Myriam's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:51:59 -0700 60 Myriam's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Tress of the Emerald Sea 200205607 C’est le début d’un périple au bout du monde, où l’on retrouve tous les ingrédients qui font le sel des grandes aventures : des contrebandiers de la pire espèce, une sorcière malintentionnée, un redoutable dragon, des pirates sales et méchants (ou pas), et même un rat qui parle...
Tress de la mer Émeraude est le premier des quatre « romans secrets » écrits par Brandon Sanderson, l’auteur best-seller aux plus de trente-six millions d’exemplaires vendus à travers le monde, durant les confinements de la pandémie de Covid-19. Ces romans ont fait l’objet d’une campagne de financement participatif record sur la plateforme Kickstarter aux États-Unis.

Un roman à dévorer. Numerama.

Un roman du Cosmère.]]> 369 Brandon Sanderson 1399613391 Myriam 0 mine-own, currently-reading 4.25 2023 Tress of the Emerald Sea
author: Brandon Sanderson
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]]> The Virgin Suicides 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 Myriam 4 ebooks The Lisbon sisters were stuck in a tragic reality, shifting between promiscuous pixies and pious angels, their wings started to burn the day their youngest, Cecilia, commited suicide.
What followed just emphasized the fact that the sisters were an entity and that the death of one sister left them incomplete and at the same time guided them to a more peaceful place.
I enjoyed the voyeurism of this book. I relished in spying on the girls, their moving shadows, I was hoping to find a clue about why they committed suicide, an answer as why life is harder on some people, why some of us burn faster...but I was left with no answers, except that there comes a time when, like the Lisbon girls, we have to be our own gods and decide when things must end...]]> 3.81 1993 The Virgin Suicides
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2016/05/08
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If anyone cares to know why do teenage girls commit suicide, this book will not give you an answer and it will thicken the mystery. On the other hand this book describes how crushing life can be, how the Lisbon girls and by extent most teenage girls, are too fragile for this world, many of them figured out the triviality of living and how little there is to fight for on earth and chose to embrace the unknown.
The Lisbon sisters were stuck in a tragic reality, shifting between promiscuous pixies and pious angels, their wings started to burn the day their youngest, Cecilia, commited suicide.
What followed just emphasized the fact that the sisters were an entity and that the death of one sister left them incomplete and at the same time guided them to a more peaceful place.
I enjoyed the voyeurism of this book. I relished in spying on the girls, their moving shadows, I was hoping to find a clue about why they committed suicide, an answer as why life is harder on some people, why some of us burn faster...but I was left with no answers, except that there comes a time when, like the Lisbon girls, we have to be our own gods and decide when things must end...
]]> Happy Place 61718053
They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends� hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week� in front of those who know you best?

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.]]> 400 Emily Henry 0593441273 Myriam 0 to-read 3.95 2023 Happy Place
author: Emily Henry
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> People We Meet on Vacation 54985743 Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?]]> 400 Emily Henry 1984806750 Myriam 0 to-read 3.85 2021 People We Meet on Vacation
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> Beach Read 52867387 A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.]]> 371 Emily Henry 1984806734 Myriam 0 to-read 3.99 2020 Beach Read
author: Emily Henry
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.99
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]]> &Dz;ÉٰԲ 15688
'éٰԲ est le premier roman d'Albert Camus, Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957.]]> 184 Albert Camus 2070360024 Myriam 4 ebooks 3.93 1942 L'Étranger
author: Albert Camus
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1942
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/29
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I respect ''The sun made me do it'' vibe going on in here.
]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Myriam 5
04/2025
11 years later, the cultural hold this book had on the readers... it would have been a massive hit on booktok if it existed at the time!]]> 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
author: John Green
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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All I can say about The Fault In Our Stars : “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.�

04/2025
11 years later, the cultural hold this book had on the readers... it would have been a massive hit on booktok if it existed at the time!
]]> <![CDATA[Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief & Bereavement Across Cultures]]> 123159649 112 Naomi Westerman Myriam 0 to-read 3.98 Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief & Bereavement Across Cultures
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name: Myriam
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]]> <![CDATA[BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16)]]> 61813649 112 Anahit Behrooz 1912489724 Myriam 0 to-read 4.06 BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16)
author: Anahit Behrooz
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]]> <![CDATA[Hair/Power: Essays on Control and Freedom (Inklings, #15)]]> 61813614 112 Kajal Odedra 1912489708 Myriam 0 to-read 4.18 Hair/Power: Essays on Control and Freedom (Inklings, #15)
author: Kajal Odedra
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[The Loki Variations: The Man, The Myth, The Mischief (Inklings, #14)]]> 61813596
By exploring contemporary variations of Loki from Norse god to anti-hero trickster in four distinct categories � the God of Knots, Mischief, Outcasts and Stories � we can better understand the power of myth, queer theory, fandom, ritual, pop culture itself
and more.

Johnson invites readers to journey with him as he unpicks his own evolving relationship with Loki, and to ask: Who is your Loki?
And what is their glorious purpose?]]> 96 Karl Johnson 1912489686 Myriam 0 to-read 4.01 The Loki Variations: The Man, The Myth, The Mischief (Inklings, #14)
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]]> <![CDATA[Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop (Inklings, #6)]]> 59286408
Flip the Script explores many of the phenomenal women who have paved the way in UK hip hop both at the forefront and behind the scenes, through interviews, research and Qureshi's lifelong love of the form. From the influence of the genre's beginnings in the Bronx to formation of distinctive regional scenes across the country, the barriers women faced to the magazines and club nights that fostered thriving hip hop communities, readers get to know the women who led the charge in one of the country's most innovative and exciting music scenes, and those picking up the torch today.

This is a love letter to UK hip hop, and to the women changing the game.]]> 0 Arusa Qureshi 1912489309 Myriam 0 to-read 4.27 Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop (Inklings, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli (Inklings, #13)]]> 63276347 112 Karl Thomas Smith 1912489589 Myriam 0 to-read 3.48 2022 Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli (Inklings, #13)
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average rating: 3.48
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]]> <![CDATA[Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng]]> 218185743
These days nobody can reach Cora: not her aunt, who wants her to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival; not her weird colleagues; and especially not the slack-jawed shadow lurking around her door frame. After all, it can't be real—can it? After a series of unexplained killings in Chinatown, Cora believes someone might be targeting East Asian women, and something might be targeting Cora herself.]]> 304 Kylie Lee Baker 0778368459 Myriam 0 to-read 4.27 2025 Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
author: Kylie Lee Baker
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.27
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]]> Walking on the Ceiling 37655491
"I fell in love with this book." -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation

A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and her complicated relationship with a famous British writer.

After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city.

M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family meals, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so, she also begins to confront her mother's silence and anger, her father's death, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens, so does Nunu's fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she's told to protect herself from her memories.

A wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman's coming into her own, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory, the pleasure of invention, and those places, real and imagined, we can't escape.]]> 210 Aysegül Savas 0525537414 Myriam 0 to-read 3.53 Walking on the Ceiling
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]]> صلاة القلق 215638578
حدثٌ واحدٌ في «النجع» ترويه ثماني شخصيّات مختلفة، تُشكّل مرويّاتها فسيفساء الحكاية تشكيلاً ساحرًا. أمّا قاع الرواية فمساءلة سرديّة للنّكسة وما تلاها من أوهام بالسيادة والنصر. فمَن يكتب التاريخ الحقيقيّ: الجزمة والبندقية وسلاسل الحديد أم صرخات التمرّد التي لا تموت؟ وما الّذي يوقظه فينا العام 1977؟ موت المعنى والفنّ أم عبث المصير والسلام الزائف؟

أليست قرية «المناسي» استعارةً كُبرى لجيلٍ من الممسوخين؟

مهما كانت الإجابة فحسبُ «صلاة القلق» أن تجمع في خيطٍ واحدٍ: تناثرَ الدلالة ومتانة الحَبْك.]]> 354 9938979572 Myriam 0 to-read 4.32 2024 صلاة القلق
author: Mohamed Samir Nada (محمد سمير ندا)
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.32
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]]> دفاتر الجيلاني ولد حمد 216888770 عثرت الشرطة على الدفاتر الّتي خلّفها الجيلاني ولد حمد مع مجموعة من الرسائل من مخلاة بجانب سور السجن، ورجّحت أنها سقطت منه عند هروبه. أستطيع أن أتخيّل مدى حسرة الرجل حينما وطئت قدماهُ الأرض واكتشف أنّ ما أمضى سنواتٍ في كتابتِه قد ضاع منه في رمشة عين. ولا أستبعد أنّه قد فكّر جدّيا في تسليم نفسه لولا يقينه بأنّ حبسَه سيُمدّدُ شهورا طويلة دون أدنى ضمانة باستعادةِ ما ضيّعه.
استعانت الشرطة بمترجم من أصل عربي للاطّلاع على محتوى المخلاة من دفاتر ورسائل. وبعد انتهاء التحقيق ضُمّت كلّ تلك الوثائق إلى الملفّ العدليِّ للسجين الهاربِ، وأُرسلت إلى أرشيف إحدى إدارات مصلحة السجون. كانت بلا شكّ ستتلف بفعل الزمن والرطوبة، دون أن يعلم أحدٌ عنها شيئا، لو لم يتدخّل القدرُ وينقذها من ذلك المصير البائسِ.]]> 399 صحبي كرعاني 9938965709 Myriam 0 to-read 4.04 2023 دفاتر الجيلاني ولد حمد
author: صحبي كرعاني
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.04
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]]> Hunchback 214986269 A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a provocative, defiant debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life.

Born with a congenital muscle disorder,Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka's physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has no boundaries: She takes e-learning courses on her iPad, publishes explicit fantasies on websites, and anonymously troll-tweets to see if anyone is paying attention (“If I were to live again, I’d want to be a high-class prostitute�). One day, she tweets into the void an offer of an enormous sum of money for a sperm donor. To her surprise, her new nurse accepts the dare, unleashing a series of events that will forever change Shaka's sense of herself as a woman in the world.

Hunchback has shaken Japanese literary culture with its skillful depiction of the physical body andunrepentant humor. Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, it's a feminist story about the dignity of an individual who insists on her right to make choices for herself, no matter the consequences. Formally creative and refreshingly unsentimental, Hunchback depicts the joy, anger, and desires of a woman demanding autonomy in a world that doesn't aways grant it to people like her. Full of wit, bite, and heart, this unforgettable novel reminds us all of the full potentialof our lives, no matter the limitations we experience.]]> 112 Saou Ichikawa 0593734718 Myriam 3 ebooks 3.51 2023 Hunchback
author: Saou Ichikawa
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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A severely disabled woman, writes erotica and fantasizes about getting an abortion. It could be read as an ode to feminism and disability being recognized as a part of it Yet, this made me feel like a voyeur...It's an unsettling short story. It made me see things, and it made me feel like I'm not supposed to be seeing these things. This is quite disturbing in its realness and the unfiltered views of its main character.
]]> Enchantra (Wicked Games, #2) 218123129 A new game of danger and desire is beginning. Ready or not�

When a mysterious invitation draws Genevieve Grimm to a palace in Italy, she expects magic and secrets, maybe even a ball.

She doesn’t expect the owner’s handsome son to slam the door in her face.

Rowin Silver is tall and dark and exceptionally rude. Invitation or no, he tells her to leave and never come back.

But Genevieve has never followed orders, especially from arrogant rich boys. She slips inside� and immediately realises her mistake.

Rowin and his family are caught in a deadly game. There can be only one winner. The others are dragged away to Hell� until the contest begins again.

Now Genevieve must join the hunt. And her only hope of survival is an alliance with Rowin. Even worse, to work together they must convince the others they’re in love.

As they race through a labyrinth of gold and marble, their instant loathing turns to irresistible attraction. Can Genevieve evade Rowin’s ruthless family, uncover the devilish secrets of the game and end it forever?

Packed with deadly intrigue and spicy romance, Enchantra will transport you to a world of feisty heroines and morally gray love interests, fake dating, forbidden desire and family secrets. If you love books by Rebecca Yarros, Carissa Broadbent and Lauren Roberts, prepare to discover your new romantasy obsession.

See why readers love this spicy fantasy romance

�OMG THIS BOOK!!!� I’m truly obsessed� I devoured it in two days.� ŷ reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐�

�I absolutely LOVED!! Romantasy at its finest.� NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐�

�God, I am never going to recover� I’m addicted!� I can’t even begin to put into words the rollercoaster of this book; the tension, the twists and turns that literally had me holding my breath until the VERY last page.� ŷ reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐�

“I cannot begin to describe how much I love this book� I have not stopped thinking about this story� Oh gosh I wish I could read this for the first time again!� I FELT EVERY EMOTION POSSIBLE WHILE READING THIS!!!� will forever hold a special place in my heart.� ŷ reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐�

�ALL THE STARS. I LOVED. I finished this in less than two days and I didn’t want it to end!� Gripping� An absolute must-read.� ŷ reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐�

�PERFECT!!!� Hooked from the very first moment� I read it in one sitting because I could not put it down!!!� Thenarnianreader_ ⭐⭐⭐⭐�

“One word � A-MA-ZING!� Loved loved loved� Highly recommend!� ŷ reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐�

“Fantastic read�spicy, spooky, and oh so swoon-worthy.]]> 443 Kaylie Smith 1835251471 Myriam 0 to-read 4.44 2025 Enchantra (Wicked Games, #2)
author: Kaylie Smith
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.44
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)]]> 51901147
The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.]]> 541 Suzanne Collins Myriam 3 This wasn't completely disappointing though, if it lacked the tension and emotions of the Hunger Games, it had some upsides, it was... entertaining, fast read, full of events (until the 3rd part that I didn't enjoy much)
Overall I was expecting much much more from this book.]]> 3.99 2020 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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Up to the last chapter I was waiting for SOMETHING!! Is this supposed to be a villain's origin story? This is just a basic opportunist's tale, a high level schemer, but this doesn't resemble Snow, the villain that we know and came to loathe.
This wasn't completely disappointing though, if it lacked the tension and emotions of the Hunger Games, it had some upsides, it was... entertaining, fast read, full of events (until the 3rd part that I didn't enjoy much)
Overall I was expecting much much more from this book.
]]> <![CDATA[Miriam: A Classic Story of Loneliness]]> 212888 One day, going into a movie theater, she meets a young, intelligent girl named Miriam. Mrs. Miller is intrigued that the girl's first name is also Miriam�

