رغْدُ العَيْش's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:39:41 -0700 60 رغْدُ العَيْش's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Dry Heart 45414967 Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: "I shot him between the eyes." As the tale � a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness � proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?]]> 98 Natalia Ginzburg 0811228797 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 3.88 1947 The Dry Heart
author: Natalia Ginzburg
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1947
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/06
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]]> Hard Times 827701
Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes that his own misguided principles have ruined their lives.

Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist's finest creations.

Of Dickens' work, the eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin had this to "He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions."]]> 430 Charles Dickens 0192833677 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 classics, owned-and-read 3.40 1854 Hard Times
author: Charles Dickens
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1854
rating: 3
read at: 2015/07/15
date added: 2025/04/09
shelves: classics, owned-and-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Malum Discordiae (Tennebrose, #1)]]> 60711601
As the first weather witch born in a century, the witches in Winslow demand great things from Graeme Hewitt, despite his thoughts on the matter. He’s supposed to be their future, but all Graeme can think about is the past � until the infuriating Cassius Corbin returns. In spite of the blood feud that has raged for centuries between their families, Graeme finds himself in the unfortunate situation of needing Cassius’s help. Six years ago, Graeme’s little brother also died and Graeme wants the truth about what happened that day. So who better to answer his questions than the son of the woman who murdered him?


Malum Discordiae is a dark, paranormal MM romance about witches, Necromancers, and a blood feud that has lasted centuries. It is a standalone book of about 117K words.

Content Warning: This book contains references to animal cruelty, alcohol/drug use, death of children, murder, suicide, and dubious consent. Reader discretion is advised. ]]> 456 Ashlyn Drewek رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks, read-women 4.07 2022 Malum Discordiae (Tennebrose, #1)
author: Ashlyn Drewek
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/05
date added: 2025/04/05
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]]> Tower 54609416 253 Bae Myung-hoon 1916277128 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.68 2009 Tower
author: Bae Myung-hoon
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)]]> 207573359 From debut author Maiga Doocy comes the charming tale of an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly rival as they venture deep into a magical forest in search of a counterspell that can break the curse between them—only to discover that magic might not be the only thing pulling them together.

Leovander Loveage is a master of small magics. He can summon butterflies with a song or turn someone’s hair pink by snapping his fingers. Though such minor charms don’t earn him much respect, anything more elaborate always blows up in his face, and so Leo vowed long ago never to use powerful magic again.

That is, until a mishap with a forbidden spell binds Leo to obey the commands of his longtime rival, Sebastian Grimm. Grimm is Leo’s complete opposite—respected, exceptionally talented, and absolutely insufferable. The only thing they can agree on is that revealing the curse between them would mean the end of their respective magical careers. They need a counterspell, and fast.

Chasing rumors of a powerful sorcerer with a knack for undoing curses, Leo and Grimm enter the Unquiet Wood, a forest infested with murderous monsters and dangerous outlaws alike. To break the curse, they will have to uncover the true depths of Leo’s magic, set aside their long-standing rivalry, and—much to their horror—work together.

Even as an odd spark of attraction flares between them.]]> 391 Maiga Doocy 031657676X رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks, read-women 4.39 2024 Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)
author: Maiga Doocy
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/02
date added: 2025/04/01
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping]]> 52920818 Vulture Best Book of 2020

This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth.

In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help.

The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from "this generation's Virginia Woolf" (Telegraph).]]> 192 Samantha Harvey 0802148824 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.65 2020 The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
author: Samantha Harvey
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> Strega 60372438 Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a remote Alpine hotel and what happens when one of them goes missing

With toiletries, hairbands, and notebooks in her bag, and at her mother's instruction, nineteen-year-old Rafa leaves her parents' home and the seaside town she grew up in. Out the train window, she sees the lit-up mountains and perfect trees--and the Olympic Hotel waiting for her perched above the small village of Strega. There, she and eight other young women receive the stiff black uniforms of seasonal workers and move into their shared dorm. But while they toil constantly to perform their role and prepare the hotel for guests, none arrive. Instead, they contort themselves daily to the expectations of their strict, matronly bosses without clear purpose and, in their spare moments, escape to the herb garden, confide in each other, and quickly find solace together. Finally, the hotel is filled with people for a wild and raucous party, only for one of the women to disappear. What follows are deeper revelations about the myths we teach young women, what we raise them to expect from the world, and whether a gentler, more beautiful life is possible.]]> 208 Johanne Lykke Holm 0593539672 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.15 2020 Strega
author: Johanne Lykke Holm
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.15
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> Masters of Death 38311338 From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes Masters of Death, a story about vampires, ghosts, and death itself!

Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the house has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on.

Fox D’Mora is a medium, and though is also most-definitely a shameless fraud, he isn’t entirely without his uses—seeing as he’s actually the godson of Death.

When Viola seeks out Fox to help her with her ghost-infested mansion, he becomes inextricably involved in a quest that neither he nor Vi expects (or wants). But with the help of an unruly poltergeist, a demonic personal trainer, a sharp-voiced angel, a love-stricken reaper, and a few high-functioning creatures, Vi and Fox soon discover the difference between a mysterious lost love and an annoying dead body isn’t nearly as distinct as they thought.]]> 349 Olivie Blake رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.64 2018 Masters of Death
author: Olivie Blake
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> The Moor's Account 20262502
But from the moment the Narváez expedition landed in Florida, it faced peril—navigational errors, disease, starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year there were only four survivors: the expedition’s treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer named Andrés Dorantes de Carranza; and Dorantes’s Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, whom the three Spaniards called Estebanico. These four survivors would go on to make a journey across America that would transform them from proud conquistadores to humble servants, from fearful outcasts to faith healers.]]> 321 Laila Lalami 0307911667 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.02 2014 The Moor's Account
author: Laila Lalami
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism]]> 56753637
What makes “cults� so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .

Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.� But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day.

Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,� revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish� everywhere.]]> 310 Amanda Montell 0062993178 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 3.90 2021 Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
author: Amanda Montell
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character]]> 9688046 273 Jonathan Shay 1439124922 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks, nonfiction 4.28 1994 Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
author: Jonathan Shay
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/23
shelves: ebooks, nonfiction
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]]> Conclave 31131997 The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men.

The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on Earth.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 305 Robert Harris رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.11 2016 Conclave
author: Robert Harris
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Four Weekends and a Funeral 201751633
When thirty-year-old post-double-mastectomy BRCA 1 carrier and reluctant thrill-seeker Alison Mullally arrives at her ex-boyfriend Sam’s funeral to find that no one knows he dumped her, she agrees to play the grieving girlfriend for the sake of the family and pack up Sam’s apartment with his prickly best friend, Adam Berg. After all, it’ll only take four weekends . . .

But Adam doesn’t want Alison anywhere near him. Forced to spend long hours with the grump, and his monosyllabic demeanor, Alison decides she must put her people-pleasing abilities to the test. She will make him like her. And after awkward family affairs and packing up dilemmas, the two form a tenuous friendship . . . if “friendship� means incredible chemistry and tension between them. Can Alison come clean and finally embrace the life and love she's always wanted? Or will her little white lie get in the way of her new, unexpected romance?]]> 368 Ellie Palmer رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.70 2024 Four Weekends and a Funeral
author: Ellie Palmer
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> Emma, A Fragment 36152999
Twenty pages of pure Brontë, her final work.]]> 20 Charlotte Brontë رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.08 1860 Emma, A Fragment
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1860
rating: 0
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]]> The Piano Teacher 219879 The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.

Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.

Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.]]> 288 Elfriede Jelinek 0802118062 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.65 1983 The Piano Teacher
author: Elfriede Jelinek
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Think of England (England World, #2)]]> 34715257
England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage.

Curtis’s search takes him to an isolated, ultra-modern country house, where he meets and instantly clashes with fellow guest Daniel da Silva. Effete, decadent, foreign, and all too obviously queer, the sophisticated poet is everything the straightforward British officer fears and distrusts.

