2007
rating: 0
read at: 2025/02/09
date added: 2025/02/09
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What do you rate a book that won a Nobel Prize? And would my opinion have been any different if I had read it before it won ?

All I can say is that this book is sad . I do not totally understand it and maybe I do not understand it at all , but I felt something and I think that says a lot . I kept thinking about it the whole day !

“Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves—living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they’d briefly managed to forget.”

]]> The Husbands 193781998 An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options?

When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years.

As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually?living?]]> 352 Holly Gramazio 0385550618 Fadoua ? 3
My favorite quotes :

“ You’re only as old as you feel.”

“There is a time, she thinks, at the start of any relationship, when the process of falling in love softens a personality, like wax in a warm room. And so two people in love change, just a little, pushing their wax figures together, a protuberance here smoothed down but creating a dip there. It doesn’t last long, the time when love can gently change who you are”

“Being happy to be single had felt obligatory, a statement of feminism or autonomy or just a way to head off coupled friends who she didn’t want feeling sorry for her. The weight of that requirement had made it difficult, sometimes, to figure out how she really felt.”

]]> 3.50 2024 The Husbands

author: Holly Gramazio
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/02/08
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A great premise and a beautiful message, but this book didn’t need to be 400 pages . The length ruined the experience as it was very repetitive.

My favorite quotes :

“ You’re only as old as you feel.”

“There is a time, she thinks, at the start of any relationship, when the process of falling in love softens a personality, like wax in a warm room. And so two people in love change, just a little, pushing their wax figures together, a protuberance here smoothed down but creating a dip there. It doesn’t last long, the time when love can gently change who you are”

“Being happy to be single had felt obligatory, a statement of feminism or autonomy or just a way to head off coupled friends who she didn’t want feeling sorry for her. The weight of that requirement had made it difficult, sometimes, to figure out how she really felt.”

]]> <![CDATA[Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness]]> 183206435
His first book, Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness, is a collection of never-before-published poems written together with his long-time friend Kenza Samir. Flowing across 168 pages, the provocative musings translate Graham's wit and talent for wordplay into potent stanzas. Together, these meditations on fame, romance, and relationships offer an unfiltered view of the artist’s inner world.]]> 168 Aubrey Graham 1838665161 Fadoua ? 1 poetry-collections
This book was hilarious and definitely not in a good way .

Here are some quotes:

“I can’t read the signs hun
I left my glasses at home”

“There are two types of women in this world,
women who like giving head and women who I don’t like
”

“I told her I’m going crazy, she said without me?”

“Your taste in men isn’t exactly Michelin star
Saved you in my phone as never again just so I don’t forget
”

“Swimming in regret
is not cardio
”

“My therapist told me I need to stop listening to what people tell me
but if I take her advice would’t I be listening to what people tell me?”

“Countries go to war over misunderstandings –
you should be happy I go to Miami
”

“If jumping to conclusions was an Olympic sport
you wouldn’t have just won my heart but you would have won gold”

“No one is gaslighting you
You’re just so toxic that you’re flammable”

“Their insecurities are the main reason why I increase my security”

“one sided beef is not beef...it’s chicken”

“Tell Guinness I know who the most annoying b!tch is”]]> 2.35 2023 Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness

Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness

author: Aubrey Graham
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 2.35
book published: 2023
rating: 1
read at: 2024/02/27
date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: poetry-collections
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We live in a world where celebrities with lots of money could probably send a book with nothing but white pages to publishers and get published . ( and call it a stream of consciousness)

This book was hilarious and definitely not in a good way .

Here are some quotes:

“I can’t read the signs hun
I left my glasses at home”

“There are two types of women in this world,
women who like giving head and women who I don’t like
”

“I told her I’m going crazy, she said without me?”

“Your taste in men isn’t exactly Michelin star
Saved you in my phone as never again just so I don’t forget
”

“Swimming in regret
is not cardio
”

“My therapist told me I need to stop listening to what people tell me
but if I take her advice would’t I be listening to what people tell me?”

“Countries go to war over misunderstandings –
you should be happy I go to Miami
”

“If jumping to conclusions was an Olympic sport
you wouldn’t have just won my heart but you would have won gold”

“No one is gaslighting you
You’re just so toxic that you’re flammable”

“Their insecurities are the main reason why I increase my security”

“one sided beef is not beef...it’s chicken”

“Tell Guinness I know who the most annoying b!tch is”
]]> <![CDATA[If We Ever Meet Again (If Love, #1)]]> 83818248
19-year-old Farrah Lin is going to fall in love for the first time during her year abroad in Shanghai. She's sure of it.

The only problem? Her would-be leading man is her new friend’s boyfriend.

There’s nothing worse than being in love with someone you can’t have...or at least, she thinks it’s love.

But if that’s true, why can’t she stop fantasizing about someone else, specifically the cocky blond athlete with the world’s biggest ego (and greatest dimples)?

***
Blake Ryan is—was—a college football star who shocked the sports world when he quit after his third national championship. Instead of dealing with the fallout, he escapes to Shanghai, where he vows to keep life simple.

No football. No commitments. No romance.

But no matter how hard he tries, he can’t keep a certain beautiful brunette off his mind...or out of his heart.

What starts as a physical attraction develops into something much deeper as Blake and Farrah get swept up in the magic of Shanghai—and each other. But they only have one year, and there are forces outside their control that threaten to rip them apart.

Can their relationship survive the test...or was it just not meant to be?

WARNING: This is the first book in a duet. It's a full-length novel with no sudden cliffhangers, but Blake and Farrah’s story concludes in book two, If the Sun Never Sets, which takes place five years later.

If We Ever Meet Again is a steamy strangers to friends to lovers romance. Recommended for 18+ due to adult language and explicit content.]]> 294 Ana Huang Fadoua ? 0 3.53 2020 If We Ever Meet Again (If Love, #1)

author: Ana Huang
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/13
date added: 2025/01/13
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]]> 颁耻濒辞迟迟é别蝉 31915456 Pénélope Bagieu brosse avec humour et finesse quinze portraits de femmes, combattantes hors normes, qui ont bravé la pression sociale de leur époque pour mener la vie de leur choix.]]> 144 Pénélope Bagieu 2070601382 Fadoua ? 5
Here are my favorite stories :

- Josephina van Gorkum

- Giorgina Reid

- Leymah Gbowee

- Agnodice

- Delia Akeley

- Margaret Hamilton ]]> 4.60 2016 颁耻濒辞迟迟é别蝉

author: Pénélope Bagieu
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/12
date added: 2025/01/12
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I cried twice reading this beautiful book !!

Here are my favorite stories :

- Josephina van Gorkum

- Giorgina Reid

- Leymah Gbowee

- Agnodice

- Delia Akeley

- Margaret Hamilton
]]> The Fury 141310660 Totally original and utterly compelling, with a voice all of its own, this is the outstanding new thriller from the no.1 internationally bestselling author of The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides.

This is a tale of murder.
Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it?

One spring morning, reclusive ex-movie star Lana Farrar invites a small group of her closest friends for a weekend away, on her small private island, just off the coast of Mykonos.

Beneath the surface, old friendships conceal violent passions and resentments. And in forty-eight hours, one of them will be dead.

But that was just the beginning...

You may think you know this story. Think again.]]> 357 Alex Michaelides 0241575540 Fadoua ? 3
Fast paced as usual.His books are fun and the short chapters encourage you to read the whole thing . I have read all of his three novels ( that I know of ) and I can totally see Agatha Christie’s influence. Unfortunately, this one didn’t feel like a story worth telling . Looking forward to what he is up to next though.

Here are two of my favorite quotes :

“It is not unnatural that the best writers are liars. A major part of their trade is to lie or invent and they will lie when they are drunk, or to themselves, or to strangers.
—ERNEST HEMINGWAY”

“I’m not hotheaded. When I become angry, I don’t rage—I sit down, quietly, very still, armed with pen and paper—and plot my revenge with ice-cold precision. I skewered her with that play, exposing our relationship as a sham, and Barbara as the vain, ridiculous old fool that she was.”]]> 3.32 2024 The Fury

author: Alex Michaelides
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.32
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/16
date added: 2025/01/11
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Actual rating : 2.5

Fast paced as usual.His books are fun and the short chapters encourage you to read the whole thing . I have read all of his three novels ( that I know of ) and I can totally see Agatha Christie’s influence. Unfortunately, this one didn’t feel like a story worth telling . Looking forward to what he is up to next though.

Here are two of my favorite quotes :

“It is not unnatural that the best writers are liars. A major part of their trade is to lie or invent and they will lie when they are drunk, or to themselves, or to strangers.
—ERNEST HEMINGWAY”

“I’m not hotheaded. When I become angry, I don’t rage—I sit down, quietly, very still, armed with pen and paper—and plot my revenge with ice-cold precision. I skewered her with that play, exposing our relationship as a sham, and Barbara as the vain, ridiculous old fool that she was.”
]]> My Killer Vacation 60191114 295 Tessa Bailey Fadoua ? 1
The only funny line was this one ( in its context) :

“She sniffs. “You should know that sarcasm makes me shut down. There was a very sarcastic bully who lived next door to us growing up. He called me Shaquille O’Neal in front of the whole neighborhood. All because I was short. I couldn’t walk by without him demanding I dunk on their hoop in the street. To this day, I cry every time I see Shaq, which is very unfair. By all accounts, he’s a lovely man.”
]]> 3.56 2022 My Killer Vacation

author: Tessa Bailey
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2025/01/11
date added: 2025/01/11
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This book is a joke , and not a funny one . I cannot believe that someone decided that this is an actual story and that it is worth publishing ! The cringe is real with this one !

The only funny line was this one ( in its context) :

“She sniffs. “You should know that sarcasm makes me shut down. There was a very sarcastic bully who lived next door to us growing up. He called me Shaquille O’Neal in front of the whole neighborhood. All because I was short. I couldn’t walk by without him demanding I dunk on their hoop in the street. To this day, I cry every time I see Shaq, which is very unfair. By all accounts, he’s a lovely man.”