This creepy short story was originally published in the June 1945 issue of Mademoiselle. "Miriam" was one of Capote's first published short stories, and in 1946 it earned an O. Henry Award in the category Best First-Published Story.]]> 40 Truman Capote 0871918293 Myriam 0 to-read 3.95 1945 Miriam: A Classic Story of Loneliness
author: Truman Capote
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.95
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]]> فاتتني صلاة 43518268 226 إسلام جمال Myriam 0 to-read 4.36 2018 فاتتني صلاة
author: إسلام جمال
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> رسائل من النبي 201830869
Paperback : 363 Pages

Language : Arabic .]]> 363 أدهم شرقاوي 9921809237 Myriam 0 mine-own, currently-reading 4.38 رسائل من النبي
author: أدهم شرقاوي
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.38
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]]> Une bonne raison de se tuer 13375558
L'action se déroule le 4 novembre 2008, date de l'élection de Barack Obama. A Los Angeles comme partout ailleurs, c'est une journée d'exaltation, d'espoir de renouveau et d'attente fiévreuse. Mais tandis que l'Amérique semble retenir son souffle, impatiente de connaître l'issue de ce jour historique, pour Laura et Samuel, cette journée sera la plus longue et la plus terrible de leur vie. Car aujourd'hui Samuel doit se rendre aux funérailles de Paul, son fils de dix-sept ans qui vient de se suicider. Laura, femme seule de quarante-cinq ans, serveuse dans une cafétéria, a décidé, quant à elle, de se donner la mort le soir venu.
Pour chacun d'eux, l'enjeu sera le même : comment échapper au déroulement implacable de cette journée ? Samuel pourra-t-il surmonter son chagrin, ne serait-ce que le temps de la cérémonie ? A-t-il même le droit de survivre à l'absence de celui qui n'aurait jamais dû partir avant lui ? Et quel sens donner au geste de son fils, un geste d'autant plus révoltant qu'il est inexpliqué ? Laura, elle, a mûrement réfléchi son choix. Personne ne la regrettera, ni son fils indifférent ni son ex-mari qui, lui, a su refaire sa vie. Cette dernière journée aura-t-elle un goût moins fade que toutes celles qu'elle vient de laisser derrière elle ? Un goût d'exceptionnel qui pourrait la faire changer d'avis ? Samuel et Laura ne se connaissent pas encore. Pourtant ils ont déjà beaucoup en commun. Ils vont d'ailleurs se rencontrer... au crépuscule.
Roman de la mélancolie moderne, Une bonne raison de se tuer explore le sentiment de vide dans lequel nous plonge la société contemporaine. Pour décrire cette solitude, ces liens de plus en plus distendus entre les individus, Philippe Besson porte une attention soutenue à ces gestes machinaux qui forment un quotidien insipide, souvent inepte. En s'attardant sur une même et unique journée, il amplifie chaque détail, comme grossi à la loupe, et placé sous une lumière crue. Car, au fond, le lent écoulement du temps est tout ce qui reste aux personnages bouleversants de ce roman. Hommage au film d'Ettore Scola, Une journée particulière, auquel il fait écho, ce livre évoque en toile de fond une Amérique malade, mais son constat est bien plus vaste encore : le désespoir est, de toutes les menaces, la plus redoutable.]]> 336 Philippe Besson 2260020038 Myriam 3 mine-own 3.66 2012 Une bonne raison de se tuer
author: Philippe Besson
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/04/14
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L'écriture de Besson est toujours aussi magnifique, mais ce roman m'a semblé trainer en longueur.
]]> Final Girls 32796253
Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won’t even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.

That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.]]> 352 Riley Sager 1101985364 Myriam 0 to-read 3.81 2017 Final Girls
author: Riley Sager
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)]]> 62793 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780099282990

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial familes, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.]]> 389 Yukio Mishima Myriam 0 mine-own, to-read 4.18 1967 Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
author: Yukio Mishima
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> La Jeune fille à la perle 4997 Au fil du temps, la douceur, la sensibilité et la vivacité de la jeune fille émeuvent le maître qui l'introduit dans son univers. À mesure que s'affirme leur intimité, le scandale se propage dans la ville...
Un roman envoûtant sur la corruption de l'innocence, l'histoire d'un cœur simple sacrifié au bûcher du génie.]]> 313 Tracy Chevalier 2070417948 Myriam 5 mine-own This was such a deliciously descriptive book, it stimulates the imagination, it makes you see every detail in a very clear way, and it's never a boring description.
It was simply a perfect read for me!]]> 3.93 1999 La Jeune fille à la perle
author: Tracy Chevalier
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/09
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: mine-own
review:
I had a feeling that this was going to be a 5 stars read before I even started it, and I wasn't mistaken. I saw the movie based on this book years ago and I loved it so much! So it's not surprising that I LOVED the book, as usual, it was much more detailed, especially when it came to Griet's state of mind, in the movie, she's almost always silent, so we can't guess what's going on inside her. Here, we get to know Griet on a deeper level, the story is from her POV, she's a very smart sensible girl who got caught up in a situation (posing for a famous painter, here, Vermeer) too complicated for her and she still chose to stick to her principles and life rules... To a certain degree.
This was such a deliciously descriptive book, it stimulates the imagination, it makes you see every detail in a very clear way, and it's never a boring description.
It was simply a perfect read for me!
]]> <![CDATA[The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker]]> 214986203 From a neurologist and award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients

I'm a neurologist. Diagnosis is my bread and butter. So why then would I, an experienced medical doctor, be very careful about which diagnosis I would pursue for myself or would be willing to accept if foisted upon me?

We live in an age of diagnosis. The advance of sophisticated genetic sequencing techniques means that we may all soon be screened for potential abnormalities. The internet provides a vast array of information that helps us speculate about our symptoms. Conditions like ADHD and Autism are on the rapid rise, while other new categories like Long Covid are driven by patients themselves.

When we are suffering, it feels natural to seek a diagnosis. We want a clear label, understanding, and, of course, treatment. But is diagnosis an unqualified good thing? Could it sometimes even make us worse instead of better?

Through the moving stories of real people, neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan explores the complex world of modern diagnosis, comparing the impact of a medical label to the pain of not knowing. With scientific authority and compassionate storytelling, she opens up new possibilities for how we might approach our health and our suffering.]]> 320 Suzanne O'Sullivan 0593852915 Myriam 0 to-read 4.06 2025 The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
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name: Myriam
average rating: 4.06
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]]> Julie Chan Is Dead 220195725 In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.

Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse.

Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself thrust into the glamorous yet perilous world of her late twin sister, Chloe VanHuusen, a popular influencer. Separated at a young age, the identical twins were polar opposites and rarely spoke, except for one viral video that Chloe initiated (Finding My Long-Lost Twin And Buying Her A House #EMOTIONAL). When Julie discovers Chloe’s lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she seizes the chance to live the life she’s always envied.

Transforming into Chloe is easier than expected. Julie effortlessly adopts Chloe’s luxurious influencer life, complete with designer clothes, a meticulous skincare routine, and millions of adoring followers. However, Julie soon realizes that Chloe’s seemingly picture-perfect life was anything but.