As events unfold, Curtis realizes that Daniel has his own secret intentions. And there’s something else they share—a mounting sexual tension that leaves Curtis reeling.

And when the house party’s elegant facade cracks to reveal treachery, blackmail and murder, Curtis finds himself needing clever, dark-eyed Daniel as he has never needed a man before…]]> 239 K.J. Charles 0995799008 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 ebooks, read-women 4.17 2014 Think of England (England World, #2)
author: K.J. Charles
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/22
date added: 2025/03/15
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]]> The Buffalo Hunter Hunter 214565614 A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.]]> 448 Stephen Graham Jones 1668075083 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.30 2025 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
author: Stephen Graham Jones
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> Oblomov 254308 586 Ivan Goncharov 1933480092 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 maybe 4.09 1859 Oblomov
author: Ivan Goncharov
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1859
rating: 0
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]]> Sentimental Education 2183 460 Gustave Flaubert 0140447970 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.86 1869 Sentimental Education
author: Gustave Flaubert
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1869
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up]]> 18877989
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie's disappearance and followed the massive search for her, the long investigation, and the even longer trial. Over ten years, he earned the trust of her family and friends, won unique access to the Japanese detectives and Japan's convoluted legal system, and delved deep into the mind of the man accused of the crime, Joji Obara, described by the judge as "unprecedented and extremely evil."

The result is a book at once thrilling and revelatory, "In Cold Blood for our times" (Chris Cleave, author of Incendiary and Little Bee).

The People Who Eat Darkness is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012]]> 465 Richard Lloyd Parry 1466820020 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 nonfiction 3.81 2010 People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
author: Richard Lloyd Parry
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/13
date added: 2025/03/13
shelves: nonfiction
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]]> <![CDATA[A Lover's Discourse: Fragments]]> 380994 A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves.]]> 234 Roland Barthes 0374521611 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.43 1977 A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
author: Roland Barthes
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> دموع الرمل 202354998 144 شتيوي الغيثي 6038386661 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.56 دموع الرمل
author: شتيوي الغيثي
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.56
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]]> Crime and Punishment 21045225 'Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? . . . Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood . . .axe in hand? . . . Lord, will I really?'

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption.

Oliver Ready's new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before.]]> 702 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0141192801 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 4.43 1866 Crime and Punishment
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1866
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/03
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]]> <![CDATA[Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)]]> 1499952 Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen.]]> 249 Jean Webster رغْدُ العَيْش 3 classics, ebooks, read-women 4.12 1912 Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)
author: Jean Webster
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1912
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/03
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]]> Matilda 29437563
Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century.]]> 110 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0241251877 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 3.43 1959 Matilda
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.43
book published: 1959
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/22
date added: 2025/02/22
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]]> Burnt Sugar 52969580
Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds mother and daughter. Is Tara’s memory loss real? Are Antara’s memories fair? In vivid and visceral prose, Tibor Jones South Asia Prize–winning writer Avni Doshi tells a story, at once shocking and empathetic, about love and betrayal between a mother and a daughter. A journey into shifting memories, altering identities, and the subjective nature of truth, Burnt Sugar is a stunning and unforgettable debut.]]> 240 Avni Doshi 024144151X رغْدُ العَيْش 2 ebooks, read-women 3.25 2019 Burnt Sugar
author: Avni Doshi
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.25
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/11
date added: 2025/02/11
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]]> أنثى العنكبوت 10380625 207 قماشة العليان رغْدُ العَيْش 2 2.94 2000 أنثى العنكبوت
author: قماشة العليان
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 2.94
book published: 2000
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/09
date added: 2025/02/08
shelves: owned-and-read, read-women, قرئ-بالعربية
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence]]> 8130485 352 Gavin de Becker رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks, nonfiction 4.31 1997 The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
author: Gavin de Becker
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/03
date added: 2025/02/03
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]]> I Who Have Never Known Men 43208413 208 Jacqueline Harpman 1473570808 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks, read-women 4.20 1995 I Who Have Never Known Men
author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/23
date added: 2025/01/23
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]]> Betty 48564330 A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

"A girl comes of age against the knife."

So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence--both from outside the family, and also, devastatingly, from within. The lush landscape, rich with birdsong, wild fruit, and blazing stars, becomes a kind of refuge for Betty, but when her family's darkest secrets are brought to light, she has no choice but to reckon with the brutal history hiding in the hills, as well as the heart-wrenching cruelties and incredible characters she encounters in her rural town of Breathed, Ohio.

But despite the hardship she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters, and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all she bears witness to, Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write. She recounts the horrors of her family's past and present with pen and paper and buries them deep in the dirt--moments that has stung her so deeply, she could not tell them, until now.

Inspired by the life of her own mother, Tiffany McDaniel sets out to free the past by telling this heartbreaking yet magical story--a remarkable novel that establishes her as one of the freshest and most important voices in American fiction.]]> 480 Tiffany McDaniel 052565707X رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.41 2020 Betty
author: Tiffany McDaniel
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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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 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.12 2023 Monstrilio
author: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
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]]> Minor Detail 53575905 Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand.

Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.]]> 144 Adania Shibli رغْدُ العَيْش 2 ebooks, read-women 4.17 2017 Minor Detail
author: Adania Shibli
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2022/11/25
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> Carmilla 49849088
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s compelling tale of a young woman’s seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which it predates by over a quarter century. Carmilla was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.

Carmilla kicks Dracula’s ass. Alluring, macabre, oneiric—the novella unfolds in endlessly strange directions every time I revisit it. And at its core, a pair of indelible female characters, whose attraction to each other is so undeniable that the text itself seems unable to contain them. I can’t think of a better guide through this ethereal, infuriating book than Carmen Machado—whose Borgesian imagination unearths for us the possibilities buried in its pages.

—Jordan Hall, co-creator & writer of Carmilla: The Series]]> 141 J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1941360386 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.95 1872 Carmilla
author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 0
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]]> Heart of Stone 54770099
The man is quite unlike any secretary - or any man, for that matter - that Henry has ever met.

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'Heart of Stone' is a slowly unfolding period romance between a vampire and his inimitably devoted clerk: lushly depicted in flowing, lovingly appended prose, we follow the slow understanding these two men grasp of one another, and the cross of their two worlds into each other's.

Henry Coffey, immortal and ever-oscillating between periods of delighted focus upon his current passion project, is charming, witty, and seems utterly incapable of closing his mouth for more than a few moments; in contrast, Theophilus Essex is quiet and keenly focused, adopting an ever-flat affect, but as time goes on, he relaxes in his employer's presence.

Craving resounding intimacy but with an ever aware of the polite boundaries for their situation, Coffey and Essex perform a slow dance as they grow closer to one another, and find themselves entangled.]]> 296 Johannes T. Evans رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks 4.16 2020 Heart of Stone
author: Johannes T. Evans
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/10
date added: 2025/01/10
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]]> Despair 418209 Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann Karlovich, a man who undertakes the perfect crime - his own murder.]]> 212 Vladimir Nabokov 0679723439 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.92 1934 Despair
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1934
rating: 0
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]]> ميثاق النساء 206194628 هي روايةٌ عن الحرّية بمعناها الأكبر، وعن الأمومة كورطة وفرصة، وعن الحب الذي يتخطّى الحدود الجغرافية والدينية والثقافية.
حنين الصايغ شاعرة لبنانية من مواليد جبل لبنان. حاصلة على ماجستير في تعليم اللغة الإنجليزية من الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت وصدر لها ثلاث مجموعات شعرية.]]> 391 حنين الصايغ 9953897522 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.18 ميثاق النساء
author: حنين الصايغ
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West]]> 53328405 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'

At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's tragic death in 1941.

Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and glimpse into their extraordinary lives: from Vita's travels across the globe, to Virginia's parties with the Bloomsbury set; from their shared love of dogs and nature, to their grief at the beginning of the Second World War. Discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable.