]]> <![CDATA[Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...]]> 4894
Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "Littlepeople" — beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.

"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life — whether it's a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind.

And the "Maze" is where you look for what you want — the organisation you work in or the family or community you live in.

In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deals with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the Maze walls.

When you come to see "The Handwriting on the Wall," you can discover for yourself how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success (however you define it) in your work and in your life.

Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.]]> 98 Spencer Johnson 0091883768 Fadoua ? 0 non-fiction 3.88 1999 Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...

Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...

author: Spencer Johnson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1999
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/06
date added: 2025/01/06
shelves: non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)]]> 8488208
Nobody in their right minds would listen to this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay at the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded on this CD.
I can think of no reason why anyone would want to listen to a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the Duluxe Cell, and some very strange hats.
I also shouldn't mention the interactive features of the CD, which include:
A perplexing word game
Photos from The Lemony Snicket Archives
Art from The Brett Helquist gallery
It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire children's lives and write them all down, but you may decide to do some other sacred and solemn thing, such as listening to another book instead.

With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket]]> 256 Lemony Snicket 1405249595 Fadoua ? 0 1st reread 3.95 2001 The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)

The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)

author: Lemony Snicket
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2001
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/02
date added: 2025/01/02
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]]> <![CDATA[The Addams Family Charlatan's Web #1 CVR B Samu]]> 206738887 32 Leah Williams Fadoua ? 0 3.33

The Addams Family Charlatan's Web #1 CVR B Samu

author: Leah Williams
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.33
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]]> <![CDATA[ADDAMS FAMILY CHARLATANS WEB #2 CVR A FLORES]]> 207812022 32 Juan Samu Fadoua ? 0 4.00

ADDAMS FAMILY CHARLATANS WEB #2 CVR A FLORES

author: Juan Samu
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[Addams Family: The Bodies Issue]]> 139062653 34 Zoe Quinn Fadoua ? 0 3.25

author: Zoe Quinn
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.25
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]]> Daddy Daughter Day 51650700 Ask any father, or any daughter--the relationship between dads and daughters is special, and vitally important.

To a whole generation of filmgoers, Jeff Bridges is "the Dude," but to a more important group of people he is "Dad." The actor-musician-artist and one of his real-life daughters have teamed up to produce a book to inspire fathers and daughters--and whole families--to find the joy and closeness in their relationships.

When Belle announces to Dad that this day is "Daddy Daughter Day," it sparks a series of adventures that turns the house and the backyard into a clay work shop, a beauty parlor, and even a circus, with Mom and little brother Sammie getting involved!

Written by Isabelle Bridges-Boesch, and illustrated by Jeff himself, this is a book for daughters, fathers, and families to treasure all their lives!]]> 56 Isabelle Bridges-Boesch 1506718086 Fadoua ? 1 Weird and disturbing 3.01 2020 Daddy Daughter Day

author: Isabelle Bridges-Boesch
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.01
book published: 2020
rating: 1
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Weird and disturbing
]]> A Tale of Two Cats 43785936 28 Ayin Hillel 1683962664 Fadoua ? 0 2.98

author: Ayin Hillel
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 2.98
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]]> <![CDATA[One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)]]> 6473205
Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery.

Turning to the other patients for answers, Poirot finds other, darker, questions.…]]> 224 Agatha Christie Fadoua ? 0 christie-finished
“In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerable to temptation. ”

]]> 4.03 1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1940
rating: 0
read at: 2024/02/18
date added: 2024/12/20
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“A momentary resentment rose in Poirot at this offhand coupling of names. Mr. Morley was a good dentist, yes, but there were other good dentists in London. There was only one Hercule Poirot.”

“In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerable to temptation. ”

]]> Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4) 62058385
Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.

He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.

She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can't refuse.

Every monster has their weakness. She's his.

His obsession.

His addiction.

His only exception.

***

Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.

Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.

But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms―and house―of the most dangerous man she's ever met, she's tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.

Because despite Christian's cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she's with him.

Passionate.

Protected.

Truly wanted.

Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.]]> 560 Ana Huang 1728274893 Fadoua ? 1 4.12 2022 Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4)

author: Ana Huang
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
rating: 1
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]]> Alena 13504184 120 Kim W. Andersson Fadoua ? 0 3.05 2012 Alena

author: Kim W. Andersson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.05
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)]]> 8702292
Within the chapters of this story, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire encounter a darkened staircase, a red herring, some friends in a dire situation, three mysterious initials, a liar with an evil scheme, a secret passageway, and parsley soda.]]> 259 Lemony Snicket 1405249587 Fadoua ? 0

“If you are ever forced to take a chemistry class, you will probably see, at the front of the classroom, a large chart divided into squares, with different numbers and letters in each of them. This chart is called the table of the elements, and scientists like to say that it contains all the substances that make up our world. Like everyone else, scientists are wrong from time to time, and it is easy to see that they are wrong about the table of the elements. Because although this table contains a great many elements, from the element oxygen, which is found in the air, to the element aluminum, which is found in cans of soda, the table of the elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise. ”
]]> 4.05 2001 The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)

The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)

author: Lemony Snicket
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2001
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/08
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I had chills reading this book !!

“If you are ever forced to take a chemistry class, you will probably see, at the front of the classroom, a large chart divided into squares, with different numbers and letters in each of them. This chart is called the table of the elements, and scientists like to say that it contains all the substances that make up our world. Like everyone else, scientists are wrong from time to time, and it is easy to see that they are wrong about the table of the elements. Because although this table contains a great many elements, from the element oxygen, which is found in the air, to the element aluminum, which is found in cans of soda, the table of the elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise. ”

]]> <![CDATA[At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)]]> 9572483 At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events.

An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.…

When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service, and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly-polished veneer.

Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day.…]]> 251 Agatha Christie 0062073699 Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished She paused.
“But of course, it wasn’t really like that. I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?”

“That’s not the same thing. Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God.”

“Yes,” said Miss Marple. “The children of Lucifer are often beautiful—And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree.”

]]> 3.51 1965 At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1965
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/23
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“It seemed wonderful at first—unchanged you know—like stepping back into the past—to the part of the past that one had loved and enjoyed.”
She paused.
“But of course, it wasn’t really like that. I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?”

“That’s not the same thing. Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God.”

“Yes,” said Miss Marple. “The children of Lucifer are often beautiful—And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree.”

]]> The Silent Patient 45360527
When she shot her husband in the head five times.

Since then she hasn't spoken a single word.

It's time to find out why.]]> 352 Alex Michaelides 1409181634 Fadoua ? 4
Actual rating : 3.25/3.5

I want to thank Sisi for gifting me her own copy … I’ll cherish it with all my heart ?? .

This book was fast paced and very intriguing. It keeps you on your toes wanting to know more … as for the plot twist … if only I hadn’t read a certain agatha christie book that made me acquainted with such reveal , I think then I would have enjoyed the twist a lot better …but it’s very very intriguing..]]> 4.06 2019 The Silent Patient

author: Alex Michaelides
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2023/05/07
date added: 2024/11/24
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Physical tbr: #attempt 24

Actual rating : 3.25/3.5

I want to thank Sisi for gifting me her own copy … I’ll cherish it with all my heart ?? .

This book was fast paced and very intriguing. It keeps you on your toes wanting to know more … as for the plot twist … if only I hadn’t read a certain agatha christie book that made me acquainted with such reveal , I think then I would have enjoyed the twist a lot better …but it’s very very intriguing..
]]> Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 257213 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet, en cinq actes en prose.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme nous raconte l'histoire comique d'un riche bourgeois qui essaye d'imiter la fa?on de vivre et le comportement des nobles.]]> 240 惭辞濒颈è谤别 2038716617 Fadoua ? 4 classics Soooooo funny. I loved it !!! 3.72 1670 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

author: 惭辞濒颈è谤别
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1670
rating: 4
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Soooooo funny. I loved it !!!
]]> Behind Her Eyes 57600598 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Don’t Trust This Book
Don’t Trust These People
Don’t Trust Yourself

Louise

Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job. But all that changes when she meets…

David

Young, successful and charming – Louise cannot believe a man like him would look at her twice let alone be attracted to her. But that all comes to a grinding halt when she meets his wife…

Adele

Beautiful, elegant and sweet – Louise's new friend seems perfect in every way. As she becomes obsessed by this flawless couple, entangled in the intricate web of their marriage, they each, in turn, reach out to her.

But only when she gets to know them both does she begin to see the cracks… Is David really the man she thought she knew and is Adele as vulnerable as she appears?

Just what terrible secrets are they both hiding and how far will they go to keep them?]]> 384 Sarah Pinborough 0008131996 Fadoua ? 4 Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh !!! 3.92 2017 Behind Her Eyes

author: Sarah Pinborough
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/26
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Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh !!!
]]> <![CDATA[Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]> 356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 Fadoua ? 1 4.28 2021 Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)

Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)

author: Lynn Painter
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 1
read at: 2024/09/17
date added: 2024/10/23
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]]> <![CDATA[Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?]]> 18070641
First published in Epoch, Fall 1966. Included in Prize Stories: O Henry Award Winners (1968), and The Best American Short Stories (1967).

Her name was Connie. She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right. Her mother, who noticed everything and knew everything...]]> 20 Joyce Carol Oates Fadoua ? 4 I like it !]]> 3.96 1966 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

author: Joyce Carol Oates
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1966
rating: 4
read at: 2016/02/02
date added: 2024/10/15
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OMG !!! That was creepy as hell !!!
I like it !
]]> <![CDATA[The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)]]> 19975692 As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School: they can′t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school′s motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett′s Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.

Ages 10+

]]> 231 Lemony Snicket Fadoua ? 0 What I’m happy about though is how the books are getting longer and longer!!

“Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.”