Haunted by Chloe’s untimely death and struggling to fit into the privileged influencer circle, Julie faces mounting challenges during a weeklong island retreat with Chloe’s exclusive group of influencer friends. As events spiral out of control, Julie uncovers the sinister forces that may have led to her sister’s demise and realizes she might be the next target.]]> 320 Liann Zhang 1668067919 Myriam 0 to-read 3.81 2025 Julie Chan Is Dead
author: Liann Zhang
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.81
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]]> Cursed Bunny 56648660 Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.

Anton Hur’s translation skilfully captures the way Chung’s prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous. Winner of a PEN/Heim Grant.]]> 251 Bora Chung 1916277187 Myriam 3 3.76 2017 Cursed Bunny
author: Bora Chung
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2017
rating: 3
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While I enjoyed the weirdness of some stories, I couldn't focus while reading some others because I got bored. Overall, weird soft creepy stories that didn't push the limits of creepy and for me failed to fulfill their potential.
]]> تاكسي: حواديت المشاوير 2508854 224 Khaled Al Khamissi Myriam 0 to-read 3.67 2006 تاكسي: حواديت المشاوير
author: Khaled Al Khamissi
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2006
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]]> Where the Crawdads Sing 36809135
But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.]]> 384 Delia Owens 0735219117 Myriam 4 mine-own A story about an outcast, forgotten little girl who tried to live in a place where she was judged and faced with the uncalled for hatred of her peers. It's an overview of human nature that leads people to punish anyone who dares to be different and lives on the edge of what society deems acceptable. Kya had my heart all along this beautiful story!]]> 4.35 2018 Where the Crawdads Sing
author: Delia Owens
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
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3.5 rounded to 4
A story about an outcast, forgotten little girl who tried to live in a place where she was judged and faced with the uncalled for hatred of her peers. It's an overview of human nature that leads people to punish anyone who dares to be different and lives on the edge of what society deems acceptable. Kya had my heart all along this beautiful story!
]]> <![CDATA[The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse]]> 43708884
Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.]]> 128 Charlie Mackesy 1529105102 Myriam 5 mine-own A hug ❤️ 4.56 2019 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
author: Charlie Mackesy
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/31
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A hug ❤️
]]> بيت الجاز 223842089 «بيت الجاز»؛ رواية متعددة الأصوات، ترصد معاناة المرأة في مواجهة الألم والخسارة، والتضحيات التي تُجبَر على تقديمها في مجتمعٍ يُحاول إخفاء عاره. رحلة مؤثرة بين الصمت والأسرار، بحثًا عن معنى للوجود في عالمٍ مليء بالتناقضات. فهل سيجدنَ طريقًا للخلاص والشفاء،
أم ستظل جراحُ الماضي تُطاردهنّ؟]]> 208 نورا ناجي 9770939447 Myriam 0 to-read 4.11 بيت الجاز
author: نورا ناجي
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1) 52459864
When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.�

To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia�. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.]]> 394 Xiran Jay Zhao 0735269939 Myriam 0 to-read 4.03 2021 Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
author: Xiran Jay Zhao
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Holes (Holes, #1) 38709
It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.]]> 272 Louis Sachar 0439244196 Myriam 0 to-read 4.01 1998 Holes (Holes, #1)
author: Louis Sachar
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> Demon Copperhead 60194162 "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.]]> 560 Barbara Kingsolver 0063251922 Myriam 0 to-read 4.46 2022 Demon Copperhead
author: Barbara Kingsolver
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.46
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]]> Monstrilio 62888191 A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes

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

A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.]]> 336 Gerardo Sámano Córdova 1638930368 Myriam 4 mine-own 4.11 2023 Monstrilio
author: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/23
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I devoured (pun intended) this weird little tale about grief, love and acceptance.
]]> The Memory Police 37004370
When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.

A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.]]> 274 Yōko Ogawa 1101870605 Myriam 0 to-read 3.72 1994 The Memory Police
author: Yōko Ogawa
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 7489370 success de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.]]> 242 Oscar Wilde 014119264X Myriam 3 4.09 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1890
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/03/16
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This was both brilliant and tedious to read. I love classics, I enjoy slow books, but even for me, some passages dragged on forever. But oh well, one classic off the list.
]]> Sycorax 209350738 Born of the sun and of the moon, disfigured by fire and malady, comes the most powerful witch Algiers has ever seen...
This is the story of a young woman, treated with utter disdain, complete distrust and even, hate, when all she tried to do was help... This is the story of Sycorax.

A beautifully written and deeply moving imagining of what came before Shakespeare's The Tempest. ]]> 0 Nydia Hetherington 1529431107 Myriam 0 to-read 4.12 Sycorax
author: Nydia Hetherington
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.12
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]]> لا فتى إلا علي: حم عسق 210447921 406 عبد الإله بن عرفة 9953897565 Myriam 0 to-read 4.24 لا فتى إلا علي: حم عسق
author: عبد الإله بن عرفة
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.24
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]]> عرق البرنوس 50681645 لقد قيل إن ثلاثة سوائل أساسية تكون التاريخ: "الدم و المني و العرق"
و هذا الأثر في تاريخ تونس السياسي و الإجتماعي والإقتصادي المعاصر يتحدث عن أحدها.
"المعرب"
كتاب مهم جدا اذا ما أردنا الغوص في جرائم الاستعمار الفرنسي في عهد الجمهورية الثالثة]]> الازهر الماجري 9938073417 Myriam 0 to-read 4.09 عرق البرنوس
author: الازهر الماجري
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]]> The Unworthy 214151601 The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.

From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.

But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?

A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.]]> 192 Agustina Bazterrica 1668051885 Myriam 0 to-read 3.64 2023 The Unworthy
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name: Myriam
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ritual (The Plagueborne Trilogy #1)]]> 42445146 A devastating plague is sweeping the continent of Greater Virren...
Its origin is unknown, its dominance of the land near complete. In times of grim desperation, pestilence has given way to superstition, and the citizenry are now more divided than ever.

Yet the city of Rothenburg remains inexplicably untouched...
The Council has grown convinced of their immunity, even as their neighbours are consumed before them. As the world teeters on the brink of collapse, a zealous religious order has re-emerged. They claim to have discovered the source of the plague� but can they be trusted?

The plague will never reach Rothenberg...
Katarina Lorenz, a noble of the city and veteran of the civil war that shook the continent, remains unconvinced. She conspires to leave the city with her companion Tannhauser, to find out what's really going on beyond its walls.

THE RITUAL is the first in a trilogy of gripping high-fantasy novelettes. The debut possesses all the beloved hallmarks fans of the genre will recognise, but is distinguished by its gritty atmosphere and confrontation with some of the most unsettling chapters of human history.


]]> 137 Mitchell Lüthi Myriam 3 ebooks 3.73 2018 The Ritual (The Plagueborne Trilogy #1)
author: Mitchell Lüthi
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird]]> 62919399 A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica’s vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways—often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In “Roberto,� a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman’s neighbor jumps to his death in “A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound,� and in “Candy Pink,� a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps.

Written in Bazterrica’s signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.]]> 154 Agustina Bazterrica 1668012669 Myriam 0 to-read 3.11 2020 Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
author: Agustina Bazterrica
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.11
book published: 2020
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]]> Witchcraft for Wayward Girls 207611566 There’s power in a book�

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood.