WITH AN ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.]]> 280 Virginia Woolf 1784876720 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 4.54 1926 Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
author: Virginia Woolf
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.54
book published: 1926
rating: 0
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]]> The Bayou 56424673 "Eugene didn’t know if he believed in the devil beyond the wicked things people did of their own accord, but if the devil had a face, it would look like Johnny Walker’s."

Small-town Louisiana, 1935.

When Eugene was twelve, a girl from town disappeared. Everyone said the gators must have got her when she strayed too near the bayou. No foul play, just a terrible accident. But Eugene can't shake the conviction that Mary Beth's death had something to do with the man who used to haunt her—the man no one else could see.

Now, nearly two decades later, there are more dangerous things than gators in Chanlarivyè. People are disappearing again, and this time, no one can find the bodies. As the town's unease grows, charismatic fugitive Johnny Walker arrives on the scene, shedding bullet casings and stolen bank notes in his wake.

He tangles himself up in Eugene's life and awakens memories Eugene thought he had laid to rest years ago. Memories of the mysterious man who followed Eugene into his dreams, and memories of the bayou�

And of the horrifying entity that lurks beneath the water's surface, slowly seeping into the town like a stain.]]> 149 Arden Powell رغْدُ العَيْش 3 3.99 2021 The Bayou
author: Arden Powell
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year]]> 204982650 Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery fromNew York Timesbestselling author Ally Carter.

The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room three days before Christmas.

Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan

She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.

He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy.

She hates his guts.

He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.)

But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.

That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.

She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?

As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other. Because, this Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.

Assuming they don’t kill each other first.]]> 303 Ally Carter 0063276739 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks, read-women Cringe, but cute 4.11 2024 The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
author: Ally Carter
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/26
date added: 2024/12/26
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Cringe, but cute
]]> Viper Wine 23346864
Famed beauty Venetia Stanley is so extravagantly dazzling she has inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting, provoking adoration and emulation from the masses. Stampedes follow her arrival in town. But as she approaches middle age, the attention turns to scrutiny. Her adoring husband Sir Kenelm Digby � philosopher, alchemist and time-traveller � wishes she would age naturally, but Venetia discovers a potent and addictive elixir of youth, Viper Wine. Set on the eve of the English Civil War, and based on a true story, this brilliant novel asks a very contemporary what is the cost of beauty?

'Dazzling' Observer

'Intoxicating' Independent on Sunday

'Wickedly funny' The Times]]> 448 Hermione Eyre 0099581663 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 owned-and-read, read-women 3.42 2014 Viper Wine
author: Hermione Eyre
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/25
date added: 2024/12/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"]]> 391281 Murder Was the Least of His Crimes�

The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs�

From Harold Schechter, “America's principle chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers� (The Boston Book Review), comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, whose ghoulish crimes stunned an unsuspecting nation.

The year is 1957. Photographs would show him across the country: a slight, Midwestern man with a twisted little smile, a man who had lived for ten years in his own world of murder and depravity.

Here is the grisly true story of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho”—the mild-mannered farmhand bound to his domineering mother, driven into a series of gruesome and bizarre acts beyond all imagining. In chilling detail, Deviant explores the incredible career of one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of American crime—and how he turned a small Wisconsin farmhouse into his own private playground of ghoulishness and blood.

From the Heartland of America comes a true story more horrifying than any movie or novel…Harold Schechter's acclaimed true-crime chronicle�

DEVIANT]]> 242 Harold Schechter 0671025465 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks, nonfiction 3.91 1989 Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
author: Harold Schechter
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/18
date added: 2024/12/18
shelves: ebooks, nonfiction
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]]> The Emperor of Gladness 219848315 Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuong’s writing � formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness � are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.]]> 416 Ocean Vuong 059383187X رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.35 2025 The Emperor of Gladness
author: Ocean Vuong
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> حكواتي الليل 10368731 كانت تلك اللحظة حاسمة في مسيرة رفيق شامي الأدبية. بعد تفكير دام ثلاثة أيام أبلغ الناشر أنه يرفض هذا التنقيح وأنه لا يريد تغيير سطر من أسطر الكتاب وكانت المفاجأة أجابه الناشر أنه عندما قرأ اقتراحات المحقق قال له: لن يقبل بهكذا مسخ لرواية أي كاتب يحترم نفسه. لذلك قرر أن يوكل رجلاً آخر بتدقيق لغة النص فقط والحفاظ عليها كما رواها رفيق شامي. وهكذا كان.
صدر هذا الكتاب في تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 1989م وبيع منه خلال السنة الأولى 200 ألف نسخة وبيعت حقوق الترجمة لـ 22 لغة. وبعد ثلاث سنوات حصد الكتاب ست جوائز أدبية وتجاوزت طبعاته حتى اليوم المليوني نسخة.]]> 256 Rafik Schami 9933352083 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.81 1989 حكواتي الليل
author: Rafik Schami
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> Wolf in Winter 22946028 448 John Connolly 1444755366 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 owned-and-read
There was a lot of interesting characters that i couldn't keep track of all of them, it's clear that some are new and others are reoccurring ones. loved the plot surrounding the small town with supernatural elements. obviously, reading this book before the previous ones took a lot of the enjoyment and appreciation i might experience with the story; however, it was still an entertaining read that reflects Connolly's excellent craft.]]> 4.12 2014 Wolf in Winter
author: John Connolly
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/09
date added: 2024/12/09
shelves: owned-and-read
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It wasn't the wisest decision to start the series with book #12, but it was already in my possession so i thought why not.

There was a lot of interesting characters that i couldn't keep track of all of them, it's clear that some are new and others are reoccurring ones. loved the plot surrounding the small town with supernatural elements. obviously, reading this book before the previous ones took a lot of the enjoyment and appreciation i might experience with the story; however, it was still an entertaining read that reflects Connolly's excellent craft.
]]> <![CDATA[The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession]]> 209363566 One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.

In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.

This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.]]> 224 Michael Finkel 1984898450 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.04 2023 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
author: Michael Finkel
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World]]> 53054943 The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.

In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.]]> 320 Vincent Bevins 1541742400 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.62 2020 The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
author: Vincent Bevins
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/22
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]]> <![CDATA[Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative]]> 215063144 From the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative.

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
One of Dazed 's Best Books of 2024

Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what seems a turning point in the narrative of human history.

Profound and moving, Hammad writes from within the moment, shedding light on the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Recognizing the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis by one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and a foremost writer of fiction in the world today.]]> 92 Isabella Hammad 1039057608 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 4.50 2024 Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
author: Isabella Hammad
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/20
date added: 2024/11/20
shelves: ebooks, nonfiction, read-women
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]]> American Psycho 28676 American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.]]> 399 Bret Easton Ellis 0679735771 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.82 1991 American Psycho
author: Bret Easton Ellis
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> Psycho 927266
Her room was musty buy clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a little odd....
]]> 224 Robert Bloch 0812519329 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 classics, ebooks 3.97 1959 Psycho
author: Robert Bloch
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1959
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/19
date added: 2024/11/19
shelves: classics, ebooks
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]]> غرق الحضارات 53166257
منذ أكثر من نصف قرن، يتأمل المؤلف العالم ويجوب أرجاءه. كان موجوداً في سايغون عندما وضعت حرب فيتنام أوزارها، وفِي طهران عندما اندلعت الثورة الإسلامية. وفي هذه الدراسة الثاقبة والمسهبة، إنه المشاهد المهتم بالمجريات والأحداث والمفكر على السواء، يمزج بين سرد الوقائع وعرض الطروحات، فيروي أحياناً أحداثاً بارزة كان أحد الشهود العيان القلائل عليها، ثم يرتقي إلى مصاف المؤرخ متجاوزاً تجربته الشخصية ليوضح لنا أسباب الانحرافات المتعاقبة التي شهدتها البشرية حتى بلغت شفير هذا الانهيار.