]]> 4.16 2000 The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)

The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)

author: Lemony Snicket
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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This is getting darker and makes me feel so uncomfortable.
What I’m happy about though is how the books are getting longer and longer!!

“Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.”

]]> The Girl in the Video 50391580 This is Horror comes a new nightmare for the digital age.

After a teacher receives a weirdly arousing video, his life descends into paranoia and obsession. More videos follow - each containing information no stranger could possibly know. But who's sending them? And what do they want? The answers may destroy everything and everyone he loves.

The Girl in the Video is The Ring meets Fatal Attraction for the iPhone generation.]]> 108 Michael David Wilson 1943720436 Fadoua ? 3 3.27 2020

author: Michael David Wilson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/13
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]]> <![CDATA[No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #18)]]> 98653245
Up until now, middle school hasn’t exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he’s not too broken up about it.

But when Greg realizes this means he’s going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it’s shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?]]> 224 Jeff Kinney 1419766945 Fadoua ? 0 4.12 2023 No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #18)

author: Jeff Kinney
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2024/09/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Room 13 And Other Ghost Stories]]> 49292798 72 M.R. James 0230035124 Fadoua ? 0 classics 2.95 1904

author: M.R. James
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 2.95
book published: 1904
rating: 0
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A classic horror book . it's gripping but the horror is on the light side! Enjoyable still.
]]> <![CDATA[The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)]]> 65119
I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log.

The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons.

I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket]]> 194 Lemony Snicket 0439272637 Fadoua ? 0 Now this book felt more like a quick something that happened because It wasn't as long as the other ones. That is, the plot didn't take time to progress. Everything happened so fast and we didn't get to see or hear a lot of Count Olaf's sinister words and actions. Of course he had a sinister plan, but it didn't drag for too long.
However, this book was shocking.The events, though short, were creepy !!
I definitely enjoyed my time and I'm definitely reading the next book.]]> 3.87 2000 The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)

The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)

author: Lemony Snicket
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2000
rating: 0
read at: 2024/09/01
date added: 2024/09/01
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Is it just me or the fact that Count Olaf was disguised as a woman was creepyyyyy as hell !!!!!
Now this book felt more like a quick something that happened because It wasn't as long as the other ones. That is, the plot didn't take time to progress. Everything happened so fast and we didn't get to see or hear a lot of Count Olaf's sinister words and actions. Of course he had a sinister plan, but it didn't drag for too long.
However, this book was shocking.The events, though short, were creepy !!
I definitely enjoyed my time and I'm definitely reading the next book.
]]> Scanlines 57687640
Or so the story goes. In truth, no one has ever seen the supposed Duncan Tape, presumably because it doesn’t exist. It’s a ghost story perpetuated on the forums and chat rooms of the internet, another handful of bytes scattered across the Information Superhighway at blistering 56K modem speeds.

For Robby and his friends, an urban legend is the last thing on their minds when a boring Friday night presents a chance to download porn. But the short clip they watch turns out to be something far more graphic and disturbing, and in the coming days, they’ll learn even the most outlandish urban legends possess a shred of truth…]]> 83 Todd Keisling Fadoua ? 3 3.67 2020 Scanlines

author: Todd Keisling
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/31
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]]> The Gift 63945326 It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke.

She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade.

Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?

The Gift is a gripping Christmas-themed thriller inspired by the classic O. Henry tale, The Gift of the Magi.]]> 47 Freida McFadden Fadoua ? 0 3.24 2022

author: Freida McFadden
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.24
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at: 2024/08/31
date added: 2024/08/31
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]]> Beauty in Winter (Beauty, #4) 34915847
Reid Gold has been cursed. He's the alpha shifter, but he's unable to change into his wolf and lead his pack. But one scent of his mate and everything changes.

Warning: This Beauty and the Beast-inspired story is quick, filthy, and over-the-top alpha. Hold on to your Kindles because Reid's inner beast finally gets to come out and play.]]> 60 Alexa Riley Fadoua ? 0 3.59 2017 Beauty in Winter (Beauty, #4)

author: Alexa Riley
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2024/08/31
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]]> Beauty in Autumn (Beauty, #3) 34857509 Inspired by the story of Beauty and the Beast, a short and sexy interpretation of the classic fairy tale…

For years untold, there has always been a beast in the cursed forest. Every year at the Harvest Festival, a new bride is sent to him... never to return. But when Willow is chosen to be the newest bride, she seeks out the help of the local wise woman.

Willow might be able to break the curse, but to do so, she must refrain from looking at the beast entirely. It sounds easy enough, but as things get heated between them, can she keep her promise? Or will she need to see who — and what — she's bedding first?]]> 70 Ruby Dixon Fadoua ? 0 3.77 2017 Beauty in Autumn (Beauty, #3)

author: Ruby Dixon
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2024/08/31
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]]> A Little Life 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 Fadoua ? 5
Hanya Yanagihara's writing style is DELICIOUS. I want some of that in every book I'm reading!!

This book was heavy but so important . I feel like only the people who are triggered by the content , and who haven't probably checked the trigger warnings, would dislike this book .
I personally didn't cry but I was angry , sad , disgusted and shocked by so many things. This book has given me the space to reflect on childhood trauma and how it is very difficult to change someone's ideas about themselves if they were taught and had experienced nothing but horrible things in their childhood.
Overall , This was very good and please check the trigger warnings .]]> 4.36 2015 A Little Life

author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2023/06/23
date added: 2024/07/01
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Actual rating : 4.5 stars

Hanya Yanagihara's writing style is DELICIOUS. I want some of that in every book I'm reading!!

This book was heavy but so important . I feel like only the people who are triggered by the content , and who haven't probably checked the trigger warnings, would dislike this book .
I personally didn't cry but I was angry , sad , disgusted and shocked by so many things. This book has given me the space to reflect on childhood trauma and how it is very difficult to change someone's ideas about themselves if they were taught and had experienced nothing but horrible things in their childhood.
Overall , This was very good and please check the trigger warnings .
]]> The Grownup 26025580
“The Grownup,” originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology.]]> 64 Gillian Flynn 0804188971 Fadoua ? 3 I can't wait to read Sharp objects and Gone girl (i've seen the movie when it came out and never forgot about it ever since)

Edit : 1st reread

I don’t feel the same way I did when I first read it 4 years ago … i think it was okay … ]]> 3.55 2014 The Grownup

author: Gillian Flynn
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2024/05/26
date added: 2024/05/26
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Woow, I finally got a taste of Gillian flynn's writing style and world and omg !! This was so good! I got to feel and think so many things in a short period of time !!
I can't wait to read Sharp objects and Gone girl (i've seen the movie when it came out and never forgot about it ever since)

Edit : 1st reread

I don’t feel the same way I did when I first read it 4 years ago … i think it was okay …
]]> The Closet #1 61209631 38 James Tynion IV Fadoua ? 4 3.88 2022

author: James Tynion IV
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/02/27
date added: 2024/05/01
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]]> The Do-Over 51035594 In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the worst Valentine’s Day ever—only to relive it over and over again.

After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her own bed—and it’s Valentine’s Day all over again. And the next day? Another nightmare V-Day.

Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can’t wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. In addition to Josh’s recurring infidelity, Emilie can’t get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into—sometimes literally—in unfortunate ways.

How many days can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something good starts to come out of these terrible days, what happens when the universe stops doling out do-overs?]]> 304 Lynn Painter Fadoua ? 0 3.93 2022 The Do-Over

author: Lynn Painter
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at: 2024/04/30
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]]> <![CDATA[Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)]]> 58419108
Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall…or maybe she’s just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a “What are you wearing?” text from a random wrong number turns into the hottest, most entertaining—albeit anonymous—relationship of her life, she thinks things might be on the upswing….

Colin Beck has always considered Olivia his best friend’s annoying little sister, but when she moves in with them after one of her worst runs of luck, he realizes she’s turned into an altogether different and sexier distraction. He’s sure he can keep his distance, until the moment he discovers she’s the irresistible Miss Misdial he’s been sort of sexting for weeks—and now he has to decide whether to turn the heat up or ghost her before things get messy.]]> 350 Lynn Painter Fadoua ? 0 3.67 2022 Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

author: Lynn Painter
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at: 2024/04/26
date added: 2024/04/26
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]]> Twisted Hate (Twisted, #3) 60618028
Gorgeous, cocky, and fast on his way to becoming a hotshot doctor, Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn't charm - except for Jules f**king Ambrose.

The beautiful redhead has been a thorn in his side since they met, but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has.

When their animosity explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes a solution that'll get her out of his system once and for all: an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules.

No jealousy.
No strings attached.
And absolutely no falling in love.

***

Outgoing and ambitious, Jules Ambrose is a former party girl who's focused on one thing: passing the attorney's bar exam.

The last thing she needs is to get involved with a doctor who puts the SUFFER in insufferable . . . no matter how good-looking he is.

But the more she gets to know him, the more she realizes there's more than meets the eye to the man she's hated for so long.

Her best friend's brother.
Her nemesis.
And her only salvation.

Theirs is a match made in hell, and when the demons from their past catch up with them, they're faced with truths that could either save them . . . or destroy everything they've worked for.

Twisted Hate is a steamy enemies with benefits/enemies to lovers romance. It's book three in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.

Warning: It contains explicit content and profanity. Recommended for 18+]]> 515 Ana Huang 0349434328 Fadoua ? 0 3.97 2022 Twisted Hate (Twisted, #3)

author: Ana Huang
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at: 2024/04/26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)]]> 438492
If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair. I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket]]> 214 Lemony Snicket 0064407683 Fadoua ? 3
Edit : 18/03/2024 1st reread

“Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.]]> 3.96 2000 The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)

The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)

author: Lemony Snicket
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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Sunny is a hero !!

Edit : 18/03/2024 1st reread

“Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.
]]> <![CDATA[The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)]]> 78411
I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.

With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket]]> 162 Lemony Snicket 0439206472 Fadoua ? 4 This was intriguing , scary , funny , sweet and sad . What do I want more ?!!
Definitely reading the next book!

