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Coline's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:44:46 -0800 60 Coline's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes]]> 713621 Mystérieusement libérées de leur geôle, elles entreprennent sur une terre déserte une longue errance à la recherche d’autres humains �� ou d’une explication. Elles ne découvrent que d’autres caves analogues, peuplées de cadavres.
On a pu parler de Kafka, de Paul Auster ou du Désert des Tartares au sujet de cette œuvre à la fois cauchemardesque et sereine, impassible et bouleversante.]]> 192 Jacqueline Harpman Coline 4 4.19 1995 Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes

author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: Coline
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party]]> 144123 Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica from the Endurance with a mission to build supply depots for Shackleton’s planned crossing of the continent. But their ship disappeared in a gale, leaving ten inexperienced, ill-equipped men to trek 1,356 miles in the harshest environment on earth. Drawing on the men’s own journals and photographs, The Lost Men is a masterpiece of historical adventure, a book destined to be a classic in the vein of Into Thin Air.]]> 366 Kelly Tyler-Lewis 0670034126 Coline 0 to-read 4.13 2006 The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

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]]> Angels in America 34993151 352 Tony Kushner 1848426313 Coline 5 read-in-2020, plays 4.43 1995

author: Tony Kushner
name: Coline
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1995
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]]> Eileen 23453099 So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.

This is the story of how I disappeared.

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys�� prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.]]> 260 Ottessa Moshfegh 1594206627 Coline 3 Also, way too many descriptions of bowel movements and vomit for my taste ]]> 3.57 2015 Eileen

author: Ottessa Moshfegh
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I don't know how to describe how I felt about this book... It was interesting, and I do love character studies, but at the same time it felt like it dragged on so much and nothing happened for such a long time, which would be okay but I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over at some point. It got better when Rebecca appeared because finally something happened which is exactly how Eileen must have felt. The twist was cool though, you expect something like this to happen, you're waiting for it to happen, so when it does it's satisfying. But then I was a bit disappointed with what was done with it? Idk.
Also, way too many descriptions of bowel movements and vomit for my taste
]]> Things We Lost in the Fire 30375706
But alongside the black magic and disturbing disappearances, these stories are fueled by compassion for the frightened and the lost, ultimately bringing these characters—mothers and daughters, husbands and wives—into a surprisingly familiar reality. Written in hypnotic prose that gives grace to the grotesque, Things We Lost in the Fire is a powerful exploration of what happens when our darkest desires are left to roam unchecked, and signals the arrival of an astonishing and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 192 Mariana Enríquez 045149511X Coline 0 to-read 4.04 2016 Things We Lost in the Fire

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]]> Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 46041199 A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,�� she has recently left her white-collar desk job—in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time—as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women—alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.

In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist—a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her—from the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women’s restroom and post their photos online. In her father’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child—to put them first.

Jiyoung’s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons “family planning�� birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?

Rendered in minimalist yet lacerating prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 sits at the center of our global #MeToo movement and announces the arrival of writer of international significance]]> 163 Cho Nam-Joo 1631496700 Coline 0 to-read 4.17 2016

author: Cho Nam-Joo
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]]> Earthlings 50269327
Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?]]> 247 Sayaka Murata 1783785675 Coline 0 to-read 3.59 2018 Earthlings

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]]> Alias Grace 72579
An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?

Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.]]> 468 Margaret Atwood 0385475713 Coline 0 to-read 4.08 1996

author: Margaret Atwood
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]]> 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 10357575 The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.�� A world that bears a question.�� Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s �� 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.]]> 944 Haruki Murakami 0307593312 Coline 0 to-read 3.94 2009 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

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]]> Convenience Store Woman 38357895
A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.]]> 163 Sayaka Murata Coline 0 3.70 2016 Convenience Store Woman

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]]> Au prochain arrêt 57946526
Dans ce décor invariable, et pourtant mouvant, des vies vont ainsi s’entrechoquer et être profondément changées�� pour le meilleur. À chaque arrêt, de nouveaux passagers s’installent, se parlent, se lient. Et, d’un trajet à l’autre comme d’une saison à l’autre, le lecteur se fait l’observateur des paysages nouveaux et des multiples trajectoires qu’auront prises ces destins croisés. Tels les wagons attachés les uns aux autres dans l’alignement parfait des rails, le livre se construit sur une chaîne d’événements où tous les personnages finissent par être durablement connectés d’une manière ou d’une autre.

Plus qu’une ode au voyage, ce roman choral de Hiro Arikawa est une invitation à l’arrêt sur soi-même, en même temps qu’un éloge de l’imprévisible. Et de ces rencontres qui, si l’on ne s’en défend pas, font que des êtres de passage peuvent bouleverser le cours de nos vies.