فيقول إن “الظلما� بدأت تنتشر انطلاقاً من أرضي الأم� قبل أن يتطرق إلى اندثار مشرق التعددية والهزات المتتالية التي ألمّت بالعالم العربي الإسلامي وانتشرت انعكاساتها اللاحقة شيئاً فشيئاً في كل أرجاء العالم. كما يطرح المؤلف فرضية جديدة عن “انقلا� كبير� أدى إلى تحولات جذرية في المجتمعات البشرية كافة بحيث أصبحنا الآن ورثتها المفزوعين. ويختتم دراسته بالقول إنه لا بد من حدوث صحوة؛ فسفينة العالم لا يمكنها الاستمرار في إبحارها نحو هلاكها.]]> 319 Amin Maalouf رغْدُ العَيْش 0 4.00 2019 غرق الحضارات
author: Amin Maalouf
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/17
date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: nonfiction, owned-and-read, قرئ-بالعربية
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]]> Tokyo Express 59238510 A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery.

'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime...

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.]]> 150 Seichō Matsumoto 0241439078 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 3.75 1958 Tokyo Express
author: Seichō Matsumoto
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1958
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: ebooks, short-stories-novellas, dnf
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]]> ذكريات ضالة 111581623 224 عبد الله البصيص 9953687269 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 owned-and-read, قرئ-بالعربية 3.93 2014 ذكريات ضالة
author: عبد الله البصيص
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2020/05/22
date added: 2024/11/14
shelves: owned-and-read, قرئ-بالعربية
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]]> طعم الذئب 111581713 "ستحين الراحة بعد قليل".

يتنهد، يأخذ نظرةً شاملةً مُديراً عينيه بتمهل.. وجهه مكدود بنحو لم يخبَرْهُ على وجهٍ من قبل.. شاخت ملامحه.. شاخت.. يبدو لنفسه أنه أكبر من ثلاثين سنةً بكثير، يتمتم مستغرباً:

"ثلاثة أيام فعلت كل هذا!".

الجزءُ الصعبُ من رحلته انتهى، في القرية سيعرف كيف يصل بعدما يأكلُ وينام. يجب أن يأكلَ وينامَ أولاً حتى يصفو ذهنه من ظلال الأهوال التي مرّ بها في الأيام الثلاثة الفائتة ليكون عزمُه أقربَ إلى الرشد.

"انتهى العذاب، سيذهب هذا الطَعْمُ غدً أو بعد غدٍ، كأنّني لم آكله أصلًا، انتهى.. انتهى".]]> 221 عبد الله البصيص 9953688125 رغْدُ العَيْش 5 owned-and-read, قرئ-بالعربية 3.90 2016 طعم الذئب
author: عبد الله البصيص
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2018/06/04
date added: 2024/11/14
shelves: owned-and-read, قرئ-بالعربية
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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 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.67 2023 The Unworthy
author: Agustina Bazterrica
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2023
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]]> لماذا تركت الحصان وحيدا 3018265 "في هذه المجموعة الجديدة على المشهد الشعري العربي بأسره يذهب محمود درويش نحو السيرة: سيرة المكان حين تحتويه الجغرافيا لكى ينبس فيه التاريخ، وسيرة مواقع المكان حين تنقلب إلى محطات للجسد وعلامات للروح، وتصنع - بالتالي - صيغة ملحمية فريدة لسيرة ذاتية كثيفة تتحرك في فضاء، وتمسح الزمان من ارتفاع عين الطير، ثم يختصر عناصرها في رحلة ارتداد نحو قطب صانع ومشارك وضامن هو آدمي تراجيدي، ولكنه ... شاعر في يده غيمة. وللمرء أن يستذكر، هنا تحديدًاأن ماكتبه إدوارد سعيد عن محمود درويش: ((الشعر عند درويش لايقتصر على تأمين أداة للوصول إلى رؤية غير عادية، أو إلى كون قصي من نظام متعارف عليه، بل هو تلاحم عسير للشعر وللذاكرة الجمعية، ولضغط كل منهما على الآخر)).
صبحي حديدي]]> 171 Mahmoud Darwish 185513263X رغْدُ العَيْش 2 3.99 1999 لماذا تركت الحصان وحيدا
author: Mahmoud Darwish
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1999
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/08
date added: 2024/11/07
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]]> <![CDATA[The Menendez Murders, Updated Edition: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation]]> 213814574 Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the disquieting true story behind Netflix’s The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success.But it was all a façade.

The Menendez saga has captivated the American public since 1989. The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quietSundayevening in Beverly Hills didn’t make the cover of People magazine until the arrest of their sonsseven months later, when the case developed an intense cult following. By the time the first Menendez trial began in July 1993, the public was convinced that Lyle and Erik were a pair of greedy rich kids who had killed loving, devoted parents.

The real story remained buried beneath years of dark secrets.

A culmination of more than 30 years of journalist Robert Rand’s relentless reporting, this updated edition of The Menendez Murders shares these intimate, breakthrough findings, including a deeply disturbing history of child abuse and sexual molestation in the Menendez family going back generations, as well as exclusive new revelations linking the 1980s boy band Menudo and the Menendez family, a first-hand account of the emotional reunion between Erik and Lyle Menendez, and surprising insights into how the Menendez brothers remain resilient and live with purpose despite a life sentence without parole.

Rand has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and is the only reporter who covered the original investigation as well as both trials. With a unique vantage and unparalleled access to the Menendez family and their history, including interviews with both brothers before and after their arrest, Rand has uncovered extraordinary details that would certainly have changed the fate of the brothers� first-degree murder conviction in 1996. Today, his discoveries give the brothers new hope for reopening the case.]]> 376 Robert Rand 1637746504 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.44 The Menendez Murders, Updated Edition: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation]]> 36478323 Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary source material for NBC'sLaw and Order True The Menendez Murders. A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success.But it was all a façade. The Menendez saga has captivated the American public since 1989. The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quietSundayevening in Beverly Hills didn't make the cover ofPeoplemagazine until the arrest of their sonsseven months later, and the case developed an intense cult following. When the first Menendez trial began in July 1993, the public was convinced that Lyle and Erik were a pair of greedy rich kids who had killed loving, devoted parents. But the real story remained buried beneath years of dark secrets.Until now. Journalist Robert Rand, who originally reported on the case for theMiami HeraldandPlayboy, has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and has continued investigating and interviewing key sources for 28 years. Rand is the only reporter who covered the original investigation as well as both trials. With unparalleled access to the Menendez family and their history, including interviews with both brothers before and after their arrest, Rand has uncovered extraordinary details that certainly would have changed the fate of the brothers' first-degree murder conviction and sentencing to life without parole. InThe Menendez The Shocking Untold Story of the Menedez Family and the Killings That Stunned the Nation,Rand shares these intimate, never-before-revealed findings, including a deeply disturbing history of child abuse and sexual molestation in the Menendez family going back generations, and the shocking admission O.J. Simpson made to one of the Menendez brothers when they were inmates at the L.A. County Men's Central Jail.]]> 376 Robert Rand 1946885274 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks, nonfiction 4.16 2018 The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation
author: Robert Rand
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/06
date added: 2024/11/06
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]]> دلشاد: سيرة الجوع والشبع 57328837 رواية تشعرك بوخز الجوع في كلماتها، تتحسس جسدك الذي بدأ يضمر وينهلّ بحثا عن لقمة هنا ولقمة هناك، عن الغياب الذي يأخذ شخوص الرواية نحو الموت أحيانا أو نحو حياة أخرى وتجربة جوع آخر.
أكاد أرى وجه دلشاد الضاحك من الألم والفقد والجوع والضياع، أكاد أبحث معه عما يسكت فيه ذلك الفم الجائع.
هذه الرواية، الحياة، هذه اللعبة الخطيرة ما إن تبدأ حتى يجرفك سيل مآسيها لتبكي وتضحك وتشم روائح الموت والفقر، ثم تترك التيار يأخذك إلى دروب يرسمها القدر لشخصياتها.]]> 494 بشرى خلفان 9921723774 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 4.17 2021 دلشاد: سيرة الجوع والشبع
author: بشرى خلفان
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/05
date added: 2024/11/06
shelves: ebooks, read-women, قرئ-بالعربية
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]]> Piranesi 50202953
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.]]> 272 Susanna Clarke 163557563X رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.22 2020 Piranesi
author: Susanna Clarke
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)]]> 75505273
The earl and the smuggler should be natural enemies, but cocksure, enragingly competent Luke is a trained secretary and expert schemer—exactly the sort of man Rufus needs by his side. Before long, Luke becomes an unexpected ally...and the lover Rufus had never hoped to find.