Edit: 14/03/2024 first reread

“it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.”

“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. ”]]> 4.02 1999 The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

author: Lemony Snicket
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/14
date added: 2024/03/15
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I have felt so much joy watching the movie as a kid , and now that I get to read the whole series I'm feeling happier !
This was intriguing , scary , funny , sweet and sad . What do I want more ?!!
Definitely reading the next book!

Edit: 14/03/2024 first reread

“it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.”

“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. ”
]]> <![CDATA[The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)]]> 78418
If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.

In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odor, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the appearance of a person they'd hoped never to see again.

I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket]]> 192 Lemony Snicket Fadoua ? 4
Edit : 16/03/2024 1st reread

Feeling worse than the first time :,(

“We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things. ”

“How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.”

“My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.”

“Roofik!” Sunny agreed. ”

“Sometimes, when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.”

]]> 4.02 1999 The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)

The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)

author: Lemony Snicket
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/15
date added: 2024/03/15
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So sad !! I love Uncle Monty !

Edit : 16/03/2024 1st reread

Feeling worse than the first time :,(

“We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things. ”

“How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.”

“My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.”

“Roofik!” Sunny agreed. ”

“Sometimes, when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.”

]]> Almond 52219386 This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster.?

One of the monsters is me.

Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and grandmother aren’t fazed by his condition. Their little home above his mother’s used bookstore is decorated with colorful post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say "thank you," and when to laugh. Yunjae grows up content, even happy, with his small family in this quiet, peaceful space.

Then on Christmas Eve—Yunjae’s sixteenth birthday—everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him alone and on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon arrives at his school and begins to bully Yunjae.?

Against all odds, tormentor and victim learn they have more in common than they realized. Gon is stumped by Yunjae’s impassive calm, while Yunjae thinks if he gets to know the hotheaded Gon, he might learn how to experience true feelings. Drawn by curiosity, the two strike up a surprising friendship. As Yunjae begins to open his life to new people—including a girl at school—something slowly changes inside him. And when Gon suddenly finds his life in danger, it is Yunjae who will step outside of every comfort zone he has created to perhaps become a most unlikely hero.?

The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and persistence can change a life forever.]]> 272 Sohn Won-Pyung 0062961373 Fadoua ? 5 4.16 2017 Almond

author: Sohn Won-Pyung
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/13
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]]> Ms Ice Sandwich 32927264 A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.

Ms Ice Sandwich seems to lack social graces, but our young narrator is totally smitten with her. He is in awe of her aloofness, her skill at slipping sandwiches into bags, and, most electric of all, her ice-blue eyelids. Every day he is drawn to the supermarket just to watch her in action. But life has a way of interfering – there is his mother, forever distracted, who can tell the fortunes of women; his grandmother, silently dying, who listens to his heart; and his classmate, Tutti, no stranger to pain, who shares her private thrilling world with him.

Tender, warm, yet unsentimental, Ms Ice Sandwich is a story about new starts, parents who have departed, and the importance of saying goodbye.]]> 92 Mieko Kawakami 1782273301 Fadoua ? 3 3.76 2013

author: Mieko Kawakami
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/06
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]]> Parker Pyne Investigates 278237
Curious? Then you're invited to read ... 'Parker Pyne Investigates'. In the US, known as, 'Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective'. Two titles, same great short stories. In fact 12 of them!

Our detective's personal ad posed a simple question, 'Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne'. The answer was a resounding 'I am not happy' for a jealous wife who suspects her husband of infidelity, for a lonely widow driven to assume a new identity, for a distraught mother whose son has been kidnapped, and for a strangely reclusive bride-to-be. But what sort of detective would solicit in the personal column? The sort who has a knack for investigating affairs of the heart. For therein lie the darkest motives for murder. And they are proving most lucrative for the hopelessly romantic, and highly suspicious, Parker Pyne.

The 12 stories are: 1. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife, 2. The Case of the Discontented Soldier, 3. The Case of the Distressed Lady, 4. The Case of the Discontented Husband, 5. The Case of the City Clerk, 6. The Case of the Rich Woman, 7. Have You Got Everything You Want?, 8. The Gate of Bagdad, 9. The House at Shiraz, 10. The Pearl of Price, 11. Death on the Nile, and 12. The Oracle at Delphi.

Librarian's note #1. the short story, Death on the Nile in this compilation starring Parker Pyne, should not be mistaken with the novel, Death on the Nile starring Hercule Poirot. Both by Christie.

Librarian's note #2: there are two more Parker Pyne stories in other collections. The stories are titled: 'The Regatta Mystery' and 'Problem at Pollensa Bay'. Including these two, there are 14 Pyne stories for your reading pleasure.

Librarian's note #3: this is the entry for the collection of 12 short stories, "Parker Pyne Investigates' ('Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective'). Entries for each of the individual stories are located elsewhere on 欧宝娱乐. All 14 can be found by searching 欧宝娱乐 for: 'a Parker Pyne Short Story'.]]> 320 Agatha Christie 0007154828 Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished
“The General looked at him curiously and said, ‘Who are you, I wonder? You take command, yet you are not a soldier.’
‘I have seen a good deal of life,’ said Mr Parker Pyne.

‘You have travelled, eh?’
‘No,’ said Mr Parker Pyne. ‘I have sat in an office.”
]]> 3.80 1934 Parker Pyne Investigates

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1934
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/03
date added: 2024/03/03
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Getting introduced to a new detective ! This was very different from anything I’ve read by her before .

“The General looked at him curiously and said, ‘Who are you, I wonder? You take command, yet you are not a soldier.’
‘I have seen a good deal of life,’ said Mr Parker Pyne.

‘You have travelled, eh?’
‘No,’ said Mr Parker Pyne. ‘I have sat in an office.”

]]> <![CDATA[The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)]]> 60487511
After agreeing they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie realize they’re each other’s perfect wing-person in their searches for The One. They text each other about their dates, often scheduling them at the same restaurant so that if things don’t go well, the two of them can get tacos afterward.

Spoiler: they get a lot of tacos together.

Discouraged by the lack of prospects, Jack and Hallie make a wager to see who can find true love first, but when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off. As they pretend to be a couple, lines become blurred and they both struggle to remember why the other was a bad idea to begin with.]]> 315 Lynn Painter 0593437292 Fadoua ? 0 3.86 2023 The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

author: Lynn Painter
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2024/02/04
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]]> Gone to See the River Man 52373510
These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers.

Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than twenty women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it.

She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.

Edmund tells her she must go to his cabin in the woods of Killen and retrieve a key to deliver to a mysterious figure known only as The River Man.

In her quest, she brings along her handicapped sister, and they journey through the deep, dark valley, beginning their trip upriver. The trip quickly becomes a surreal nightmare, one that digs up Lori’s personal demons, the ones she feels bonds her to Edmund. The river runs with flesh, the cabin is a vault of horrors, and ghostly blues music echoes through the mountains. Soon they will learn that The River Man is not quite fact or folklore, and definitely not human -- at least, not anymore. And the key is just the beginning of what is required of Lori to prove she’s worthy of a madman’s love.]]> 182 Kristopher Triana Fadoua ? 4 3.65 2020 Gone to See the River Man

author: Kristopher Triana
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Selection (The Selection, #1)]]> 10507293
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.]]> 336 Kiera Cass 0062059939 Fadoua ? 0 4.07 2012 The Selection (The Selection, #1)

author: Kiera Cass
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> This Thing Between Us 56269269
“This intense cosmic horror with a touch of Mexican American folklore is incredibly creepy and moving.” —Margaret Kingsbury, BuzzFeed

It was Vera’s idea to buy the Itza. The “world’s most advanced smart speaker!” didn’t interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house—who ordered industrial lye? Then there was the eerie music at odd hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty room.

It was funny and strange right up until Vera was killed, and Thiago’s world became unbearable. Pundits and politicians all looking to turn his wife’s death into a symbol for their own agendas. A barrage of texts from her well-meaning friends about letting go and moving on. Waking to the sound of Itza talking softly to someone in the living room . . .

The only thing left to do was get far away from Chicago. Away from everything and everyone. A secluded cabin in Colorado seemed like the perfect place to hole up with his crushing grief. But soon Thiago realizes there is no escape—not from his guilt, not from his simmering rage, and not from the evil hunting him, feeding on his grief, determined to make its way into this world.

A bold, original horror novel about grief, loneliness and the oppressive intimacy of technology, This Thing Between Us marks the arrival of a spectacular new talent.]]> 272 Gus Moreno 0374539235 Fadoua ? 0
“What they say: call me.
What they mean: it’s your responsibility to let me know when I have to care.”

“In this world we struggle and bitch and fail and hurt and then weep over someone checking out of it all.
”

]]> 3.70 2021 This Thing Between Us

author: Gus Moreno
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2024/01/25
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“People cannot bear to think there are channels of human experience that are closed off to them, that they’ll never know. People want to believe their experience is universal, that nothing’s outside their scope. That their simulation of losing their spouse is just the same as my real loss.”

“What they say: call me.
What they mean: it’s your responsibility to let me know when I have to care.”

“In this world we struggle and bitch and fail and hurt and then weep over someone checking out of it all.
”

]]> Heart Bones 61964754
Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, Colleen Hoover's novel follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds.

After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows.