]]> 184 Hiro Arikawa 2330150121 Coline 0 3.92 2008 Au prochain arrêt

author: Hiro Arikawa
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]]> Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 257213 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet, en cinq actes en prose.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme nous raconte l'histoire comique d'un riche bourgeois qui essaye d'imiter la façon de vivre et le comportement des nobles.]]> 240 �ѴǱ��è�� 2038716617 Coline 0 plays 3.72 1670

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]]> Les Jardins statuaires 4276675
Récit de voyage (le livre est dédié à un ethnologue), conte philosophique, utopie, roman initiatique, roman d’aventures, le texte déroge aux habituelles catégories littéraires. Nourri à la lecture des romans populaires et policiers, Jacques Abeille a forgé un domaine fantastique qui rejoint ceux de Mervyn Peake, de Julien Gracq, d’André Hardellet, avec la langue d’un peintre et d’un poète, créant des mondes d’une rare force visuelle.

À une époque indéterminée, un voyageur découvre le pays des « Jardins statuaires », un ensemble de domaines, protégés par de vastes enceintes, où la principale activité des hommes consiste à cultiver des statues. Dans ces propriétés où la pierre pousse sans cesse, la vie est réglée d’après une organisation rigoureuse, apparemment ludique et rationnelle, mais aux fondements étranges. Au fil des pérégrinations du voyageur, l’utopie se lézarde : la place des femmes, le pouvoir occulte d’une mystérieuse guilde des hôteliers, les statues qui maigrissent ou croissent indéfiniment posent des questions angoissantes. Enfin, la menace de Barbares qui se rassemblent aux frontières.]]> 350 Jacques Abeille 2080644920 Coline 0 to-read 3.89 1982 Les Jardins statuaires

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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales]]> 63697 243 Oliver Sacks Coline 0 4.08 1985

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

author: Oliver Sacks
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> The Haunting of Hill House 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 Coline 0 3.85 1959

author: Shirley Jackson
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]]> <![CDATA[Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens]]> 23121224
Pas facile de se garer au centre-ville un samedi après-midi. Par bonheur, juste devant vous, une place se libère à l'angle de l'avenue Victor-Hugo et du boulevard Georges-Brassens. Vous saisissez l'aubaine. Malheureusement, devant le parcmètre, vous vous rendez compte qu'il vous manque 50 centimes. Que faire ? Le plus simple est sans doute d'arrêter le premier passant et de lui demander poliment cette somme. Mais vous risquez d'être déçu. Alors, suivez ce conseil : commencez par demander l'heure et, l'heure obtenue, avant que la personne ait tourné les talons, dites-lui que vous avez besoin de 50 centimes pour alimenter le parcmètre. Nous pouvons vous assurer qu'en procédant ainsi vous multiplierez vos chances de succès ! Mais vous n'êtes pas obligé de nous croire sur paroles.
Un chercheur américain (Harris, 1972) a précisément comparé l'efficacité de ces deux façons de procéder pour obtenir un dime (environ 50 centimes d'euro aujourd'hui) dans les quartiers d'Albuquerque, la plus grande ville du Nouveau Mexique. Lorsque la requête était formulée directement, un citadin sur dix seulement acceptait de donner la somme demandée ; il s'en trouvait quatre fois plus lorsque l'expérimentateur avait préalablement demandé l'heure.
Les chercheurs qui réalisent de telles expériences (il s'agit de psychologues sociaux) n'ont généralement pas besoin de monnaie. Ils ont même l'habitude de restituer aux promeneurs l'argent qu'ils leur ont ainsi subtilisé pour les besoins de la science. Ils réalisent évidemment ces expériences pour éprouver la validité de considérations théoriques qui peuvent être assez savantes. Il reste qu'ils fournissent, ce faisant, une façon de procéder - une technique - que vous pouvez utiliser tous les jours pour obtenir d'autrui quelque chose que vous n'auriez pas obtenu par des moyens plus directs, en tout cas pas avec la même facilité. Or, obtenir de quelqu'un qu'il fasse librement quelque chose (ici : donner 50 centimes) dont il aurait préféré se dispenser, et qu'il n'aurait pas fait à la suite d'une simple demande, à appeler les choses par leur nom, c'est de la manipulation. N'est-ce pas, par exemple, une forme de manipulation que d'obtenir de Madame O. qu'elle commande un tourne-page, trois porte-bouchons, et une douzaine de cendriers gonflables, autant d'achats qu'elle n'aurait jamais sérieusement envisagés avant d'avoir rempli le bulletin de participation au super grand prix d'automne de La Maison dolmatienne qui permet de gagner cette année un chèque de 500000 euros, une KW 13 dernier modèle, et une semaine de vacances en famille sur les plages dolmates ?
On rencontre ainsi, dans cette discipline expérimentale et descriptive qu'est la psychologie sociale, un nombre non négligeable de travaux dans lesquels les chercheurs amènent des femmes, des hommes ou des enfants à se comporter en toute liberté' différemment de la façon dont ils se seraient comportés spontanément, à l'aide de techniques qu'on peut considérer comme de véritables techniques de manipulation. La recherche d'Harris qui vient d'être évoquée n'est qu'un exemple parmi d'autres. Ces travaux scientifiques sont riches d'enseignements pratiques car ils touchent directement à notre vie quotidienne. Il n'est guère, en effet, que deux façons efficaces d'obtenir de quelqu'un qu'il fasse ce qu'on voudrait le voir faire : l'exercice du pouvoir (ou des rapports de force) et la manipulation.]]> 320 Robert-Vincent Joule 2706118857 Coline 0 3.65 1997 Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens

Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens

author: Robert-Vincent Joule
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[The Island Stallion's Fury (The Black Stallion, #7)]]> 54364927 184 Walter Farley Coline 0 4.00 1951

The Island Stallion's Fury (The Black Stallion, #7)

author: Walter Farley
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]]> <![CDATA[Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)]]> 9687944 This is an alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780307575852.

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

The Vampire Chronicles continue in Prince Lestat. Look for a special preview in the back of the book.]]> 352 Anne Rice Coline 0 to-read 3.67 1976 Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

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]]> Les Mémoires d'un chat 35152077 320 Hiro Arikawa 2330078234 Coline 4 4.33 2012

author: Hiro Arikawa
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]]> <![CDATA[When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World]]> 1835405
"We've all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We're familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed thru the most devastating attacks. But human resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with a whole heart; suppose further a commitment to this belief, suppose irrevocable actions have been taken because of it; finally, suppose evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that the belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of such beliefs than ever before. Indeed, s/he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting others to this view. How and why does such a response to contradictory evidence come about? This is the question on which this book focuses. We hope that, by the end of the volume, we will have provided an adequate answer to the question, an answer documented by data."

When Prophecy Fails is a classic text in social psychology authored by L. Festinger, H. Riecken and S. Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it's a sociopsychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world & the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize.

"The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement & watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."--Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.]]> 264 Leon Festinger 0061311324 Coline 0 to-read 3.77 1956 When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

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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 Coline 0 4.22 2020

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]]> Hangsaman 131177 Hangsaman is Miss Jackson's second novel. The story is a simple one but the overtones are immediately present. "Natalie Waite who was seventeen years old but who felt that she had been truly conscious only since she was about fifteen lived in an odd corner of a world of sound and sight, past the daily voices of her father and mother and their incomprehensible actions." In a few graphic pages, the family is before us—Arnold Waite, a writer, egotistical and embittered; his wife, the complaining martyr; Bud, the younger brother who has not yet felt the need to establish his independence; and Natalie, in the nightmare of being seventeen.

The Sunday afternoon cocktail party, to which Arnold Waite has invited his literary friends and neighbors, serves to etch in the details of this family's life, and to draw Natalie into the vortex. The story concentrates on the next few critical months in Natalie's life, away at college, where each experience reproduces on a larger scale the crucial failure of her emotional life at home. With a mounting tension rising from character and situation as well as the particular magic of which Miss Jackson is master, the novel proceeds inexorably to the stinging melodrama of its conclusion. The bitter cruelty of the passage from adolescence to womanhood, of a sensitive and lonely girl caught in a world not of her own devising, is a theme well suited to Miss Jackson's brilliant talent.]]> 191 Shirley Jackson 0445031174 Coline 0 3.78 1951 Hangsaman

author: Shirley Jackson
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]]> Piranesi 57507862 Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.

In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.

Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?

Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.]]> 245 Susanna Clarke 1526622432 Coline 4 4.23 2020

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The Beauty of the House is immeasurable, its Kindness infinite...
]]> Fight Club 36236124 Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.]]> 224 Chuck Palahniuk 0393355942 Coline 4 4.18 1996 Fight Club

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]]> Hangsaman 20362391
Inspired by the unsolved disappearance of a female college student near Shirley Jackson's home, Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation.]]> 240 Shirley Jackson 0141391987 Coline 4 3.78 1951

author: Shirley Jackson
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Not my favourite Shirley Jackson book but a good read nonetheless!
]]> Asiles 2518100 452 Erving Goffman 2707300837 Coline 0 currently-reading 4.14 1961 Asiles

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]]> The Summer Book 79550
Full of brusque humour and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own experience and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of the novels she wrote for adults. This new edition sees the return of a European literary gem—fresh, authentic and deeply humane.]]> 192 Tove Jansson 0954221710 Coline 0 4.05 1972 The Summer Book

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]]> <![CDATA[The Everyday Poet: Poems to Live By]]> 33294194
This brand-new anthology holds up a mirror to our own lives, and is designed to tackle your everyday whether work is getting you down, you need a moment to relax, you're having trouble sleeping or need a little romantic guidance, this book has a poem for you. Each poem has been carefully selected by editor Deborah Alma, the world's first and only emergency poet, who travels in her 1970s ambulance to schools, libraries and festivals to offer consultations and prescribe poems as cures for various to comfort, purge melancholy, provide hope and give courage. This collection will lift your mood and brighten your day, offering poetic help wherever it is needed. Other poetry collections include The Emergency An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology.]]> 192 Deborah Alma 178243657X Coline 0 3.79 The Everyday Poet: Poems to Live By

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]]> Le Maître du Haut Château 23355851 Nouvelle traduction

1948, fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et capitulation des Alliés. Vingt ans plus tard. dans les Etats-Pacifiques d'Amérique sous domination nippone, la vie a repris son cours. L'occupant a apporté avec lui sa philosophie et son art de vivre. A San Francisco, le Yi King, ou Livre des mutations, est devenu un guide spirituel pour de nombreux Américains, tel Robert Chidan, ce petit négociant en objets de collection made in USA. Certains Japonais, comme M Tagomi, dénichent chez lui d'authentiques merveilles. D'ailleurs, que pourrait-il offrir à M Baynes, venu spécialement de Suède pour conclure un contrat commercial avec lui ? Seul le Yi King le sait. Tandis qu'un autre livre, qu'on s'échange sous le manteau, fait également beaucoup parler de lui : Le poids de la sauterelle raconte un monde où les Alliés. en 1945, auraient gagné la Seconde Guerre mondiale...

Premier chef-d'oeuvre de son auteur, Le maître du Haut Château fut récompensé dès sa sortie par le prestigieux Prix Hugo. Il est ici présenté dans une toute nouvelle traduction et augmenté de deux chapitres inédits d'une suite inachevée.]]> 380 Philip K. Dick 2290082325 Coline 2 meh 3.29 1962 Le Maître du Haut Château

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meh
]]> <![CDATA[Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead]]> 51648276
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

Duration: 11 hours 39 minutes.]]> 274 Olga Tokarczuk Coline 4 3.93 2009 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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]]> Janua Vera 25161130
À travers dix destins se dessine une géographie du vieux royaume, de ses intrigues, de ses cultes, de ses guerres. Et de ses mystères, dont les clefs se nichent, pour beaucoup, dans les méandres du cœur humain.

]]> 496 Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2070464261 Coline 0 currently-reading 4.15 2007 Janua Vera

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]]> Othello 12996 319 William Shakespeare Coline 0 to-read 3.89 1603 Othello

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]]> I'm Glad My Mom Died 59364173
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,�� eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?�� She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!��), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]> 320 Jennette McCurdy Coline 0 Oof. 4.45 2022 I'm Glad My Mom Died

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]]> <![CDATA[Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators�� Revolution]]> 59879803 A new dark academic fantasy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Poppy War

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

Oxford, 1836.

The city of dreaming spires.

It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.

And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.

Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.

Until it became a prison��

But can a student stand against an empire?

An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.]]> 546 R.F. Kuang 0008501815 Coline 0 to-read 4.25 2022 Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

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]]> <![CDATA[Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men]]> 41104077
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women��, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.]]> 448 Caroline Criado Pérez 1419729071 Coline 0 to-read 4.35 2019 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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]]> <![CDATA[Her Body and Other Parties: Stories]]> 33375622 Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.

A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.

Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

The husband stitch --
Inventory --
Mothers --
Especially heinous --
Real women have bodies --
Eight bites --
The resident --
Difficult at parties]]> 248 Carmen Maria Machado 155597788X Coline 0 to-read 3.85 2017 Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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]]> <![CDATA[Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)]]> 42036538
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.