In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master� (NPR).]]> 482 Grady Hendrix 0593548981 Myriam 0 to-read 4.00 2025 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.00
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]]> White Nights 29610266
A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.]]> 128 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0241252083 Myriam 4 mine-own Bobok: 3 stars]]> 4.02 1848 White Nights
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1848
rating: 4
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White Nights: 4 stars
Bobok: 3 stars
]]> <![CDATA[Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)]]> 204593711
It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family.

Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she was born into, where human bloodlines gain power through vampire companionship. When her sister, June, disappears, Kidan is convinced a vampire stole her—the very vampire bound to their family, the cruel yet captivating Susenyos Sagad.

To find June, Kidan must infiltrate the elite Uxlay University—where students study to ensure peaceful coexistence between humans and vampires and inherit their family legacies. Kidan must survive living with Susenyos—even as he does everything he can to drive her away. It doesn’t matter that Susenyos’s wickedness speaks to Kidan’s own violent nature and tempts her to surrender to a life of darkness. She must find her sister and kill Susenyos at all costs.

When a murder mirroring June’s disappearance shakes Uxlay, Kidan sinks further into the ruthless underworld of vampires, risking her very soul. There she discovers a centuries-old threat—and June could be at the center of it. To save her sister, Kidan must bring Uxlay to its knees and either break free from the horrors of her own actions or embrace the dark entanglements of love—and the blood it requires.]]> 432 Tigest Girma Myriam 0 to-read 3.66 2024 Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
author: Tigest Girma
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.66
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]]> An Academy for Liars 203956639 A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.

Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart.

Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because—like everyone else at the school—she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself.

After passing the test, Lennon begins to learn how to master her devastating and unsettling power. But despite persuasion’s heavy toll on her body and mind, she is wholly captivated by her studies, by Drayton’s lush, moss-draped campus, and by her brilliant classmates. But even more captivating is her charismatic adviser, Dante, who both intimidates and enthralls her.

As Lennon continues in her studies her control grows, and she starts to uncover more about the secret world she has entered into, including the disquieting history of Drayton College, and the way her mentor’s tragic and violent past intertwines with it. She is increasingly disturbed by what she learns. For it seems that the ultimate test is to embrace absolute power without succumbing to corruption . . . and it's a test she's terrified she is going to fail.]]> 464 Alexis Henderson 0593638301 Myriam 0 to-read 3.45 2024 An Academy for Liars
author: Alexis Henderson
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average rating: 3.45
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]]> Ripe 62919394
Though isolated, Cassie is never alone. From her earliest memory, a miniature black hole has been her constant companion. It feeds on her depression and anxiety, its size changing in relation to her distress. The black hole watches, but it also waits. Its relentless pull draws Cassie ever-closer as the world around her unravels.

When her CEO’s demands cross an illegal threshold and she ends up unexpectedly pregnant, Cassie must decide whether the tempting fruits of Silicon Valley are really worth it. Sharp but vulnerable, funny yet unsettling, Ripe portrays one millennial woman’s journey through a late-capitalist hellscape and offers an incisive look at the absurdities of modern life.]]> 288 Sarah Rose Etter 1668011638 Myriam 0 to-read 3.60 2023 Ripe
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name: Myriam
average rating: 3.60
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]]> The Hole 31213272 A bestseller in Korea, a psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury.

In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife’s life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Ogi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house. But soon Ogi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.

Evoking Herman Koch’s The Dinner and Stephen King’s Misery, award-winning author Hye-young Pyun’s The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms. As Ogi desperately searches for a way to escape, he discovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her.
]]> 198 Hye-Young Pyun 1628727802 Myriam 0 to-read 3.35 2016 The Hole
author: Hye-Young Pyun
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2016
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]]> 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 Myriam 4 ebooks 4.16 2017 Almond
author: Sohn Won-Pyung
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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How can such a detached character convey this amount of emotion throughout the story? This book is unique, to say the least.
]]> J'emporterai le feu 216564181
Enfants de la troisième génération de la famille Belhaj, Mia et Inès sont nées dans les années 1980. Comme leur grand-mère Mathilde, leur mère Aïcha ou leur tante Selma, elles cherchent à être libres chacune à sa façon, dans l’exil ou dans la solitude. Il leur faudra se faire une place, apprendre de nouveaux codes, affronter les préjugés, le racisme parfois.
Leïla Slimani achève ici de façon splendide la trilogie du Pays des autres, fresque familiale emportée par une poésie vigoureuse et un souffle d’une grande puissance.]]> 432 Leïla Slimani 2073098363 Myriam 0 to-read 4.40 J'emporterai le feu
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]]> <![CDATA[Sword of Allah: Khalid bin Al Waleed]]> 3406561 504 Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram 071010104X Myriam 0 to-read 4.13 1997 Sword of Allah: Khalid bin Al Waleed
author: Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1997
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]]> Fruit of the Dead 176443312
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.

Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America’s own late capitalist mythos. Lyon’s reinvention of Persephone and Demeter’s story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it.]]> 320 Rachel Lyon 1668020858 Myriam 0 ebooks, to-read 3.50 2024 Fruit of the Dead
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name: Myriam
average rating: 3.50
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]]> Nothing Serious 213344055 A disillusioned tech executive goes into an obsessive spiral when her best friend—and longtime crush—is implicated in a woman’s death.

Edie Walker’s life is not going as planned. At thirty-five she feels stuck: in her career, in her love life, and in her tiny San Francisco studio apartment. It doesn’t help that her best friend, Peter Masterson, is basically the über successful male version of her—and she’s hopelessly, unrequitedly in love with him. But when Peter breaks up with his girlfriend of seven years, Edie thinks her life might finally be turning around. He’ll discover how toxic dating-app culture is and realize Edie has been right for him all along.

Except Peter almost immediately lands a date with Anaya Thomas, a gorgeous, whip-smart professor and writer of feminist literature whom even Edie—reared in the culture of tech bros—is smitten by. Unlike the women Peter has dated before, Anaya is like an alternative-reality version of Edie—one with shampoo-commercial hair and a meaningful career, who definitely doesn’t spend her weekends scrolling social media alone in her apartment. It’s only a matter of time before Peter falls head over heels for this woman; Edie herself is infatuated after one meeting.

Then Anaya is found dead in her apartment—right after a date with Peter.]]> 272 Emily J. Smith 006338583X Myriam 0 to-read 3.29 2025 Nothing Serious
author: Emily J. Smith
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2025
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]]> The Doloriad 57845084 240 Missouri Williams 0374605084 Myriam 0 ebooks, to-read 3.13 2022 The Doloriad
author: Missouri Williams
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.13
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Blood Over Bright Haven 208430658 Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling.

An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant.

What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power.

Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance?

A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

(Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)]]> 430 M.L. Wang 0593873351 Myriam 5 ebooks 4.40 2023 Blood Over Bright Haven
author: M.L. Wang
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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Tbh I knew this was going to be a 5 stars read before even finishing it! The book's themes, arcs, pace and how everything evolved and culminated into a perfect ending. I'm speechless about how BRILLIANT this was!
]]> The Sword of Kaigen 41886271 A son struggling to grasp his violent future,
A father blind to the danger that threatens them all.

When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores?

High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.�

Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies.

Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.]]> 651 M.L. Wang Myriam 0 to-read 4.46 2019 The Sword of Kaigen
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name: Myriam
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2019
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]]> Le Rêve d'un homme ridicule 1424499 59 Fyodor Dostoevsky Myriam 3 mine-own 4.01 1877 Le Rêve d'un homme ridicule
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1877
rating: 3
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]]> L'éternel mari 936312 286 Fyodor Dostoevsky 2070360970 Myriam 0 to-read 3.76 1870 L'éternel mari
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1870
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]]> <![CDATA[A Deal with the Bossy Devil (Bad Billionaire Bosses, #1)]]> 211974738
I regret nothing.
�
Okay, maybe I regret some things.
In my defense, I was pretty sure I wouldn’t get caught.
Also in my defense, I had no way of knowing that “The Incident� would go viral.

But Toronto’s most notorious billionaire isn’t exactly known for his generous or understanding spirit, and he doesn’t want to hear my excuses.
Not when my little public stunt cost him the biggest investment deal of his career.

What he does want is cold, hard revenge.
And that’s how I find myself backed into a corner, forced to strike a deal with the snarly, green-eyed devil.
I have no choice but to be at his beck and call 24 hours a day, succumbing to his every bossy whim.
But as his demands—and the blistering tension—become increasingly unbearable, I can’t help but start to bite back.

Adrien Cloutier isn’t a man to be messed with, though.
And as the old saying goes, bad girls deserve to be punished.

This is a full-length enemies-to-lovers romance with loads of spicy banter and laugh-out-loud moments, featuring a dimpled bosshole devil in a suit and the smart-mouthed woman who brings him to his knees. (Literally.)

� Enemies to lovers
� Fake relationship
� Only one bed
� Three slow-burn peppers
� Good girl]]> 434 Kyra Parsi Myriam 0 to-read 4.11 2023 A Deal with the Bossy Devil (Bad Billionaire Bosses, #1)
author: Kyra Parsi
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[Grimoire (Dark Fiction & Horror Anthology, #1)]]> 61401427
Engaging and provocative, these tales of the damned stalk the graveyards at night, crawl up from the empty and wet places of this world, and haunt the dreams of all who read them. Combining both ancient and modern horrors, this anthology takes the reader beyond the comfort of the hearth, and into the gaping mouth of hell.

Grimoire features tales by C. L. Werner, Madison Kilian, Erica Schaef, Mitchell Lűthi and H. P. Lovecraft.]]> 436 Mitchell Lüthi Myriam 0 to-read 3.87 Grimoire (Dark Fiction & Horror Anthology, #1)
author: Mitchell Lüthi
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]]> Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror 199114861
Inspired by a rich blend of Arabic, Christian, and pre-Islamic traditions, Pilgrim delivers a pulse-pounding story of action, adventure, and bone-chilling horror.]]> 708 Mitchell Lüthi Myriam 0 to-read 4.05 2023 Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror
author: Mitchell Lüthi
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.05
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]]> دار الباشا 9970735 187 حسن نصر Myriam 3 mine-own أما الحكاية حسيتها برشا حكايات ما خذاوش حقهم، كاينو هيكل متاع كتاب، و الحبكة مش متماسكة، و تحب تشد خيط اللغز متاع دار الباشا أما الكاتب رفض إنك تفهمو.]]> 3.76 1994 دار الباشا
author: حسن نصر
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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سؤال بسيط، ياخي ما يعملوش مراجعة للكتاب قبل نشرو؟ تقريبا كل صفحة فيها غلطة، حرف زايد، حرف ناقص، كلمتين ولاو كلمة...
أما الحكاية حسيتها برشا حكايات ما خذاوش حقهم، كاينو هيكل متاع كتاب، و الحبكة مش متماسكة، و تحب تشد خيط اللغز متاع دار الباشا أما الكاتب رفض إنك تفهمو.
]]> عشاق بية 13274454
أربعة شيوخ مسنّين، يعشق اثنان منهم المرأة نفسها التي سيتزوّجها فيما بعد ابن أحدهما.

سُرد كلّ ذلك بلغة بسيطة شفّافة ترتقي بحواراتهم الساذجة إِلى مستوى فنّي رفيع.

د.يمنى العيد

ولد الحبيب السّالمي في ولاية القيروان بتونس عام 1951. حصل على التبريز في الأدب العربيّ من جامعة السوربون في باريس حيث يقيم ويعمل في التدريس والصحافة. صدرت له أربع روايات ومجموعات قصصيّة. تُرجم عدد من أعماله إِلى الإِنكليزيّة والإِسبانيّة والنروجيّة والفرنسيّة والهولنديّة.]]> 231 الحبيب السالمي Myriam 0 to-read 3.67 2002 عشاق بية
author: الحبيب السالمي
name: Myriam
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2002
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brass Wyvern (The Blessed Imperium, #1)]]> 217875279 How, exactly, do you steal a dragon?

The holy city of Muqdah is falling. For days, the priests of the First Temple have argued amongst themselves � despite the cracks growing in the city’s magical shields. But fighting the Imperial army could mean the sacrifice of Muqdah’s dragons. Only one among their number believes it worth the risk � and the lone voice of a pregnant woman falls on deaf ears.

In the great Imperium, a slave named Zuri escapes into the night. Arriving on the doorstep of the Brass Wyvern, she discovers kinship, safety � and an unexpected purpose. When the bedworkers there hear of her captors� caged dragon, a plan is hatched: free the beast, right history’s wrongs.

As Imperial magic and ancient bloodlines collide, an oppressed people start to make their voices heard. But not everyone sees eye-to-eye on justice, and a royal heist is easier said than done.

The Brass Wyvern is a witty fantasy epic with anti-colonialist vibes, queer love, feminine rage, found family, and of course � sweet, sweet revenge.]]> 476 Bronte-Marie Wesson 1763682129 Myriam 0 to-read 4.29 The Brass Wyvern (The Blessed Imperium, #1)
author: Bronte-Marie Wesson
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]]> متحف العاهات 35666233 مصحة الدمى (2015)
أريج البستان في تصاريف العميان (2013)
الشركة المغربية لنقل الأموات (2011)
اعتقال الغابة في زجاجة (2009)]]> 422 أنيس الرافعي Myriam 0 to-read 4.25 2017 متحف العاهات
author: أنيس الرافعي
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2017
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]]> A Dog's Heart 1033971
A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance.

As in The Master and Margarita, the masterpiece he completed shortly before his death, Mikhail Bulgakov's early novel, written in 1925, combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of deadpan naturalism. The Heart of a Dog can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.]]> 116 Mikhail Bulgakov 0140455159 Myriam 0 to-read 4.04 1925 A Dog's Heart
author: Mikhail Bulgakov
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1925
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]]> Le maître et Marguerite 59406832 Chef-d’oeuvre de la littérature russe, «Le Maître et Marguerite» dénonce dans un rire féroce les pouvoirs autoritaires, les veules qui s’en accommodent, les artistes complaisants, l’absence imbécile de doute.
André Markowicz, qui en retraduisant les oeuvres de Fiodor Dostoïevski leur a rendu toute leur force, s’attaque à un monument littéraire et nous restitue sa cruauté première, son souffle romanesque, son universalité.]]> 631 Mikhail Bulgakov 2360841351 Myriam 5 mine-own
Le Maître et Marguerite reminded me that some books need to be read slowly, to fully appreciate them. This was an insane book! The premise is the devil and his suite visiting Moscow, and doing what the devil does best: wreaking havoc! The book is dizzying, so sooo many names, stories, plots and subplots. When I reached the middle of the book I was starting to believe that I was done and that this madness would never end, but I carried on, and it did what every classic book does: it started revealing its incredible wit, beauty and masterful language.