Devastated and anxious for the summer to go by quickly, Beyah has no time or patience for Samson, the wealthy, brooding guy next door. Yet, the connection between them is too intense to ignore. But with their upcoming futures sending them to opposite ends of the country, the two decide to maintain only a casual summer fling. Too bad neither has any idea that a rip current is about to drag both their hearts out to sea.]]> 368 Colleen Hoover 1668021919 Fadoua ? 3 4.23 2020 Heart Bones

author: Colleen Hoover
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/24
date added: 2024/01/24
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I have already read two novels by Colleen Hoover , and both of them were mystery/thriller/ paranormal romances . This is my first time reading an actual romance book by her and I think it was not bad . I enjoyed her writing at some level and she never fails to create engrossing plots .
]]> ???? ???? ?????? 42657211
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???? ??? ??????? ?? 1912? ???? ??? ????? ??? ???? ?????? ??????? ???????? ????????? ??? ??? ????? ??? ?? ??????? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ????????? ????? ???????? ???? ??? ??????? ???????. ???? ??? ??????? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ???? ?? ??????? ??? ??? ???????? ??? ??????? ?????? ??????? ??? ?? ???? ??????? ??????????? ?? ???????? ???????? ??????? ???????? ???????? ??? ??????? ?????? ?????? ?? ??????? ????? ???? ??????? ?? ???????.

????? ??? ??????? ?????? ????? ?????? ??? ???????? ????????. ???? ?????? ????? ??????? ????? ??????? ????? ????? ???? ????? ?????? ???????? ???? ??? ???? ????? ???? ?? ????? ?????? ??? ???? ??? ???? ??????? ??????? ???? ???? ???? ??? ???? ?? ???????? ????? ???????? ??????? ????? ??? ?? ???? ????? ???.]]> 233 Jean Webster Fadoua ? 3 ??? ??? ?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???????? ????? ??????? ?? ???? ?????? ??? ??? ???? ????? ???? . ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ??????. ??]]> 4.16 1912

author: Jean Webster
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1912
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/01/24
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???? ????? ??? ?????? ??? ??? ????? ? ????? ?? ??????? ???? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ?? ????? . ??????? ???? ?? ????? ???? ? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ?????? ????? ???????.
??? ??? ?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???????? ????? ??????? ?? ???? ?????? ??? ??? ???? ????? ???? . ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ??????. ??
]]> Legendary (Caraval, #2) 39277023 432 Stephanie Garber 1473629209 Fadoua ? 3 4.05 2018

author: Stephanie Garber
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/24
date added: 2024/01/24
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I expected more from the way the first book ended.
]]> Finale (Caraval #3) 44649197 Welcome, welcome to Finale, the third and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Caraval series!

Welcome, welcome to Caraval...all games must come to an end.

It’s been two months since the last Caraval concluded, two months since the Fates have been freed from an enchanted deck of cards, two months since Tella has seen Legend, and two months since Legend claimed the empire’s throne as his own. Now, Legend is preparing for his official coronation and Tella is determined to stop it. She believes her own mother, who still remains in an enchanted sleep, is the rightful heir to the throne.

Meanwhile, Scarlett has started a game of her own. She’s challenged Julian and her former fiancé, Count Nicolas d’Arcy, to a competition where the winner will receive her hand in marriage. Finaly, Scarlett feels as if she is in complete control over her life and future. She is unaware that her mother’s past has put her in the greatest danger of all.

Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begun―with lives, empires, and hearts all at stake. There are no spectators this time: only those who will win...and those who will lose everything.]]> 480 Stephanie Garber 1473666783 Fadoua ? 2 4.08 2019 Finale (Caraval #3)

author: Stephanie Garber
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2024/01/24
date added: 2024/01/24
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Not as good as the first book ,and Tella needs to shut up !!
]]> True Crime 48808041 156 Samantha Kolesnik 1941918565 Fadoua ? 4
“Like all good monsters, I came not by force, but by invitation.’’]]> 3.61 2020

author: Samantha Kolesnik
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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“To come in as a murderer and to murder is one thing. To come in as a friend, but to be a foe is another. Deceit is really the true crime of humanity.”

“Like all good monsters, I came not by force, but by invitation.’’
]]> 100% Match 75453617 96 Patrick C. Harrison III Fadoua ? 0 3.05 2022

author: Patrick C. Harrison III
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.05
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #5)]]> 6458542 298 Agatha Christie Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished
“Phillipa’s attitude to life is that she just isn’t interested,”. (Same Philippa same )

“No, I don’t. I don’t indeed, dear. I just think that there’s a great deal of money at stake, a great deal of money. And I’m afraid I know only too well the really terrible things that people will do to lay their hands on a lot of money.”
“I suppose they will,” said Bunch. “It doesn’t really do them any good, does it? Not in the end?”
“No—but they don’t usually know that.”
“I can understand it.” Bunch smiled suddenly, her sweet rather crooked smile. “One feels it would be different for oneself … Even I feel that.” She considered: “You pretend to yourself that you’d do a lot of good with all that money. Schemes … Homes for Unwanted Children … Tired Mothers … A lovely rest abroad somewhere for elderly women who have worked too hard….”
Her face grew sombre. Her eyes were suddenly dark and tragic.
“I know what you’re thinking,” she said to Miss Marple. “You’re thinking that I’d be the worst kind. Because I’d kid myself. If you just wanted the money for selfish reasons you’d at any rate see what you were like. But once you began to pretend about doing good with it, you’d be able to persuade yourself, perhaps, that it wouldn’t very much matter killing someone….”
Then her eyes cleared.

“But I shouldn’t,” she said. “I shouldn’t really kill anyone. Not even if they were old, or ill, or doing a lot of harm in the world. Not even if they were blackmailers or—or absolute beasts.” She fished a fly carefully out of the dregs of the coffee and arranged it on the table to dry. “Because people like living, don’t they? So do flies. Even if you’re old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It’s harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle’s greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I’m there—ticking over.”
She blew on the fly gently; it waved its legs, and flew rather drunkenly away.
“Cheer up, darling Aunt Jane,” said Bunch. “I’d never kill anybody.”

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“He (I say he because it’s easier, but there’s no reason why it should be a man more than a woman except, of course, that men are dirty dogs)”

“Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may possess.”

]]> 4.19 1950 A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #5)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1950
rating: 3
read at: 2023/11/02
date added: 2023/12/29
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review:
Actual rating : 3.25 stars

“Phillipa’s attitude to life is that she just isn’t interested,”. (Same Philippa same )

“No, I don’t. I don’t indeed, dear. I just think that there’s a great deal of money at stake, a great deal of money. And I’m afraid I know only too well the really terrible things that people will do to lay their hands on a lot of money.”
“I suppose they will,” said Bunch. “It doesn’t really do them any good, does it? Not in the end?”
“No—but they don’t usually know that.”
“I can understand it.” Bunch smiled suddenly, her sweet rather crooked smile. “One feels it would be different for oneself … Even I feel that.” She considered: “You pretend to yourself that you’d do a lot of good with all that money. Schemes … Homes for Unwanted Children … Tired Mothers … A lovely rest abroad somewhere for elderly women who have worked too hard….”
Her face grew sombre. Her eyes were suddenly dark and tragic.
“I know what you’re thinking,” she said to Miss Marple. “You’re thinking that I’d be the worst kind. Because I’d kid myself. If you just wanted the money for selfish reasons you’d at any rate see what you were like. But once you began to pretend about doing good with it, you’d be able to persuade yourself, perhaps, that it wouldn’t very much matter killing someone….”
Then her eyes cleared.

“But I shouldn’t,” she said. “I shouldn’t really kill anyone. Not even if they were old, or ill, or doing a lot of harm in the world. Not even if they were blackmailers or—or absolute beasts.” She fished a fly carefully out of the dregs of the coffee and arranged it on the table to dry. “Because people like living, don’t they? So do flies. Even if you’re old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It’s harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle’s greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I’m there—ticking over.”
She blew on the fly gently; it waved its legs, and flew rather drunkenly away.
“Cheer up, darling Aunt Jane,” said Bunch. “I’d never kill anybody.”

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“He (I say he because it’s easier, but there’s no reason why it should be a man more than a woman except, of course, that men are dirty dogs)”

“Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may possess.”

]]> The Little Match Girl 29097015 Hans Christian Andersen Fadoua ? 5
My challenge has come to an end.

Free Palestine ]]> 2.75 1845

author: Hans Christian Andersen
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 2.75
book published: 1845
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/28
date added: 2023/12/28
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I know this story from a cartoon channel back when I was a kid , but I have never read it in English . It used to make me very sad but now I think it is the perfect way to end this challenge . With the end of the year approaching and with everything that is happening in the world right now , this story hits hard . While some people are enjoying their ‘holiday season’ , others are dying of hunger and cold ! And Of course , of GENOCIDE …

My challenge has come to an end.

Free Palestine
]]> Dear Laura 52102795
So begins Laura’s sordid relationship with her new penpal, built on a foundation of quid pro quo. Her quest for closure will push her to bizarre acts of humiliation and harm, yet no matter how hard she tries, she cannot escape her correspondent’s demands. The letters keep coming, and as time passes, they have a profound effect on Laura.

From the author of Cruel Works of Nature comes a dark and twisted tale about obsession, guilt, and how far a person will go to put her ghosts to bed.]]> 111 Gemma Amor Fadoua ? 0
“All the tears she was supposed to cry were trapped in the cavity around her heart, and they would stay there for many years to come, solidifying to a hard, waxen case.?”

“She was mystery wrapped in silence, and sometimes, unwrapping the secret just wasn’t worth the struggle.”

]]> 3.57 2019 Dear Laura

author: Gemma Amor
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2023/12/28
date added: 2023/12/28
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“The ties that bind, she realised, did not always bind tight enough. He had slipped from her grasp. And in doing so, he had taught her a lesson, a harsh and immutable truth: that nothing is permanent. Everything can change. A life can alter beyond recognition in the time it takes to simply let go of someone’s hand.”

“All the tears she was supposed to cry were trapped in the cavity around her heart, and they would stay there for many years to come, solidifying to a hard, waxen case.?”

“She was mystery wrapped in silence, and sometimes, unwrapping the secret just wasn’t worth the struggle.”