Of course, some things are better left dead.]]> 448 Tamsyn Muir 1250313198 Coline 0 to-read 4.19 2019 Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[We Have Always Lived in the Castle]]> 60233380 190 Shirley Jackson Coline 5 3.94 1962

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I loved this so much! What a beautiful slow burn of disturbing.
]]> Severance 36348525
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?

A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale and satire.]]> 291 Ling Ma 0374261598 Coline 0 to-read 3.90 2018

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]]> Lapvona 59693959 In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet

Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life’s few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him as a baby, as she did so many of the village’s children. Ina’s gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers, however religious they might be. For some people, Ina’s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place.

Among their number is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The people’s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by Villiam and the priest, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family, new and occult forces upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, civility and savagery, will prove to be very thin indeed.]]> 313 Ottessa Moshfegh Coline 0 to-read 3.53 2022 Lapvona

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]]> Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.��

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.]]> 275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Coline 0 to-read 4.10 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five

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]]> Dark Tales 30303793 For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh

After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the "The Possibility of Evil" and "The Summer People." In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. There's something sinister in suburbia.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 195 Shirley Jackson 0241295424 Coline 0 to-read 4.00 2016 Dark Tales

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]]> The Lottery 6219656
“The Lottery�� stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history. Originally published in The New Yorker, the author immediately began receiving letters from readers who demanded an explanation of the story’s meaning. “The Lottery�� has been adapted for stage, television, radio and film.
]]> 30 Shirley Jackson 1563127873 Coline 0 to-read 4.08 1948

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]]> <![CDATA[The Boy in the Striped Pajamas]]> 39999
Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one.]]> 224 John Boyne 0385751079 Coline 0 to-read 4.17 2006

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]]> <![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]> 13793239 193 Philip K. Dick 1780220383 Coline 3 3.93 1968

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]]> <![CDATA[Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free]]> 20575440 320 Héctor Tobar 0374280606 Coline 0 to-read 3.89 2014

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

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]]> Plain Bad Heroines 50496875
Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed�� Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.

A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations.]]> 640 Emily M. Danforth 0062942859 Coline 0 to-read 3.64 2020 Plain Bad Heroines

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]]> <![CDATA[Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)]]> 17934530 Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.]]> 195 Jeff VanderMeer 0374104093 Coline 4 i love weird shit 3.80 2014 Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

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i love weird shit
]]> La Ligue des Super Féministes 43159158 Mirion Mall eest autrice et dessinatrice de bande dessinée. Autrice du très remarqué Commando Culotte, est la plus talentueuse et la plus drôle des autrices de BD didactique : elle relève le défi haut la main avec cette BD engagée, efficace et accessible et surtout drôlissime !]]> 72 Mirion Malle 236012112X Coline 0 4.22 2019 La Ligue des Super Féministes

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]]> <![CDATA[The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)]]> 52483192 An Alternative Cover Edition can be found here

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.

Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.

But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.

An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.]]> 396 T.J. Klune 1250217318 Coline 0 4.47 2020

The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)

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]]> My Name Is Monster 56886436
Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. Changing her own name to Mother, Monster names the child after herself. As young Monster learns from Mother, she also discovers her own desires, realising that she wants very different things to the woman who made, but did not create, her.

Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, My Name is Monster is a novel about power, about the things that society leaves imprinted on us when the rules no longer apply, and about the strength and the danger of a mother’s love.]]> 320 Katie Hale 1786896362 Coline 2 3.67 2019 My Name Is Monster

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This was a drag. Glad it's over! Sorry!
]]> The Haunting of Hill House 6393407 246 Shirley Jackson 0141191449 Coline 5 3.88 1959

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Romance in a fucked up house is the best kind of romance
]]> <![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]> 44145077 Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original �� poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born �� a history whose epicentre is rooted in Vietnam �� and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to the American moment, immersed as it is in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.

]]> 236 Ocean Vuong Coline 4 3.82 2019 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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]]> Solaris 95558
When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.]]> 204 Stanisław Lem Coline 3 4.00 1961 Solaris

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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 44767458
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X Coline 0 to-read 4.33 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)

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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Coline 0 to-read 4.05 1963

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]]> The Lord of the Rings 33 One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.]]> 1216 J.R.R. Tolkien 0618640150 Coline 0 to-read 4.52 1954 The Lord of the Rings

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]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Coline 0 to-read 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis

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]]> Ghost Wall 58213096
For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie's father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs—particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind.

The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?

A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the "primitive minds" of our ancestors.]]> 152 Sarah Moss 1783787856 Coline 0 to-read 3.68 2018

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]]> The Yellow Wall-Paper 286957
In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid�� wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.

First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.