But Luke came to Stone Manor with an ulterior motive, one he's desperate to keep hidden even from the lord he can't resist. As the lies accumulate and family secrets threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, master and man find themselves forced to decide whose side they're really on...and what they're willing to do for love.]]> 336 K.J. Charles 1728255902 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 ebooks, read-women 4.24 2023 A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
author: K.J. Charles
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2024/09/28
date added: 2024/11/02
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]]> Simple Passion 63238300 48 Annie Ernaux 1804270555 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 4.15 1991 Simple Passion
author: Annie Ernaux
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1991
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/28
date added: 2024/10/28
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]]> The Memory Police 50349968 A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.

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 1101911816 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 owned-and-read, read-women 3.84 1994 The Memory Police
author: Yōko Ogawa
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1994
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/26
date added: 2024/10/27
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]]> بطل من هذا الزمان 13455908
وتعتبر رواية "بطل من هذا الزمان"، وهي الرواية الوحيدة التي أنهى كتابتها، تحفةً أدبيّة رائعة يفخر بها الأدب الروسي.

رواية "بطل من هذا الزمان" تتضمّن أربع قصص صغيرة بطلها بتشورين الذي يعاني من الإستياء الشديد من محيطه؛ يتعرّف القارئ إلى الجزء الخارجي من شخصيّة بتشورين عن طريق الوصف، وإلى الجزء الداخلي والنفسي من خلال ما يكتبه بطل القصّة في يوميّاته.

تكمن أهميّة الكتاب في ما يتضمّنه من تحليل نفسي لبطل الرواية الذي يمثّل نموذجاً حقيقياً للشباب الرومنسي المعذّب الذي يستقيظ على خيبات الأمل في ظلّ حكم الإمبراطورية الروسية، إضافةً إلى ما يقدّمه من وصف للحياة اليوميّة للشعب الروسي في ذلك العصر.

وإذا استعدنا بعض ما كتبه ليرمنتوف عن بطل روايته نقرأ: "لا يقدّم كتاب "بطل من هذا الزمان" وصفاً لشخصيّة بطل القصّة فحسب، بل تجسيد لكلّ ما يعاني منه شباب العصر من رذائل في أوج تفاعلاتها".]]> 234 Mikhail Lermontov 9953684979 رغْدُ العَيْش 5 4.04 1839 بطل من هذا الزمان
author: Mikhail Lermontov
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1839
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/21
date added: 2024/10/21
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing]]> 58949461 Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter

In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.� Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language� and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women’s truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others.

Here is a subtle yet candid book by “one of the great novelists of our time� about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins.]]> 160 Elena Ferrante 1609457382 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 3.77 2021 In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
author: Elena Ferrante
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> دفاتر الوراق 55016604 ‎ل� أحبّ ديدان الأرض حيث الظلمة والرطوبة تهب وجعاً إضافيّاً للموت، لهذا منحت جسدي للماء سرّ ‏الإنصا� الأبديّ، والحضن الّذي لا تغلق ذراعاه، لم أكتب وصيّتي، فليس هناك من وصايا للّذين خذلوا في ‏حياته� سوى أن يتمنّوا أن يبادر أحدٌ ليدوزن الوتر النشاز، وليس لي وصايا لأقولها، فأنا محض ريشة دوريّ ‏علق� في هواء لم يسكن ولو لحظةٌ واحدة.� �
� حينها كان يمكنني أن أحط على شجرة وأشاهد كيف تنضج حبّة كمَثرى على صدر أمّها، أو أحط على كتف ‏رج� ذاهب للقاء امرأةٍ قطع عهداً على قلبه أن يحبّها كما يحبّ الطائر جناحيه بينما يخفق ماراً فوق شارع ‏يكاب� عابروه الزحام.� �
� أنا محض امرأةٍ خُذلَت في حياتها وجاءت إلى تفكر بالإعتزال كما يعتزل عازف شهير في أوج نبوغه لخلل ‏يستشعر� قادماً لا محالة، لا وصايا لي سوى هذه الكلمات فأحرقوا هذه الورقة وانثروها هنا لعلّها تصير شاهدةً ‏جوّالة� تشير إِليّ.� �

� �"جلال برجس" روائيّ أردنيّ، حصلت روايته (أفاعي النار / حكاية العاشق عليّ بن محمود القصاد) على ‏جائز� كتارا للرواية العربيّة، 2015؛ وحصلت روايته (مقصلة الحالم) على جائزة رفقة دودين للإبداع ‏السرديّ� 2014؛ وحصلت مجموعته القصصيّة (الزلزال) على جائزة روكس بن زائد العزيزي، 2012؛ ‏ووصل� روايته (سيّدات الحواسّ الخمس) إلى القائمة الطويلة للجائزة العالميّة للرواية العربيّة (بوكر)، ‏�2019.� �

� صدر له: (حكايات المقهى العتيق)، رواية مشتركة، 2019؛ (كأيّ غصنٍ على شجر)، شعر، 2008؛ (قمر ‏بل� منازل)، شعر، 2011.‏]]> 366 جلال برجس Jalal barjas 6144861408 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 owned-and-read, قرئ-بالعربية 3.76 2020 دفاتر الوراق
author: جلال برجس Jalal barjas
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/10/17
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]]> <![CDATA[حياتي كما عشتها: ذكريات امرأة سعودية من عنيزة إلى كاليفورنيا]]> 217956623 وتقول المؤلفة: «لم أصادف في حياتي شيئًا يخصني حظيَ بإجماع أصدقائي وزملائي شبيهًا بالإلحاح عليَّ لتدوين تجربتي في الحياة، التي رأوا فيها - مشكورين - ما يستحق أن يُروى، عساه أن يكون ملهمًا لأجيال جديدة من نساء شبه الجزيرة العربية. فقد خضت وبنات جيلي المعارك تلو المعارك لأجل حقوق تُعَد اليوم بديهية، ضد ثقافة مجتمعية تتكئ على تفسيرات معينة للنصوص الدينية، وهو ما وقف سدًّا منيعًا أمام تعليم المرأة وعملها وانخراطها في الحياة العامة بمجتمعها.
عرضت ما جرى في حياتي كما جرى، وفي مناطق أدعي أن غيري كان سيفكر عشرات المرات قبل أن يخوض فيها، وجاهدت أن يكون منسوب الصراحة في أعلى معدلاته في هذا الكتاب. عرضت ذاتي كما هي من دون تجميل أو «رتوش». وربما السر وراء تلك الصراحة النسبية أنني عالِمة، وتلح عليَّ دومًا فكرة الموضوعية حتى ضد ذاتي ما استطعت إلى ذلك سبيلًا، وعلى الرغم من أن التجربة شخصية، فإن فيها تداخلًا مع التغيير الاجتماعي في المملكة من خلال شخصي وعائلتي وربما جيلي كله».