]]> Caraval 140566887 Scarlett no ha salido nunca de la diminuta isla de?Trisda, donde sue?a con las maravillas de Caraval, una?celebración anual de una semana de duración en la que?el público participa del espectáculo. Caraval es magia. Misterio. Aventura. Y para Scarlett y?su querida hermana Tella, representa la libertad y una?forma de escapar de su despiadado padre. Cuando las hermanas reciben por fin las ansiadas?invitaciones para Caraval, parece que sus sue?os se?han hecho realidad. Pero Tella desaparece momentos?después de su llegada, secuestrada por el organizador?del espectáculo, Legend. Scarlett tiene entendido que todo lo que sucede en?Caraval es una compleja ilusión. Sin embargo, pronto?se ve sumida en un peligroso juego repleto de amor,?magia y desconsuelo. Real o no, deberá encontrar a Tella?antes de que termine el juego o perderá a su hermana?para siempre.]]> Stephanie Garber 139972049X Fadoua ? 4 3.81 2016 Caraval

author: Stephanie Garber
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/16
date added: 2023/12/16
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I really enjoyed this book so much !!
]]> In the Miso Soup 818118 180 Ryū Murakami Fadoua ? 4
“What’s good about Americans, if I can generalize a little, is that they have a kind of openhearted innocence. And what’s not so good is that they can’t imagine any world outside the States, or any value system different from their own…In a word, they’re childish”

“what makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up. ”

]]> 3.55 1997 In the Miso Soup

author: Ryū Murakami
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/10
date added: 2023/12/10
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Actual rating: 3.5 stars

“What’s good about Americans, if I can generalize a little, is that they have a kind of openhearted innocence. And what’s not so good is that they can’t imagine any world outside the States, or any value system different from their own…In a word, they’re childish”

“what makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up. ”

]]> I Who Have Never Known Men 45359486 Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE]]> 198 Jacqueline Harpman Fadoua ? 0 4.17 1995 I Who Have Never Known Men

author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1995
rating: 0
read at: 2023/12/07
date added: 2023/12/07
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]]> Sour Candy 27687495
What no one knows is that Phil is a prisoner, and that up until a few weeks ago and a chance encounter at a grocery store, he had never seen the child before in his life.]]> 84 Kealan Patrick Burke Fadoua ? 4 飞谤辞苍驳?”
]]> 3.61 2015 Sour Candy

author: Kealan Patrick Burke
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/06
date added: 2023/12/06
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“In a situation in which every rational person is telling you a fact and you’re the one who denies it, doesn’t that make you the one most likely
飞谤辞苍驳?”

]]> <![CDATA[Movie Star: They Always Say They're Single]]> 63212622 An untold true short story about the mid-2000s, a world-famous actor, and a fantasy Hollywood romance gone wrong by Jessica Simpson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Open Book.

After the end of her marriage to the first man she ever loved, Jessica Simpson wonders who she really is. Exploring what she truly wants in a relationship, Jessica begins dating again. This time her only vow is not to leap for the fairy tale. Don’t overthink. Just enjoy the moment. But when an A-list childhood crush invites her on a romantic getaway, it’s impossible for Jessica not to swoon.

In this introspective and funny confessional—one she never thought she’d share—Jessica confronts the limits of her experience and her sense of self as she’s nearly swept right off her feet.]]> 28 Jessica Simpson 1542032555 Fadoua ? 0 non-fiction 3.01 2023 Movie Star: They Always Say They're Single

Movie Star: They Always Say They're Single

author: Jessica Simpson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.01
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2023/12/05
date added: 2023/12/05
shelves: non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)]]> 53439886
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.

Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone . Revealing a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame’s enigmatic high king, Cardan, his tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan’s perspective.

This new installment in the Folk of the Air series is a return to the heart-racing romance, danger, humor, and drama that enchanted readers everywhere. Each chapter is paired with lavish and luminous full-color art, making this the perfect collector’s item to be enjoyed by both new audiences and old.]]> 200 Holly Black Fadoua ? 1 4.15 2020 How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

author: Holly Black
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2020
rating: 1
read at: 2023/09/03
date added: 2023/12/05
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]]> <![CDATA[Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)]]> 11464737
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a locked gun room . . . a million dollar bond robbery . . . the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb . . . a jewel robbery by the sea . . . the abduction of a prime minister . . . the disappearance of a banker . . . a phone call from a dying man . . .and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.

What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!]]> 179 Agatha Christie Fadoua ? 0 christie-finished
Here are some of my favorite quotes:

“Very simply. This street, it is not aristocratic, mon ami! In it there is no fashionable doctor, no fashionable dentist—still less is there a fashionable milliner! But there is a fashionable detective. Oui, my friend, it is true—I am become the mode, the dernier cri! One says to another: ‘Comment? You have lost your gold pencil case? You must go to the little Belgian. He is too marvellous! Everyone goes! Courez!’ And they arrive! In flocks, mon ami! With problems of the most foolish!”

“but I very much fear, Hastings, that we shall be obliged to leave them to Fate, or le bon Dieu, whichever you prefer.”
“The wicked flourish like a green bay tree,” I reminded him.
“But at a price, Hastings, always at a price, croyez-moi!?”

“The sight of so many jewels makes me wish I had turned my brains to crime, instead of to its detection. What a magnificent opportunity for some thief of distinction! ”

“Exactly. As Hastings says, bodies have a habit of coming to light with fatal persistency.”

“I do not see,” murmured Poirot. “I shut my eyes—and think.”

]]> 3.93 1924 Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1924
rating: 0
read at: 2023/11/18
date added: 2023/12/05
shelves: christie-finished
review:
I don’t know how to rate this one as it wasn’t my favorite collection by her , but at the same time it wasn’t bad at all … this is a lot of people’s favorite book but I feel that I’ve read better collections.

Here are some of my favorite quotes:

“Very simply. This street, it is not aristocratic, mon ami! In it there is no fashionable doctor, no fashionable dentist—still less is there a fashionable milliner! But there is a fashionable detective. Oui, my friend, it is true—I am become the mode, the dernier cri! One says to another: ‘Comment? You have lost your gold pencil case? You must go to the little Belgian. He is too marvellous! Everyone goes! Courez!’ And they arrive! In flocks, mon ami! With problems of the most foolish!”

“but I very much fear, Hastings, that we shall be obliged to leave them to Fate, or le bon Dieu, whichever you prefer.”
“The wicked flourish like a green bay tree,” I reminded him.
“But at a price, Hastings, always at a price, croyez-moi!?”

“The sight of so many jewels makes me wish I had turned my brains to crime, instead of to its detection. What a magnificent opportunity for some thief of distinction! ”

“Exactly. As Hastings says, bodies have a habit of coming to light with fatal persistency.”

“I do not see,” murmured Poirot. “I shut my eyes—and think.”

]]> Waking Up Next to You 75300534
Camille and Preston are as close as two friends can be. They finish each other’s sentences, communicate without words, and know each other’s darkest secrets.

Preston helps Camille struggle with her traumatic past, coming to terms with her painful childhood and in turn, Camille is there for Preston as he struggles to make sense of his brother’s untimely death.

Nothing can come between them, that is until they wake up next to each other after a night of drinking too much and partying too hard.

Even though they swear nothing will change, they both know that’s a lie. Everything has changed and the spark that kept them together is quickly fading, buried by hurt feelings and unspoken desires.

Can Preston get Camille to overcome her fears of commitment and ending up just like her mother before he has to walk away for good?

Waking up Next to You is a very low steam, slow burn, friends to lovers novella about overcoming the past and conquering your fears.]]> 100 Colleen Brookes Fadoua ? 2 3.00

author: Colleen Brookes
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.00
book published:
rating: 2
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date added: 2023/12/05
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]]> One Wicked Winter Night 75666737 ?
Dressed as a veiled princess, Lady Diana Lawrence is shocked to discover that the mysterious corsair who tempts her away from the costume ball is the duke she once loved and lost. Now snowed in with Castleton at a remote lodge, will she surrender to the passion still burning hotly between them?
?
[Originally published in Seduction on a Snowy Night .]]]> 112 Mary Jo Putney 1420156330 Fadoua ? 3
]]> 4.13 2023 One Wicked Winter Night

author: Mary Jo Putney
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2023/11/28
date added: 2023/12/05
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“Society needs better manners for both men and women.”

]]> <![CDATA[A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)]]> 9641812
Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme. . . .]]> 239 Agatha Christie 0062073656 Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished
]]> 3.89 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1953
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/03
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: christie-finished
review:
“old sins have long shadows”

]]> The Lottery 6219656
“The Lottery” stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history. Originally published in The New Yorker, the author immediately began receiving letters from readers who demanded an explanation of the story’s meaning. “The Lottery” has been adapted for stage, television, radio and film.
]]> 30 Shirley Jackson 1563127873 Fadoua ? 4 classics 4.08 1948

author: Shirley Jackson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1948
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/08
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: classics
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]]> <![CDATA[We Have Always Lived in the Castle]]> 89724 Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.]]> 152 Shirley Jackson 0143039970 Fadoua ? 4 classics 3.93 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle

author: Shirley Jackson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1962
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/23
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: classics
review:
I giggled many times reading this book and even though the premise is creepy and you could pretty much sense that these characters are not Ok , I felt for them and related to them to an extent… I enjoyed this very very much … This is totally my cup of tea
]]> The Haunting of Hill House 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 Fadoua ? 3 classics

“Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words. ”

“Sing before breakfast you’ll cry before night”]]> 3.85 1959 The Haunting of Hill House

author: Shirley Jackson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1959
rating: 3
read at: 2023/04/02
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: classics
review:
As a huge fan of the TV show I thought there would be some similarities between the series and the book . Turns out there was barely any resemblance except for the description of the house and what it does . I think the first half of this book was better , but I still enjoyed it. It definitely won't be my last read from the author .

“Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words. ”

“Sing before breakfast you’ll cry before night”
]]> The Sundial 19603773 The Sundial. When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.
]]> 240 Shirley Jackson 0698148207 Fadoua ? 4 classics 3.87 1958 The Sundial

author: Shirley Jackson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1958
rating: 4
read at: 2023/04/13
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: classics
review:
What a ride … and that ending ? I want more … I need to know what is going to happen the next day !!!!!!
]]> Un soup?on légitime 7135034 Un soup?on légitime est l'histoire d'un homme dont les passions vont causer le malheur de son entourage. John Limpley s'installe à la campagne avec son épouse et adopte un chien, Ponto. Adulé par son ma?tre, l'animal se transforme en tyran... jusqu'au jour où il est délaissé, lorsque la jeune femme tombe enceinte.
Le drame qui va suivre est d'autant plus tragique qu'il reste inexpliqué.
Dans cette nouvelle angoissante, inédite en fran?ais, on retrouve le style inimitable de Zweig et sa finesse dans l'analyse psychologique. Comme dans Lettre d'une inconnue ou Le joueur d'échecs, il dépeint avec virtuosité les conséquences funestes de l'obsession et de la démesure des sentiments.]]> 140 Stefan Zweig 2246756111 Fadoua ? 0 classics 3.87 1935 Un soup?on légitime

author: Stefan Zweig
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1935
rating: 0
read at: 2023/05/03
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: classics
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]]> <![CDATA[The Road Through the Wall (Penguin Classics)]]> 16171189
Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded career.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700?titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the?series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date?translations by award-winning translators.]]> 208 Shirley Jackson 0143107054 Fadoua ? 4 classics
What I love about Shirley Jackson is how real her storytelling is . There is depth to her characters and you can never tell where the story is heading . You just have to go along with it and see where it takes you … I love her !!! ]]> 3.63 1948 The Road Through the Wall (Penguin Classics)

The Road Through the Wall (Penguin Classics)

author: Shirley Jackson
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1948
rating: 4
read at: 2023/05/12
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: classics
review:
Shocking!

What I love about Shirley Jackson is how real her storytelling is . There is depth to her characters and you can never tell where the story is heading . You just have to go along with it and see where it takes you … I love her !!!
]]> <![CDATA[Les Précieuses Ridicules (Pocket classiques t. 17248) (French Edition)]]> 48616005 En novembre 1659, l'énorme succès des
Précieuses ridicules surprend 惭辞濒颈è谤别. Le public plébiscite son génie comique. Il découvre alors que son thé?tre dispose d'une matière inépuisable : la satire des m?urs de l'époque, ses excès, ses vices, ses ridicules qui sont d'ailleurs intemporels. Mais il ne sait pas encore que les manières prétentieuses de Cathos et Magdelon, ces deux êtres dévorés de snobisme et de mondanité, ne quitteront jamais le répertoire. La farce joue aujourd'hui encore de ses stratagèmes et de ses déguisements, et s'incarne dans des gens que l'on croise tous les jours.

]]> 122 惭辞濒颈è谤别 2823868518 Fadoua ? 3 classics 3.57 1659 Les Précieuses Ridicules (Pocket classiques t. 17248) (French Edition)

author: 惭辞濒颈è谤别
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1659
rating: 3
read at: 2023/10/20
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: classics
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]]> <![CDATA[Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)]]> 22299763
Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.

Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.

A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.]]> 561 Leigh Bardugo Fadoua ? 0 4.58 2016 Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2023/11/25
date added: 2023/11/25
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]]> Coraline 1967070
But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and all the tools she can find if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

This beloved tale has now become a visual feast. Acclaimed artist P. Craig Russell brings Neil Gaiman's enchanting nationally bestselling children's book Coraline to new life in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation]]> 192 P. Craig Russell 006082543X Fadoua ? 3 4.07 2008

author: P. Craig Russell
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2022/06/27
date added: 2023/11/17
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Holes The Reith Lectures]]> 29537175
In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that fascinated him for decades – black holes.

In these flagship lectures the legendary physicist argued that if we could only understand black holes and how they challenge the very nature of space and time, we could unlock the secrets of the universe.]]> 71 Stephen Hawking 085750357X Fadoua ? 0 non-fiction ]]> 4.31 2016 Black Holes The Reith Lectures

author: Stephen Hawking
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2023/11/05
date added: 2023/11/06
shelves: non-fiction
review:
I have always been interested in space and the possibility of the existence of other species and another universe … but I have to admit that black holes scare the shit out of me , which is pretty exciting !

]]> <![CDATA[Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #43)]]> 16330
This "Mystery Masters" audiobook includes all the tales, unabridged, from the print book first published in 1974. These gems are alternately read by David Suchet and Hugh Fraser, whose roles as, respectively, Poirot and his sidekick, Captain Hugh Hastings, in PBS's "Mystery!" series and the Arts and Entertainment's "Poirot" series are considered definitive.

This collection contains the following stories: 1) The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly, 2) The Adventure of the Clapham Cook, 3) The Affair of the Victory Ball, 4) The Chocolate Box, 5) The Cornish Mystery, 6) The Double Clue, 7) Double Sin, 8) How Does Your Garden Grow?, 9) The King of Clubs, 10) The Lemesurier Inheritance, 11) Lost Mine, 12) Market Basing Mystery, 13) The Plymouth Express, 14) Problem at Sea, 15) The Submarine Plans, 16) The Third-Floor Flat, 17) The Veiled Lady, and 18) Wasps' Nest.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the collection of short stories, "Poirot's Early Cases." Entries for the individual titles can be found elsewhere on 欧宝娱乐. All Agatha Christie's Poirot short stories can be found by searching 欧宝娱乐 for: "a Hercule Poirot Short Story."]]> 8 Agatha Christie 1572704721 Fadoua ? 4 christie-finished, classics
“Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.”
]]> 3.97 1974 Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #43)

Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #43)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1974
rating: 4
read at: 2021/11/11
date added: 2023/11/06
shelves: christie-finished, classics
review:
I loved it so much

“Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.”

]]> <![CDATA[The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37)]]> 690146
First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest… next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits… and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide.

What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!]]> 304 Agatha Christie 0007121083 Fadoua ? 4 christie-finished
2- The mystery of the Spanish Chest ??????

“ Perhaps you will speak the truth, perhaps you will lie. It is very necessary for a woman to lie sometimes. Women must defend themselves, and the lie, it can be a good weapon. But there are three people, Madame, to whom a woman should speak the truth. To her Father confessor, to her hairdresser, and to her private detective – if she trusts him. Do you trust me, Madame?”

3- The Under Dog ????????

I really love it when Poirot does experiments with George . They are funny together .

“I perceive, Mademoiselle,’ said Poirot, smiling, ‘that you do not believe in intuition?’
‘I think it is nonsense,’ replied Lily.
Poirot leaned back in his chair.
‘Les femmes,’ he murmured, ‘they like to think that it is a special weapon that the good God has given them, and for every once that it shows them the truth, at least nine times it leads them astray.”

“Lily is a dear girl,’ said Lady Astwell, ‘but she thinks she knows everything, and as often as not in my experience those sort of people are wrong. ”

“If one has an opportunity to observe human nature, time is never wasted,’ said Poirot quietly.”

“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.”

4- Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds ??????

5- The Dream ????????

“I wonder if you’ll ever commit a crime, Poirot?’ said Stillingfleet. ‘I bet you could get away with it all right. As a matter of fact, it would be too easy for you – I mean the thing would be off as definitely too unsporting.’
‘That,’ said Poirot, ‘is a typical English idea.”

6- Greenshaw’s Folly ??????

]]> 3.79 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37)

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1960
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/20
date added: 2023/10/20
shelves: christie-finished
review:
1- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ??????

2- The mystery of the Spanish Chest ??????

“ Perhaps you will speak the truth, perhaps you will lie. It is very necessary for a woman to lie sometimes. Women must defend themselves, and the lie, it can be a good weapon. But there are three people, Madame, to whom a woman should speak the truth. To her Father confessor, to her hairdresser, and to her private detective – if she trusts him. Do you trust me, Madame?”

3- The Under Dog ????????

I really love it when Poirot does experiments with George . They are funny together .

“I perceive, Mademoiselle,’ said Poirot, smiling, ‘that you do not believe in intuition?’
‘I think it is nonsense,’ replied Lily.
Poirot leaned back in his chair.
‘Les femmes,’ he murmured, ‘they like to think that it is a special weapon that the good God has given them, and for every once that it shows them the truth, at least nine times it leads them astray.”

“Lily is a dear girl,’ said Lady Astwell, ‘but she thinks she knows everything, and as often as not in my experience those sort of people are wrong. ”

“If one has an opportunity to observe human nature, time is never wasted,’ said Poirot quietly.”

“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.”

4- Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds ??????

5- The Dream ????????

“I wonder if you’ll ever commit a crime, Poirot?’ said Stillingfleet. ‘I bet you could get away with it all right. As a matter of fact, it would be too easy for you – I mean the thing would be off as definitely too unsporting.’
‘That,’ said Poirot, ‘is a typical English idea.”

6- Greenshaw’s Folly ??????

]]> <![CDATA[Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)]]> 10122772 Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.]]> 272 Agatha Christie 0062073834 Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished
“That events come to people—not people to events. Why do some people have exciting lives and other people dull ones? Because of their surroundings? Not at all. One man may travel to the ends of the earth and nothing will happen to him. There will be a massacre a week before he arrives, and an earthquake the day after he leaves, and the boat that he nearly took will be shipwrecked. And another man may live at Balham and travel to the City every day, and things will happen to him. He will be mixed up with blackmailing gangs and beautiful girls and motor bandits. There are people with a tendency to shipwrecks—even if they go on a boat on an ornamental lake something will happen to it. In the same way men like your Hercule Poirot don’t have to look for crime—it comes to them.”

“He was on the whole more interested in women than men. For a manly man, Mr. Satterthwaite knew far too much about women. There was a womanish strain in his character which lent him insight into the feminine mind. Women all his life had confided in him, but they had never taken him seriously. Sometimes he felt a little bitter about this. He was, he felt, always in the stalls watching the play, never on the stage taking part in the drama. But in truth the r?le of onlooker suited him very well.”