Excerpt:
Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.]]> 62 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1558611584 Coline 0 She sure hated that wallpaper 4.11 1892 The Yellow Wall-Paper

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She sure hated that wallpaper
]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 46132305 Burn before reading.

Red and Blue, two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions, strike up an unlikely correspondence. But what started as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more: something epic and romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

The discovery of their bond will mean their deaths. There’s still a war going on, and someone has to win that war. That’s how wars work. Right?

Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.]]> 201 Amal El-Mohtar 1529405238 Coline 4 3.88 2019

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]]> Rebecca 17899948 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.]]> 449 Daphne du Maurier 0316323705 Coline 0 to-read 4.28 1938 Rebecca

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]]> A Cosmology of Monsters 43506916
His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.

His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe—too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.

And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydney, won’t admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight . . . until it swallows her up.

Noah Turner sees monsters. But, unlike his family, Noah chooses to let them in .]]> 336 Shaun Hamill 152474767X Coline 3 3.75 2019 A Cosmology of Monsters

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I feel like it wasn't really what it promised to be, but it's interesting and well written enough that it wasn't actually too disappointing.
]]> Thirteen Storeys 51160099
A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers - even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. Whether privileged or deprived, besides a postcode, they share only one thing in common - they've all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building's walls.

By the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests ever said what happened. His death remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries - until now.

But are you ready for their stories?

Jonathan Sims' debut is a darkly twisted, genre-bending journey through one of the most innovative haunted houses you'll ever dare to enter.]]> 390 Jonathan Sims 1473228735 Coline 3 3.82 2020 Thirteen Storeys

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]]> Initiate 56435902
This book is a hagstone.]]> 95 Mabel Martin 1838357505 Coline 4 4.30

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]]> Circe 41045102
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long - and among her island's guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything.

So Circe sets forth her tale, a vivid, mesmerizing epic of family rivalry, love and loss - the defiant, inextinguishable song of woman burning hot and bright through the darkness of a man's world.]]> 337 Madeline Miller 1408890046 Coline 4 4.16 2018 Circe

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]]> Wuthering Heights 348914 Alternate cover edition for ISBN: 9780141439556.

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.]]> 359 Emily Brontë Coline 0 to-read 3.84 1847 Wuthering Heights

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]]> Song of Solomon 11334 338 Toni Morrison 140003342X Coline 0 to-read 4.15 1977

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]]> Croc-Blanc 1454237 Du loup ou du chien, lequel de ses instincts finira par l'emporter?]]> 202 Jack London 2092506927 Coline 0 3.98 1906

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]]> <![CDATA[L'empreinte de l'Étalon Noir (L'Etalon Noir #5)]]> 33564451 153 Walter Farley 2014003637 Coline 0 2.50 1952

L'empreinte de l'Étalon Noir (L'Etalon Noir #5)

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]]> <![CDATA[Sur les traces de l'étalon noir]]> 8607260 218 Walter Farley 2012003281 Coline 0 3.50 1950

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]]> Le Ranch De L'étalon Noir 6084768 251 Walter Farley 201322379X Coline 0 0.0 1949

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]]> <![CDATA[Flamme, Cheval Sauvage (L'Etalon Noir #10)]]> 27479083 256 Walter Farley 2012036139 Coline 0 3.36 1948

Flamme, Cheval Sauvage (L'Etalon Noir #10)

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]]> <![CDATA[Le fils de l'Étalon Noir (L'Etalon Noir #4)]]> 27479268 170 Walter Farley 2014003629 Coline 0 3.17 1947

Le fils de l'Étalon Noir (L'Etalon Noir #4)

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]]> Le retour de l'Ã©talon noir 42118878 256 Walter Farley 2013225636 Coline 0 0.0 1945

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]]> <![CDATA[La révolte de l'étalon noir (L'étalon noir, #2)]]> 22171376 0 Walter Farley 2012009913 Coline 0 3.88 1953

La révolte de l'étalon noir (L'étalon noir, #2)

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]]> L'étalon Noir 1452747 Walter Farley 2012009077 Coline 0 3.75 1941

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]]> <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 1934 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,�� including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book�� her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

]]> 449 Louisa May Alcott Coline 0 to-read 4.16 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)

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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Coline 0 to-read 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird

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]]> House of Leaves 337907
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.]]> 709 Mark Z. Danielewski Coline 4 read-in-2020 4.03 2000 House of Leaves

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]]> Crush 96259 Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness�� of Siken’s poems. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.”]]> 80 Richard Siken 0300107897 Coline 5 poetry 4.35 2005 Crush