عن المؤلفة
تُعَد الدكتورة ثريا بنت محمد السليمان البراهيم التركي أول سعودية تتخصص في الأنثروبولوجيا، ومن أوائل السعوديات اللواتي حصلن على شهادة الدكتوراه.
وللعالِمة - المعتزة دائمًا بأنها ابنة نجد والحجاز والفخورة بعروبتها - العديد من الدراسات الرصينة المهمة، كما أنها درَّست في جامعات هارفارد وكاليفورنيا وجورج تاون وبنسلفانيا، وجامعة الملك عبد العزيز وجامعة الرياض، والجامعة الأمريكية في القاهرة.]]> 248 ثريا التركي 9778727392 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.27 2024 حياتي كما عشتها: ذكريات امرأة سعودية من عنيزة إلى كاليفورنيا
author: ثريا التركي
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2024
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]]> <![CDATA[The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist]]> 57957982 2. Myth, legend, fable, and fairy tale
3. Myth, religion, and ritual
4. Myth and science
5. The history of myth and mythology
6. Myth, metaphor, and allegory
7. Plato’s myths
8. Magic
9. Heroes
10. Monsters
11. Misogyny
12. Myth in the modern world Part 12 Myths Decoded 13. Echo and Narcissus
14. Eros and Psyche
15. Seers and Teiresias, Cassandra, and Laocoön
16. Chiron, the wounded healer
17. Pygmalion, the passionate artist
18. Prometheus, the fallen rebel
19. Orpheus and Eurydice
20. Mother Demeter and Persephone
21. Perseus and Medusa
22. Theseus and the Minotaur
23. Dionysus, the twice-born liberator
24. Plato’s Myth of Er]]> 206 Neel Burton 191326016X رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.73 2021 The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist
author: Neel Burton
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2021
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]]> A Long Time Dead 85682793 Samara Breger's A Long Time Dead is a lush, Victorian romance, drenched in blood and drama, about the lengths two women will go to secure a love that cannot die.

Somewhere foggy, 1837 . . .

Poppy had always loved the night, which is why it wasn’t too much of a bother to wake one evening in an unfamiliar home far from London, weak and confused and plagued with a terrible thirst for blood, to learn that she could no longer step out into the day. And while vampirism presented several disadvantages, it more than made up for those in its benefits: immortality, a body that could run at speed for hours without tiring, the thrill of becoming a predator, the thing that pulls rabbits from bushes and tears through their fur and flesh with the sharp point of a white fang.

And, of course, Roisin. The mysterious woman who has lived for centuries, who held Poppy through her painful transformation, and who, for some reason, is now teaching her how to adjust to her new, endless life. A tight, lonely, buttoned-up woman, with kindness and care, pressed up behind her teeth. The time they spend together is as transformative to Poppy as the changes in her body, and soon, she finds herself hopelessly, overwhelmingly attached. But Roisin has secrets of her own, and can’t make any promises; not when vengeance must be served.

Soon, their little world explodes. Together and apart, they encounter scores of vampires, shifty pirates, conniving opera singers, ancient nobles, glamorous French women, and a found family that throws a very particular sort of party. But overhead, threat looms—one woman who is capable of destroying everything Poppy and Roisin hold dear.]]> 412 Samara Breger 1612942652 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 maybe 3.73 2023 A Long Time Dead
author: Samara Breger
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2023
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]]> Villette 14622419 Alternate cover editions can be found here , here and here.

With an introduction and notes by Dr. Sally Minogur, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church, University College

Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.

Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman's right to love and be loved.]]> 472 Charlotte Brontë رغْدُ العَيْش 0 3.51 1853 Villette
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1853
rating: 0
read at: 2024/10/05
date added: 2024/10/05
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]]> <![CDATA[رحم العالم: أمومة عابرة للحدود]]> 219144195 حصريا من كتب العالم ، شاهد متجرنا لمزيد من الكتب العربية وأحدث الإصدارات في مختلف المجالات ، تصفح الصور لمعرفة المزيد عن الكتاب ، نوفر الكتب الأصلية للحفاظ على حق المؤلف والناشر والقارئ ، هدايا مجانية مع كل كتاب ، ابحث عن كتابتك باللغة العربية ، الرابط المباشر للمتجر

]]> 244 شيرين أبو النجا رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.43 رحم العالم: أمومة عابرة للحدود
author: شيرين أبو النجا
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[بخور الآلهة: دراسة في الطب والسحر والأسطورة والدين]]> 10766797 هذا الكتاب، وهو في الأساس أطروحة دكتوراه تقدم بها الباحث "خزعل الماجدي" إلى معهد التاريخ العربي والتراث العلمي للدراسات العليا، هو محاولة لفحص التلازم بين الطب والسحر والعرافة والأسطورة والدين في تراث وادي الرافدين (سومر، أكد، بابل، آشور)، وقد آثر بعد حصوله على شهادة الدكتوراه أن يعد هذه الأطروحة ككتاب يتناسب مع إمكانية تقديمه سلساً للقراء، ولذلك لين الجانب الأكاديمي وجعله أكثر استساغة لمقتضيات القراءة الممتعة فوضع ما يتناسب من التعديلات ووسع الفصل الأول الخاص بالمقدمة العامة للسحر والأسطورة والدين والعلم وجعله فصلاً يصلح أن يكون كتاباً قائماً بذاته لهذه الحقول بغض النظر عن زمانها ومكانها. كذلك أضاف ما يستحق في الفصل الأخير المخصص لنظرة العلوم الحديثة لهذه الحقول حتى بدا هذا الفصل أيضاً وكأنه كتاب منفصل تطل من خلاله العلوم النفسية (السايكولوجية والباراسيكولوجية)، والعلوم الطبيعية (الكوانتية والنسبية والكلانية) إلى السحر والعرافة والأسطورة والدين، وتفسرها إما من خلال قوى تصادمية بين الإنسان والكون كما في علوم الباراسيكولوجية، أو من خلال قوى غامرة يموج بها الكون ويشمل بها الإنسان باعتباره عقدة أو ندبة طاقوية كما في العلوم الطبيعية.]]> 505 خزعل الماجدي 6589094950 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.92 1998 بخور الآلهة: دراسة في الطب والسحر والأسطورة والدين
author: خزعل الماجدي
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Education of a British-Protected Child]]> 22568188
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and subtle voice is ever-present in these seventeen, beautifully nuanced pieces. The Education of a British-Protected Child offers a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria. Achebe recalls both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of imperial rule. In “African-American Visitations,� he allows us to witness the terrifying nature of the African diaspora and what it means not to know “from whence he came.� Politics and history figure in “What is Nigeria to Me?,� “Africa’s Tarnished Name,� and “Politics of the Politicians of Language.� And Achebe’s extraordinary family comes into view in “My Dad and Me� and “My Daughters.�

Charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and immensely wise, The Education of a British-Protected Child is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.]]> 193 Chinua Achebe 0307372677 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 ebooks, nonfiction 0.0 2009 The Education of a British-Protected Child
author: Chinua Achebe
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at: 2024/10/01
date added: 2024/10/01
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]]> <![CDATA[The Darkest Part of the Forest]]> 24915157
Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries� seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.

At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.

Until one day, he does�

As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?]]> 221 Holly Black رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks, read-women 3.55 2015 The Darkest Part of the Forest
author: Holly Black
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2015/02/24
date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: ebooks, read-women
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]]> <![CDATA[Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations]]> 54369491
In this generous collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- the author Barack Obama called a "national treasure" talks with a wide variety of people, from Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Bill Moyers to obscure bloggers. She details not only her writing life and her influences, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family.]]> 192 Toni Morrison رغْدُ العَيْش 3 4.16 2020 Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
author: Toni Morrison
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2020/11/14
date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: ebooks, nonfiction, read-women
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shattered Gates (Rifter #1)]]> 10428720 110 Ginn Hale 1935560018 رغْدُ العَيْش 1 ebooks, read-women 3.78 2011 The Shattered Gates (Rifter #1)
author: Ginn Hale
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2011
rating: 1
read at: 2016/06/02
date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: ebooks, read-women
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]]> <![CDATA[Wonders of the Invisible World]]> 25027256 The captivating Stonewall Honor-winning novel of love, family, and ghosts of the past

Aidan Lockwood lives in a sleepy farming town, day after unremarkable day. But when Jarrod, his former best friend, suddenly moves back home, Aidan begins to see clearly for the first time—not only to feelings that go beyond mere friendship, but to a world that is haunted by the stories of his past. Visions from this invisible world come to him a great-grandfather on the field of battle; his own father, stumbling upon an unspeakable tragedy; and a mysterious young boy, whose whispered words may be at the heart of the curse that holds Aidan’s family in its grip.
Now, Aidan must find his way between the past and the present to protect those he loves, and to keep the invisible world at bay.