“See you, as a boy I was poor. There were many of us. We had to get on in the world. I entered the Police Force. I worked hard. Slowly I rose in that Force. I began to make a name for myself. I made a name for myself. I began to acquire an international reputation. At last, I was due to retire. There came the War. I was injured. I came, a sad and weary refugee, to England. A kind lady gave me hospitality. She died—not naturally; no, she was killed. Eh bien, I set my wits to work. I employed my little grey cells. I discovered her murderer. I found that I was not yet finished. No, indeed, my powers were stronger than ever. Then began my second career, that of a private inquiry agent in England. I have solved many fascinating and baffling problems. Ah, monsieur, I have lived! The psychology of human nature, it is wonderful. I grew rich. Someday, I said to myself, I will have all the money I need. I will realize all my dreams.”

“My friend, beware of the day when your dreams come true. ”

“we women are such cats, aren’t we? Scratch, scratch, miauw, miauw, purr, purr….”

“You needn’t be afraid, Sir Charles. Women aren’t usually cruel to men—unless it’s some particular man—they’re only cruel to other women.”]]> 3.72 1934 Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1934
rating: 3
read at: 2023/10/14
date added: 2023/10/16
shelves: christie-finished
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“The great merit of being a doctor,” said Sir Bartholomew, “is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.”

“That events come to people—not people to events. Why do some people have exciting lives and other people dull ones? Because of their surroundings? Not at all. One man may travel to the ends of the earth and nothing will happen to him. There will be a massacre a week before he arrives, and an earthquake the day after he leaves, and the boat that he nearly took will be shipwrecked. And another man may live at Balham and travel to the City every day, and things will happen to him. He will be mixed up with blackmailing gangs and beautiful girls and motor bandits. There are people with a tendency to shipwrecks—even if they go on a boat on an ornamental lake something will happen to it. In the same way men like your Hercule Poirot don’t have to look for crime—it comes to them.”

“He was on the whole more interested in women than men. For a manly man, Mr. Satterthwaite knew far too much about women. There was a womanish strain in his character which lent him insight into the feminine mind. Women all his life had confided in him, but they had never taken him seriously. Sometimes he felt a little bitter about this. He was, he felt, always in the stalls watching the play, never on the stage taking part in the drama. But in truth the r?le of onlooker suited him very well.”

“See you, as a boy I was poor. There were many of us. We had to get on in the world. I entered the Police Force. I worked hard. Slowly I rose in that Force. I began to make a name for myself. I made a name for myself. I began to acquire an international reputation. At last, I was due to retire. There came the War. I was injured. I came, a sad and weary refugee, to England. A kind lady gave me hospitality. She died—not naturally; no, she was killed. Eh bien, I set my wits to work. I employed my little grey cells. I discovered her murderer. I found that I was not yet finished. No, indeed, my powers were stronger than ever. Then began my second career, that of a private inquiry agent in England. I have solved many fascinating and baffling problems. Ah, monsieur, I have lived! The psychology of human nature, it is wonderful. I grew rich. Someday, I said to myself, I will have all the money I need. I will realize all my dreams.”

“My friend, beware of the day when your dreams come true. ”

“we women are such cats, aren’t we? Scratch, scratch, miauw, miauw, purr, purr….”

“You needn’t be afraid, Sir Charles. Women aren’t usually cruel to men—unless it’s some particular man—they’re only cruel to other women.”
]]> <![CDATA[The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)]]> 8130423 In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.]]> 361 Rick Riordan Fadoua ? 5 THIS IS MY FAVOURITE BOOK SO FAR !
I JUST CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW GREAT THIS WAS .
THE WISDOM IN THIS BOOK IS JUST FASCINATING !!!!]]> 4.44 2008 The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

author: Rick Riordan
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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OH MY GOD !!!!!!!
THIS IS MY FAVOURITE BOOK SO FAR !
I JUST CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW GREAT THIS WAS .
THE WISDOM IN THIS BOOK IS JUST FASCINATING !!!!
]]> <![CDATA[The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)]]> 6392944
There's no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon; his embittered son, who would have killed for independence; and his mistress, who refused to be ignored - and each felt deserving of the dead man's fortune. The police think they've found the culprit. But Poirot has his doubts. Why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse...]]> 240 Agatha Christie Fadoua ? 4 christie-finished
“And ill fortune, or that obscure justice which shapes men’s ends and will not allow them to evade the consequences of their acts, takes him to Merlinville.”

]]> 3.87 1923 The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1923
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/07
date added: 2023/10/15
shelves: christie-finished
review:
Actual rating : 3.5 ??

“And ill fortune, or that obscure justice which shapes men’s ends and will not allow them to evade the consequences of their acts, takes him to Merlinville.”

]]> <![CDATA[Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)]]> 16363
With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met.]]> 303 Agatha Christie 0007119356 Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished
“I am a doctor and I know that ambition—the desire to succeed—to have power—leads to most ills of the human soul. ”

]]> 3.87 1938 Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1938
rating: 3
read at: 2023/10/01
date added: 2023/10/15
shelves: christie-finished
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“There are such strange things buried down in the unconscious. A lust for power—a lust for cruelty—a savage desire to tear and rend—all the inheritance of our past racial memories…They are all there, Miss King, all the cruelty and savagery and lust…We shut the door on them and deny them conscious life, but sometimes—they are too strong.”

“I am a doctor and I know that ambition—the desire to succeed—to have power—leads to most ills of the human soul. ”

]]> <![CDATA[Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)]]> 16344
So, on April 17th she wrote about her anxieties and suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. And included a request that he consult with her as soon as possible. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th … by which time Emily was already dead.]]> 317 Agatha Christie 0007120796 Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished
“If you show the dog the rabbit, my friend, does he return to London? No, he goes into the rabbit hole.”

“Who are you actin’ for, by the way?”
Poirot said, gravely:
“I am acting for the dead, mademoiselle.”

“Ah,” he said. “Tomorrow! Sometimes, M. Poirot, tomorrow is a long way off.”
“On the contrary,” said Poirot, “I always find that it succeeds today with monotonous regularity.”
]]> 3.88 1937 Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1937
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/29
date added: 2023/10/15
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“That is because you have the mistaken idea implanted in your head that a detective is necessarily a man who puts on a false beard and hides behind a pillar! The false beard, it is vieux jeu, and shadowing is only done by the lowest branch of my profession. The Hercule Poirots, my friend, need only to sit back in a chair and think.”

“If you show the dog the rabbit, my friend, does he return to London? No, he goes into the rabbit hole.”

“Who are you actin’ for, by the way?”
Poirot said, gravely:
“I am acting for the dead, mademoiselle.”

“Ah,” he said. “Tomorrow! Sometimes, M. Poirot, tomorrow is a long way off.”
“On the contrary,” said Poirot, “I always find that it succeeds today with monotonous regularity.”

]]> <![CDATA[Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #40)]]> 16332 365 Agatha Christie 0007121105 Fadoua ? 3 christie-finished

“But you know, my dear,” said Poirot gently, “people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.”

“To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.”

]]> 3.68 1966 Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #40)

author: Agatha Christie
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1966
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/29
date added: 2023/10/15
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“Do a thing well then leave it alone”

“But you know, my dear,” said Poirot gently, “people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.”

“To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.”

]]> Another 4th period 22610491 180 Yukito Ayatsuji 3770479130 Fadoua ? 2 4.31 2011

author: Yukito Ayatsuji
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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]]> Another [アナザー] 4th period 13369633 108 Yukito Ayatsuji 404120044X Fadoua ? 2 manga 4.34 2011

author: Yukito Ayatsuji
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)]]> 60556912
Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of…

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!]]> 329 Freida McFadden 1803144378 Fadoua ? 4 4.31 2022 The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

author: Freida McFadden
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/29
date added: 2023/08/29
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]]> Twisted Games (Twisted, #2) 62056013
Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. Ever.

He has never once been tempted to break those rules...until her.

Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak that matches his own and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She's nothing he expected and everything he never knew he needed.

Day by day, inch by inch, she breaks down his defenses until he's faced with a truth he can no longer deny: he swore an oath to protect her, but all he wants is to ruin her. Take her.

Because she's his.

His princess.

His forbidden fruit.

His every depraved fantasy.

***

Regal, strong-willed, and bound by the chains of duty, Princess Bridget dreams of the freedom to live and love as she chooses.

But when her brother abdicates, she's suddenly faced with the prospect of a loveless, politically expedient marriage and a throne she never wanted.

And as she navigates the intricacies-and treacheries-of her new role, she must also hide her desire for a man she can't have.

Her bodyguard.

Her protector.

Her ultimate ruin.

Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a kingdom...and doom them both.

Do not become emotionally involved. Ever.]]> 448 Ana Huang 1728274877 Fadoua ? 2
“Men. They always ruined it by opening their mouths.”

]]> 4.09 2021 Twisted Games (Twisted, #2)

author: Ana Huang
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2023/08/08
date added: 2023/08/26
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“But people were people, no matter their title, and some desires were universal. Unfortunately, the ability to fulfill them was not.”

“Men. They always ruined it by opening their mouths.”

]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)]]> 26032912 He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.

And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity…

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy.]]> 321 Holly Black 0316310409 Fadoua ? 0 ]]> 4.33 2019 The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)

The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)

author: Holly Black
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2023/08/25
date added: 2023/08/25
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“There was a brittleness in her tone, and Baphen was uncomfortably reminded that some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.”

]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)]]> 40772063 Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes...

While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke.

Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.

The Lost Sisters is a companion e-novella to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince by master writer Holly Black.]]> 50 Holly Black Fadoua ? 3 3.33 2018 The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)

The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)

author: Holly Black
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/16
date added: 2023/08/19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 Fadoua ? 3 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

author: Holly Black
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/14
date added: 2023/08/19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)]]> 26032887 The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.]]> 336 Holly Black 0316310336 Fadoua ? 4 4.27 2019 The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

author: Holly Black
name: Fadoua ?
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/19
date added: 2023/08/19
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