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]]> En attendant Godot 12090 Préoccupé de peu de choses hormis ses chaussures, la perspective de se pendre au seul arbre qui rompt la monotonie du paysage et Vladimir, son compagnon d'infortune, Estragon attend. Il attend Godot comme un sauveur. Mais pas plus que Vladimir, il ne connaît Godot. Aucun ne sait au juste de quoi ce mystérieux personnage doit les sauver, si ce n'est peut-être, justement, de l'horrible attente. Liés par un étrange rapport de force et de tendresse, ils se haranguent l'un et l'autre et s'affublent de surnoms ridicules. Outre que ces diminutifs suggèrent que Godot pourrait bien être une synthèse qui ne se réalisera qu'au prix d'un anéantissement, Didi et Gogo portent en leur sein la répétition, tout comme le discours de Lucky, disque rayé qui figure le piétinement incessant auquel se réduit toute tentative de production de sens.

Cette pièce composée en 1952, quinze ans avant que Beckett ne soit couronné par le prix Nobel de littérature, est un tour de force qui démontre les profondeurs que peut atteindre un langage en apparence absurde. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters

]]> 124 Samuel Beckett 2707301485 Coline 0 to-read 3.65 1951 En attendant Godot

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]]> <![CDATA[The Magnus Archives: Season 4 (Magnus Archives, #4)]]> 53841022
With each chapter released as a podcast episode, The Magnus Archive is structured as a series of statements recorded or written and then recorded for internal research use within The Magnus Institute. At the beginning of each statement, the statement-taker (mainly Jon, the head archivist) provides a brief description of the statement and the name of the statement-maker. Those who give or record statements in the Magnus Institute tend to lapse into a trance-like state not unlike reliving the event.

The fourth season of this award winning horror audio-drama series.]]> 40 NOT A BOOK Coline 5 audiobooks, read-in-2019 4.87 The Magnus Archives: Season 4 (Magnus Archives, #4)

The Magnus Archives: Season 4 (Magnus Archives, #4)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Magnus Archives: Season 3 (Magnus Archives, #3)]]> 53840982
With each chapter released as a podcast episode, The Magnus Archive is structured as a series of statements recorded or written and then recorded for internal research use within The Magnus Institute. At the beginning of each statement, the statement-taker (mainly Jon, the head archivist) provides a brief description of the statement and the name of the statement-maker. Those who give or record statements in the Magnus Institute tend to lapse into a trance-like state not unlike reliving the event.

The third season of the acclaimed and highly popular horror series.]]> Jonathan Sims Coline 5 read-in-2019, audiobooks 4.82 The Magnus Archives: Season 3 (Magnus Archives, #3)

The Magnus Archives: Season 3 (Magnus Archives, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Magnus Archives: Season 2 (Magnus Archives, #2)]]> 53840935
With each chapter released as a podcast episode, The Magnus Archive is structured as a series of statements recorded or written and then recorded for internal research use within The Magnus Institute. At the beginning of each statement, the statement-taker (mainly Jon, the head archivist) provides a brief description of the statement and the name of the statement-maker. Those who give or record statements in the Magnus Institute tend to lapse into a trance-like state not unlike reliving the event.

The second season of the critically acclaimed series.]]> 40 NOT A BOOK Coline 5 audiobooks, read-in-2019 4.82 The Magnus Archives: Season 2 (Magnus Archives, #2)

The Magnus Archives: Season 2 (Magnus Archives, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Magnus Archives: Season 1 (Magnus Archives, #1)]]> 53840244
With each chapter released as a podcast episode, The Magnus Archive is structured as a series of statements recorded or written and then recorded for internal research use within The Magnus Institute. At the beginning of each statement, the statement-taker (mainly Jon, the head archivist) provides a brief description of the statement and the name of the statement-maker. Those who give or record statements in the Magnus Institute tend to lapse into a trance-like state not unlike reliving the event.]]> Jonathan Sims Coline 5 audiobooks, read-in-2019 4.78 The Magnus Archives: Season 1 (Magnus Archives, #1)

The Magnus Archives: Season 1 (Magnus Archives, #1)

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]]> L'Alchimiste 47000 189 Paulo Coelho 2253150908 Coline 0 stopped-reading Nope 3.83 1988

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Nope
]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 Coline 0 to-read 4.05 1815 Emma

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]]> Count Magnus 18510835 26 M.R. James 1473305381 Coline 0 read-in-2020, audiobooks 3.42 1904

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]]> <![CDATA[The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone]]> 25667449
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.]]> 336 Olivia Laing 1250039576 Coline 0 to-read 3.91 2016 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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]]> The Weird and the Eerie 29845449
Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie. These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan.]]> 134 Mark Fisher 1910924385 Coline 0 to-read 4.05 2016 The Weird and the Eerie

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]]> <![CDATA[They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)]]> 33385229
Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.]]> 389 Adam Silvera 0062457799 Coline 3 read-in-2020 3.76 2017 They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)

They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)

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]]> Crier's War (Crier's War, #1) 41951626 Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made.
A love that could birth a revolution.