Stonewall Honor Winner

� “The unpredictability of curses, magic, and love are inexorably entwined in this gracefully written story.� �Publishers Weekly, Starred

“The complexity of the pairing of real and the unreal . . . is striking, and rather haunting.� —Tor.com

“A wonder itself—a coming-of-age, coming-out, and crossing-into-the-mystic novel all rolled into one.� —Tom McNeal, National Book Award finalist for Far Far Away

“Brilliant storytelling that unearths new intersections of love and magic.� —Scott Westerfeld, bestselling author of Uglies and Zeroes

 “If you don’t want a book with magic, mystery, lying parents, ancient curses, and true, true love (plus wonderful writing), then I’m not sure I care to know you. But if you do, then Wonders of the Invisible World is the book you’ve been waiting for.� —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club



From the Hardcover edition.]]> 352 Christopher Barzak 0385392818 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks 3.92 2015 Wonders of the Invisible World
author: Christopher Barzak
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2016/09/19
date added: 2024/09/28
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]]> Icarus 36486360 230 Adam Wing 1773702432 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.30 Icarus
author: Adam Wing
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.30
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicker King (The Wicker King, #1)]]> 35485816 The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness.

Jack once saved August's life � now can August save him?

August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team—but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With their parents� unreliable behavior, August decides to help Jack the way he always has—on his own. He accepts the visions as reality, even when Jack leads them on a quest to fulfill a dark prophecy.

August and Jack alienate everyone around them as they struggle with their sanity, free falling into the surreal fantasy world that feels made for them. In the end, each one must choose his own truth.

Written in vivid micro-fiction with a stream-of-consciousness feel and multimedia elements, K. Ancrum's The Wicker King touches on themes of mental health and explores a codependent relationship fraught with tension, madness and love.

An Imprint Book

]]> 309 K. Ancrum رغْدُ العَيْش 3 read-women, ebooks 4.00 2017 The Wicker King (The Wicker King, #1)
author: K. Ancrum
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2018/09/04
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: read-women, ebooks
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]]> Empty 50209442
For almost thirty years, Susan Burton has hidden her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence.

When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But she hadn't escaped unscathed, and in the fallout from her parents' breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from "peculiarity to pathology." She entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success—she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse—she'd binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again—and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to "quit food."

This is the story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret.]]> 304 Susan Burton 0679644040 رغْدُ العَيْش 0
im interested in reading books about food/eating and seeing other people's relationship with food and the way it's connected with their life. however, from the beginning i was hesitant about Empty and i wasn't feeling it for the sole reason that the author is white. i should've known better, that none of her experiences and anecdotes will resonate with me, nor will i understand and empathy with her struggles. not only that, but i found the book is poorly constructed, there is no clear pattern to the book, it's just composed of similar stories from her adolescent years organised under different titles to the point that it got redundant.

i honestly do not see myself in any stage of my life appreciating this book nor enjoying it. on the other hand, i'm glad i decided to pick up, because now i know what kind of memoirs i will be seeking in the future and the ones that i'll stay away from.]]> 3.91 2020 Empty
author: Susan Burton
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2021/06/12
date added: 2024/09/28
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i've been reading--or better yet--pushing myself to read this book for approximately two weeks now.

im interested in reading books about food/eating and seeing other people's relationship with food and the way it's connected with their life. however, from the beginning i was hesitant about Empty and i wasn't feeling it for the sole reason that the author is white. i should've known better, that none of her experiences and anecdotes will resonate with me, nor will i understand and empathy with her struggles. not only that, but i found the book is poorly constructed, there is no clear pattern to the book, it's just composed of similar stories from her adolescent years organised under different titles to the point that it got redundant.

i honestly do not see myself in any stage of my life appreciating this book nor enjoying it. on the other hand, i'm glad i decided to pick up, because now i know what kind of memoirs i will be seeking in the future and the ones that i'll stay away from.
]]> Men Explain Things to Me 22124901 Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the booksMen Explain Things to MeandHope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities;The Faraway Nearby;A Paradise Built in The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster;A Field Guide to Getting Lost; A History of Walking; andRiver of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West(for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.]]> 130 Rebecca Solnit 1608464571 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 3.89 2014 Men Explain Things to Me
author: Rebecca Solnit
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2016/12/18
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: ebooks, read-women, nonfiction
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]]> A Field Guide to Getting Lost 8390317 Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.]]> 224 Rebecca Solnit 1101118717 رغْدُ العَيْش 2 3.83 2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost
author: Rebecca Solnit
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2005
rating: 2
read at: 2018/01/16
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: ebooks, read-women, nonfiction
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]]> I Await the Devil's Coming 18165296 I Await the Devil’s Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten.

In the early 20th century, MacLane’s name was synonymous with sexuality; she is widely hailed as being one of the earliest American feminist authors, and critics at the time praised her work for its daringly open and confessional style. In its first month of publication, the book sold 100,000 copies � a remarkable number for a debut author, and one that illustrates MacLane’s broad appeal.

Now, with a new foreward written by critic Jessa Crispin, I Await The Devil’s Coming stands poised to renew its reputation as one of America’s earliest and most powerful accounts of feminist thought and creativity.]]> 304 Mary MacLane 1612191959 رغْدُ العَيْش 2 3.14 1902 I Await the Devil's Coming
author: Mary MacLane
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.14
book published: 1902
rating: 2
read at: 2024/07/23
date added: 2024/09/28
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]]> <![CDATA[A Simple Heart (The Art of the Novella)]]> 19180466 96 Gustave Flaubert 1612190820 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 3.76 1877 A Simple Heart (The Art of the Novella)
author: Gustave Flaubert
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1877
rating: 4
read at: 2018/07/08
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: classics, ebooks, short-stories-novellas
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]]> Magdalene: Poems 34224130 Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape� hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to the news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of Magdalene yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is a woman striving to be the subject of her own life, fully human and alive to the sacred in the mortal world.


FROM “BEFORE THE BEGINNING�

Was I ever virgin?


Did someone touch me before I could speak?

Who had me before I knew I was an I?


So that I wanted that touch again and again

Without knowing why or who or from whence it came?]]> 96 Marie Howe 0393285316 رغْدُ العَيْش 2 ebooks, poetry, read-women 4.03 2017 Magdalene: Poems
author: Marie Howe
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2021/02/19
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: ebooks, poetry, read-women
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragon Haven (Rain Wilds Chronicles #2)]]> 8305126 526 Robin Hobb 0061993484 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks, read-women 4.28 2010 Dragon Haven (Rain Wilds Chronicles #2)
author: Robin Hobb
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2015/05/05
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: ebooks, read-women
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]]> Guapa 25739241 A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East

Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother—the woman who raised him—catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, Rasa roams the city’s slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country’s elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. As Rasa confronts the simultaneous collapse of political hope and his closest personal relationships, he is forced to discover the roots of his alienation and try to re-emerge into a society that may never accept him.]]> 368 Saleem Haddad 1590517695 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks 4.11 2016 Guapa
author: Saleem Haddad
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/14
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: ebooks
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]]> الأجنحة المتكسرة 3112545 112 Kahlil Gibran 9775383722 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 3.65 1912 الأجنحة المتكسرة
author: Kahlil Gibran
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1912
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/15
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: classics, قرئ-بالعربية, short-stories-novellas, owned-and-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)]]> 25360188
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.]]> 176 Ta-Nehisi Coates 0679645985 رغْدُ العَيْش 2 ebooks, nonfiction 4.46 2015 Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)
author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2020/11/18
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: ebooks, nonfiction
review:

]]> The Love Interest 32470629 A thrilling YA debut about teen spies disguised as "love interests"--whoever gets the girl lives; but the one she rejects, dies.

There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets.

Caden is a Nice: The boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection.
Dylan is a Bad: The brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome.

The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her. Will she choose a Nice or the Bad?