Why read this book?
If you enjoy Russian literature and want to explore more of it and not just stick to Dosto and Tolstoy.
This book was banned and censored, and if it wasn't for Boulgakov's wife, it would have never existed.
It's a deep dive in the life under the USSR, so if you're interested in that era, you'll enjoy this.
There's a talking demon cat!!]]> 4.33 1967 Le maître et Marguerite
author: Mikhail Bulgakov
name: Myriam
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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Two words: fever dream.

Le Maître et Marguerite reminded me that some books need to be read slowly, to fully appreciate them. This was an insane book! The premise is the devil and his suite visiting Moscow, and doing what the devil does best: wreaking havoc! The book is dizzying, so sooo many names, stories, plots and subplots. When I reached the middle of the book I was starting to believe that I was done and that this madness would never end, but I carried on, and it did what every classic book does: it started revealing its incredible wit, beauty and masterful language.

Why read this book?
If you enjoy Russian literature and want to explore more of it and not just stick to Dosto and Tolstoy.
This book was banned and censored, and if it wasn't for Boulgakov's wife, it would have never existed.
It's a deep dive in the life under the USSR, so if you're interested in that era, you'll enjoy this.
There's a talking demon cat!!
]]> Wake Up and Open Your Eyes 204640265 From Vulture's "master of horror" Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless and emotionally charged social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media, for fans of The Last of Us and When Evil Lurks

Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reawakening� is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trance-like state in front of the TV. Panicked, Noah attempts to snap them out of it and get medical help.

Then Noah’s mother brutally attacks him.

But Noah isn’t the only person to be attacked by a loved one. Families across the country are tearing each other apart-–literally-–as people succumb to a form of possession that gets worse the more time they spend watching particular channels, using certain apps, or visiting certain websites. In Noah’s Richmond-based family, only he and his young nephew Marcus are unaffected. Together, they must race back to the safe haven of Brooklyn�-but can they make it before they fall prey to the violent hordes?

This ambitious, searing novel from "one of horror's modern masters" holds a mirror to our divided nation, and will shake readers to the core.]]> 384 Clay McLeod Chapman Myriam 0 to-read 3.38 2025 Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
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]]> Blue Nights 10252302
Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?� Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.

Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.]]> 208 Joan Didion 0307267679 Myriam 0 to-read 3.92 2011 Blue Nights
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]]> A Streetcar Named Desire 12220 Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams� essay “The World I Live In.�

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared�57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams� A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the �40s and �50s.]]> 107 Tennessee Williams 0822210894 Myriam 0 to-read 3.98 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire
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]]> <![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 387 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Myriam 0 to-read 4.62 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)]]> 16085481
When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back.

Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should—and should not—marry.

Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.]]> 403 Kevin Kwan 0385536976 Myriam 0 to-read 3.91 2013 Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
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]]> منامات عم أحمد السماك 6470449 179 خيري شلبي 977070654X Myriam 0 to-read 3.63 1999 منامات عم أحمد السماك
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]]> بنداري 208157543 يستهلُّ الأديب الراحل الأستاذ كمال رُحيِّم روايته الأخيرة بهذه الجملة. كأنما انتابه شعورٌ أن هذه هي روايته الأخيرة أيضًا كما هو اليوم الأخير لعَمّ بنداري.
بنداري حارس الشُّونَة (بنك التسليف)، الرجل البسيط الذي كان يسرَح بالبهائم، لكن له طموحاته وتطلُّعاته الخاصة التي مكَّنته ... المزيد]]> 152 Kamal Ruhayyim 9774907191 Myriam 0 to-read 3.32 بنداري
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]]> <![CDATA[How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control]]> 52665079 THE PILL

Changes your brain
Alters your stress response
Can increase your risk of depression
Affects your choice of mate selection

Hormonal birth control is taken by millions of women around the world every day. Yet until recently we knew very little about how the Pill affects the non-reproductive systems of the female body, because research on these other systems was conducted almost exclusively on men. In her trailblazing book, Dr Sarah Hill uses the latest science to reveal how the Pill is changing women and the world, for better and worse. She puts the power back in your hands to make smarter, more informed choices about your health and your hormones.


IT'S EVERYTHING YOUR DOCTOR NEVER TOLD YOU

]]> 320 Sarah E. Hill Myriam 0 to-read 4.01 2019 How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control
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]]> When the Emperor Was Divine 764073
In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view "the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years in captivity" she has created a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion.

Spare, intimate, arrestingly understated, When the Emperor Was Divine is a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times. It heralds the arrival of a singularly gifted new novelist.

From the Hardcover edition.]]> 144 Julie Otsuka Myriam 0 to-read 3.80 2002 When the Emperor Was Divine
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]]> <![CDATA[Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality]]> 7640261
How can reality be reconciled with the accepted narrative? It can't be, according to renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá. While debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, they offer a bold alternative explanation in this provocative and brilliant book.

Ryan and Jethá's central contention is that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. Human beings everywhere and in every era have confronted the same familiar, intimate situations in surprisingly different ways. The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity.

With intelligence, humor, and wonder, Ryan and Jethá show how our promiscuous past haunts our struggles over monogamy, sexual orientation, and family dynamics. They explore why long-term fidelity can be so difficult for so many; why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens; why many middle-aged men risk everything for transient affairs with younger women; why homosexuality persists in the face of standard evolutionary logic; and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality.

In the tradition of the best historical and scientific writing, Sex at Dawn unapologetically upends unwarranted assumptions and unfounded conclusions while offering a revolutionary understanding of why we live and love as we do.]]> 416 Christopher Ryan Myriam 0 to-read 3.95 2010 Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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]]> <![CDATA[The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)]]> 58416952 At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.

AUDI. VIDE. TACE.

The Catenan Republic � the Hierarchy � may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.

I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus � what they call Will � to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.

I tell them that I belong, and they believe me.

But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.

And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family.

To survive, though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me.

And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.]]> 639 James Islington 1982141190 Myriam 5
If you want to read fantasy that is not typical or with a repetitive concept, you must try this book!]]> 4.60 2023 The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
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As a reader, every once in a while comes a book that reminds me of why I love reading! The Will of the Many is one of those books! To say I enjoyed it is an understatement. I was completely absorbed from the first chapter. The Roman inspiration, the complex (yet easy to understand) world building, the characters, the writing, the pace... Not a dulll moment with this book, AND the freaking ending that made my jaw drop... And left me with more questions than answers (but that's the risk when you start fantasy series that are not finished yet). The plot is layered, the more you read, the more you discover and the more the greatness of the plot is revealed to you.

If you want to read fantasy that is not typical or with a repetitive concept, you must try this book!
]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)]]> 22878967 It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience.

As a student of the Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war fought—and lost—before he was born. Despised by most beyond the school walls, he and those around him are all but prisoners as they attempt to learn control of the Gift. Worse, as Davian struggles with his lessons, he knows that there is further to fall if he cannot pass his final tests.