After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, Designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will.

Now, Ayla, a human servant rising the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging the death of her family�� by killing the Sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier. Crier, who was Made to be beautiful, to be flawless. And to take over the work of her father.

Crier had been preparing to do just that—to inherit her father’s rule over the land. But that was before she was betrothed to Scyre Kinok, who seems to have a thousand secrets. That was before she discovered her father isn’t as benevolent as she thought. That was before she met Ayla.

Set in a richly-imagined fantasy world, Nina Varela’s debut novel is a sweepingly romantic tale of love, loss and revenge, that challenges what it really means to be human.]]> 464 Nina Varela 0062823965 Coline 0 to-read 4.12 2019 Crier's War (Crier's War, #1)

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]]> Treasure Island 765380 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780140437683

"One more step, Mr. Hands, and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know."

Originally conceived as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of immorality, Long John Silver. Admired by Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and (reluctantly) Henry James, the story has the dreamlike quality of a fairy tale. It has worked its way into the collective imagination of more than five generations of readers, young and old alike, gaining the power of myth.

Although thoroughly British in its setting and characters, Treasure Island, as John Seelye shows, has an American dimension, drawing on the author's experiences living in California, and owes no small debt to Washington Irving's ghost stories and James Fenimore Cooper's tales of adventures. This edition also includes Stevenson's own essay about the composition of Treasure Island, written just before his death.]]> 210 Robert Louis Stevenson Coline 0 to-read 3.65 1882

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]]> Little Weirds 44284906 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find:

× The smell of honeysuckle
× Heartbreak
× A French-kissing rabbit
× A haunted house
× Death
× A vagina singing sad old songs
× Young geraniums in an ancient castle
× Birth
× A dog who appears in dreams as a spiritual guide
× Divorce
× Electromagnetic energy fields
× Emotional horniness
× The ghost of a sea captain
× And more

I hope you enjoy these little weirds.

Love,
Jenny Slate]]> 224 Jenny Slate Coline 0 to-read 3.87 2019

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]]> <![CDATA[Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Musical Drama]]> 43175022 The War of the Worlds was one of the first and greatest works of science fiction ever to be written. Even long before man had learned to fly, H.G. Wells wrote this story of the Martian attack on England. These unearthly creatures arrive in huge cylinders, from which they escape as soon as the metal is cool. The first falls near Woking and is regarded as a curiosity rather than a danger until the Martians climb out of it and kill many of the gaping crowd with a Heat-Ray. These unearthly creatures have heads four feet in diameter and colossal round bodies, and by manipulating two terrifying machines �� the Handling Machine and the Fighting Machine �� they are as versatile as humans and at the same time insuperable. They cause boundless destruction. The inhabitants of the Earth are powerless against them, and it looks as if the end of the World has come. But there is one factor which the Martians, in spite of their superior intelligence, have not reckoned on. It is this which brings about a miraculous conclusion to this famous work of the imagination.]]> Jeff Wayne Coline 0 to-read 4.02 1978 Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Musical Drama

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]]> Dracula 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]> 488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 Coline 0 4.02 1897 Dracula

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]]> Tipping the Velvet 25104465 472 Sarah Waters Coline 0 to-read 4.12 1998

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]]> <![CDATA[Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)]]> 12000020
But against all odds, when Ari and Dante meet, they develop a special bond that will teach them the most important truths of their lives, and help define the people they want to be. But there are big hurdles in their way, and only by believing in each other—and the power of their friendship—can Ari and Dante emerge stronger on the other side.]]> 390 Benjamin Alire Sáenz 1442408928 Coline 0 to-read 4.29 2012 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)]]> 46260658 Damianos of Akielos has returned.

His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill.

On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In the south, Kastor’s forces are massing. In the north, the Regent’s armies are mobilising for war. Damen’s only hope of reclaiming his throne is to fight together with Laurent against their usurpers.

Forced into an uneasy alliance the two princes journey deep into Akielos, where they face their most dangerous opposition yet. But even if the fragile trust they have built survives the revelation of Damen’s identity—can it stand against the Regent's final, deadly play for the throne?]]> 400 C.S. Pacat Coline 0 4.10 2016 Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)

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