Both Caden and Dylan are living in the outside world for the first time. They are well-trained and at the top of their games. They have to be - whoever the girl doesn't choose will die.

What the boys don't expect are feelings that are outside of their training. Feelings that could kill them both.

From debut author Cale Dietrich comes a fast-paced adventure that is full of both action and romance and subverts common tropes.]]> 384 Cale Dietrich 1250107121 رغْدُ العَيْش 1 ebooks 3.17 2017 The Love Interest
author: Cale Dietrich
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.17
book published: 2017
rating: 1
read at: 2017/05/24
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: ebooks
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]]> The Dove in the Belly 58739425
Until he can't. Ben is in some ways Ronny's opposite; he's big and solid where Ronny is small and slight. Ben's at UNC on a football scholarship. Confident, with that easy jock swagger, and an explosive temper always simmering. He has a steady stream of girlfriends. Ben's aware of the overwhelming effect he has on Ronny. It's like a sensation of power. So easy to tease Ronny, throw playful insults, but it all feels somehow.loaded.

Meanwhile Ronny's mother has moved to Vegas with her latest husband. And Ben's mother is fighting advanced cancer. A bubble forms around the two, as surprising to Ronny as it is to Ben. Within it their connection ignites physically and emotionally. But what will happen when the tensile strength of a bubble is tested? When the rest of life intervenes?

The Dove in the Belly is about the electric, dangerous, sometimes tender but always powerful attraction between two very different boys. But it's also about the full cycles of love and life and how they open in us the twinned capacities for grief and joy.]]> 336 Jim Grimsley 1646141318 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks 4.13 2022 The Dove in the Belly
author: Jim Grimsley
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/15
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: ebooks
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]]> Columbine 11728781

When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal.


The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy's tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy.


In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.]]> 442 Dave Cullen رغْدُ العَيْش 2 ebooks, nonfiction 4.22 2009 Columbine
author: Dave Cullen
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2009
rating: 2
read at: 2024/03/04
date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> Life for Sale 53203665 Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.]]> 192 Yukio Mishima 0525565140 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks 3.65 1968 Life for Sale
author: Yukio Mishima
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1968
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/20
date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> The Whale: A Love Story 29439906 A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville’s emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick

In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end—his last three novels have been commercial failures and the critics have turned against him. In despair, Melville takes his family for a vacation to his cousin’s farm in the Berkshires, where he meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic—and his life turns upside down.

The Whale chronicles the fervent love affair that grows out of that serendipitous afternoon. Already in debt, Melville recklessly borrows money to purchase a local farm in order to remain near Hawthorne, his newfound muse. The two develop a deep connection marked by tensions and estrangements, and feelings both shared and suppressed.

Melville dedicated Moby-Dick to Hawthorne, and Mark Beauregard’s novel fills in the story behind that dedication with historical accuracy and exquisite emotional precision, reflecting his nuanced reading of the real letters and journals of Melville, Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others. An exuberant tale of longing and passion, The Whale captures not only a transformative relationship—long the subject of speculation—between two of our most enduring authors, but also their exhilarating moment in history, when a community of high-spirited and ambitious writers was creating truly American literature for the first time.]]> 288 Mark Beauregard 0399562346 رغْدُ العَيْش 2 ebooks 3.71 2016 The Whale: A Love Story
author: Mark Beauregard
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2016
rating: 2
read at: 2021/03/11
date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)]]> 61215948
The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar...

Joss Doomsday has run the Doomsday smuggling clan since he was a boy. When the new baronet—his old lover—agrees to testify against Joss's sister, Joss acts fast to stop him. Their reunion is anything but happy, yet after the dust settles, neither can stay away. Soon, all Joss and Gareth want is the chance to be together. But the bleak, bare Marsh holds deadly secrets. And when Gareth finds himself threatened from every side, the gentleman and the smuggler must trust one another not just with their hearts, but with their lives.]]> 353 K.J. Charles رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks, read-women 4.28 2023 The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
author: K.J. Charles
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/26
date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> Lent 41554690 From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence—in all its astonishing strangeness

Young Girolamo’s life is a series of miracles.

It’s a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It’s a miracle that he’s friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It’s a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo “the Magnificent,� the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It’s a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it. It’s a miracle than whenever Girolamo preaches, crowds swoon. It’s a miracle that, despite the Pope’s determination to bring young Girolamo to heel, he’s still on the loose� and, now, running Florence in all but name.

That’s only the beginning. Because Girolamo Savanarola is not who—or what—he thinks he is. He will discover the truth about himself at the most startling possible time. And this will be only the beginning of his many lives.]]> 369 Jo Walton 1466865725 رغْدُ العَيْش 4 ebooks, read-women 4.03 2019 Lent
author: Jo Walton
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/30
date added: 2024/09/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Dolly (Vintage Contemporaries)]]> 1536710
From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is both fascinated and appalled. Where Jane is tactful and shy, Dolly is flamboyant and unrepentantly selfish, a connoisseur of fine things, an exploiter of wealthy people. But as the exigencies of family bring Jane and Dolly together, Brookner shows us that we may end up loving people we cannot bring ourselves to like -- and that this paradox makes love all the more precious and miraculous.]]> 260 Anita Brookner 0679745785 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 3.41 1993 Dolly (Vintage Contemporaries)
author: Anita Brookner
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.41
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> No Thanks 20613858 Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage.

E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love. No Thanks was first published in 1935; although Cummings was by then in mid-career, he had still not achieved recognition, and the title refers ironically to publishers' rejections. No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life—romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations. The volume includes such favorites as "sonnet entitled how to run the world)," "may I feel said he," "Jehovah buried. Satan dead," "be of love (a little)," and the now-famous grasshopper poem.]]> 108 E.E. Cummings 0871403951 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.25 1935 No Thanks
author: E.E. Cummings
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1935
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]]> The Patience Stone: A Novel 8775447 The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman–and, one could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions…it is a rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war. It is without doubt an important and courageous book.� from the introduction by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain, will be the day of the Apocalypse. But here, the Syngue Sabour is not a stone but rather a man lying brain-dead with a bullet lodged in his neck. His wife is with him, sitting by his side. But she resents him for having sacrificed her to the war, for never being able to resist the call to arms, for wanting to be a hero, and in the end, after all was said and done, for being incapacitated in a small skirmish. Yet she cares, and she speaks to him. She even talks to him more and more, opening up her deepest desires, pains, and secrets. While in the streets rival factions clash and soldiers are looting and killing around her, she speaks of her life, never knowing if her husband really hears. And it is an extraordinary confession, without restraint, about sex and love and her anger against a man who never understood her, who mistreated her, who never showed her any respect or kindness. Her admission releases the weight of oppression of marital, social, and religious norms, and she leads her story up to the great secret that is unthinkable in a country such as Afghanistan. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 161 Atiq Rahimi 1590513827 رغْدُ العَيْش 3 ebooks 3.75 2008 The Patience Stone: A Novel
author: Atiq Rahimi
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2020/07/07
date added: 2024/09/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books Classics)]]> 19168806 Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmes—the finest literary biographer of our day—made his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of “a darker and more earthly, crueler and more capable figure.� Expelled from college, disowned by his aristocratic father, driven from England, Shelley led a life marked from its beginning to its early end by a violent rejection of society; he embraced rebellion and disgrace without thought of the cost to himself or to others. Here we have the real Shelley—radical agitator, atheist, apostle of free love, but above all a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator, whose life and work have proved an essential inspiration to poets as varied as W.B. Yeats and Allen Ginsberg.]]> 830 Richard Holmes 1590175700 رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.64 1974 Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books Classics)
author: Richard Holmes
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.64
book published: 1974
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]]> <![CDATA[Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature]]> 80795 A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There he wrote "Mimesis," publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive--and impassioned--response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours.
For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, "Mimesis" is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written.
]]> 616 Erich Auerbach 069111336X رغْدُ العَيْش 0 to-read 4.27 1942 Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
author: Erich Auerbach
name: رغْدُ العَيْش
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1942
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