But when Davian discovers he has the ability to wield the forbidden power of the Augurs, he sets into motion a chain of events that will change everything. To the north, an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir. And to the west, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian’s wakes up in the forest, covered in blood and with no memory of who he is…]]> 602 James Islington 099258020X Myriam 0 to-read 4.13 2014 The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Something Wicked This Way Comes]]> 248596 Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.

For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.

Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon.]]> 293 Ray Bradbury 0380729407 Myriam 0 to-read 3.91 1962 Something Wicked This Way Comes
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]]> Numamushi: A Fairy Tale 178767457 112 Mina Ikemoto Ghosh 1941360777 Myriam 0 to-read 4.34 Numamushi: A Fairy Tale
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]]> The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1) 55196813
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.]]> 304 Nita Prose 0593356152 Myriam 0 to-read 3.71 2022 The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
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]]> Shatila Stories 40488767
Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene commissioned nine refugees to tell their ‘Shatila Stories�. The result is a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East � or you just want to follow the course of a beautiful love story � start here.

Adam and his family flee Syria and arrive at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Conditions in this overcrowded Palestinian camp are tough, and violence defines many of the relationships: a father fights to save his daughter, a gang leader plots to expand his influence, and drugs break up a family. Adam struggles to make sense of his refugee experience, but then he meets Shatha and starts to view the camp through her eyes.

Why Peirene chose to commission this book:
‘I want to hear their stories and see if their imaginations can open up a new path of understanding between us. Collaborative works of literature can achieve what no other literature can do. By pooling our imaginations we are able to access something totally different and new that goes beyond boundaries � that of the individual, of nations, of cultures. It connects us to our common human essence: our creativity. Let’s make stories, not more war.� Meike Ziervogel]]> 127 Omar Khaled Ahmad 1908670487 Myriam 0 to-read 4.24 2018 Shatila Stories
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]]> Thirst 174156085 Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America’s feminist Gothic.

It is the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet.

In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back.

With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.]]> 256 Marina Yuszczuk 0593472063 Myriam 0 to-read 3.43 2020 Thirst
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]]> The Devils (The Devils #1) 212276037 A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey

Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds.

Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends.

Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side]]> 560 Joe Abercrombie 125088005X Myriam 0 to-read 4.43 2025 The Devils (The Devils #1)
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]]> Go as a River 63922274 A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century Colorado

On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.

So begins the mesmerizing story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.

Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life forever.

Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.]]> 320 Shelley Read 1954118236 Myriam 0 to-read 4.20 2023 Go as a River
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]]> Violeta 57933338 The epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. . . .

She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics.

Told through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.]]> 322 Isabel Allende 0593496205 Myriam 0 to-read 3.97 2022 Violeta
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]]> <![CDATA[The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)]]> 169485073 This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many—one of 2023’s most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels—follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could change the course of history across alternate dimensions.


OMNE TRIUM PERFECTUM.

The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am.

But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore.

I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything—and now, impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me across three separate worlds. A different version of myself in each of Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives. I have to hide; fight; play politics. I have to train; trust; lie. I have to kill; heal; prove myself again, and again, and again.

I am loved, and hated, and entirely alone.

Above all, though, I need to find answers before it’s too late. To understand the nature of what has happened to me, and why.

I need to find a way to stop the coming Cataclysm, because if all I have learned is true, I may be the only one who can.]]> James Islington Myriam 0 to-read 4.68 2025 The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
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]]> Giovanni’s Room 406235 178 James Baldwin Myriam 4 ebooks
First, oh my god James Baldwin's writing is so beautiful! It's smooth and nuanced and so enticing. I couldn't get enough of the depth he conveys with every sentence. Second, the book, just heartbreaking! The story is about David and Giovanni's love story, but it's not that simple. It's also a question about sexual identity, being torn about who you really are and what you are supposed to be. It's about the hate in the midst of love, the confusing emotions, when love turns sour and every moment seems like it's going to lead to heartbreak. Because not only there's the relationship with Giovanni, but also with Hella. David manages to not find satisfaction in both, he doesn't take a definite stance. He drowns into himself, and can't find the way to redemption.

I loved this book, it can be emotionally wrecking to some people, so, read with caution!]]> 4.40 1956 Giovanni’s Room
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A punch in the guts of a book!

First, oh my god James Baldwin's writing is so beautiful! It's smooth and nuanced and so enticing. I couldn't get enough of the depth he conveys with every sentence. Second, the book, just heartbreaking! The story is about David and Giovanni's love story, but it's not that simple. It's also a question about sexual identity, being torn about who you really are and what you are supposed to be. It's about the hate in the midst of love, the confusing emotions, when love turns sour and every moment seems like it's going to lead to heartbreak. Because not only there's the relationship with Giovanni, but also with Hella. David manages to not find satisfaction in both, he doesn't take a definite stance. He drowns into himself, and can't find the way to redemption.

I loved this book, it can be emotionally wrecking to some people, so, read with caution!
]]> بطن البقرة 6795146 270 خيري شلبي Myriam 0 to-read 3.80 1995 بطن البقرة
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]]> Milk Fed 54304105 The Pisces and So Sad Today.

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.

Early in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam—by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family—and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche—both sacred and profane.]]> 304 Melissa Broder 1982142499 Myriam 0 to-read 3.56 2021 Milk Fed
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]]> Go Tell It on the Mountain 17143 Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.]]> 256 James Baldwin 0141185910 Myriam 0 to-read 4.06 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain
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]]> نعناع الجناين 3657589 من فوق " مصطبة" الريف المصرى يستمع أهل المدن وغيرها إلى كثير من الحكايات الصيلة .. عن هؤلاء الفلاحين بحياتهم البسيطة وبيوتهم التىتمرح فيها الحيوانات مع بنى الإنسان .. وفى هذا الكتاب يمتعنا " خيرى شلبى" بحكاية أخرى من حكايات الريف المصرى الزاخر.. ترى فيها " الكتاب " والأطفال يحفظون فيه القرآن الكريم وترى حلقات السمر فى الليالى المقمرة.. وترى فرحة العائلة يوم تخرج أحد أبناءها وقد أصبح "أفندى" ويوم إفتتاح أول مدرسة إبتدائية فى تلك القرية القابعة فى الوجه البحرى للخريطة المصرية.. وغيرها من الأحداث والمشاعر النقية تصدر عن إنسان القرنالعشرين منذ بداباته ولكن فى القرية المصرية.. نراها وهى تتدحرج مع الأحداث السياسية والإجتماعية والإقتصادية لمصر ومردوداتها على القرية وكيف يكون التأثر .. فإلى عالم القرية ترى بعض من أصالة وعراقة الإنسان المصرى .. بل الفلاح المصرى.]]> 195 خيري شلبي 9770712183 Myriam 0 to-read 3.55 2006 نعناع الجناين
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]]> <![CDATA[Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters]]> 44157727 Empowering life lessons from myths and monsters.

Wonder at Medusa's potent venom, Circe's fierce sorcery and Athena rising up over Olympus, as Nikita Gill majestically explores the untold stories of the life bringers, warriors, creators, survivors and destroyers that shook the world - the great Greek Goddesses.

Vividly re-imagined and beautifully illustrated, step into an ancient world transformed by modern feminist magic.

'I watch Girl become Goddess
and the metamorphosis is more
magnificent than anything
I have ever known.' ]]> 248 Nikita Gill 1529104645 Myriam 0 to-read 4.15 2019 Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
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