PDF-The Lying Life of Adults -PDF

Year: 2020
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)
Language: english
File: PDF, 1.01 MB

PDF-The Lying Life of Adults -PDF

by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

 A NEW NEW POWER located in a Naples divided by ELENA FERRANTE, the best-selling author of the New York Times of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Girl.

"There is no doubt that the publication of The False Life of Adults will be the literary event of the year" --ELLE Magazine

Giovanna's pretty face changes, it becomes ugly, at least that's what her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like his aunt Vittoria every day. But is that true? Is it really changing? Does she become her aunt Vittoria, a woman she barely knows but who her mother and father clearly despise? There is surely a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she really is. Europa Editions

Giovanna seeks her reflection in two twin cities that fear and hate each other: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, place of excess and vulgarity. It goes from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or loopholes.

Named one of time magazine's most influential people of 2016 and often touted as a future Nobel laureate, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world's most widely read and beloved writers. With this new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence and adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many awards. In The False Life of Adults, readers will discover another captivating, highly addictive and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story. 

Book Review: nytimes.com

PDF-The Lying Life of Adults -PDF

by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

Ferrante's women are so spectacularly torn to pieces that it is easy to forget that the vast majority of his novels have, if not happy endings, at least notes of reconciliation. His women go through the fire because they are writers; the act of storytelling becomes an act of reparation. Not necessarily true, as Lila says in "My Brilliant Friend": "Each of us tells his life as it suits us."

The pleasure for the reader is often to spot those moments of disjunction that Ferrante points out to us, where the story is partial or incomplete. But this is where the new novel presents a certain blur. The sad opening paragraph - with its warning that this account is merely a "snarling confusion of suffering, without redemption" - does not correspond to the story we have in our hands, of the evolution of a young woman, so brazen and reasonably secretive, allergic to banality, prone to fabrication but honest with herself about her desires. NYT

PDF-The Lying Life of Adults -PDF

by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

Ferrante leaves many sons unresolved; we ask ourselves about the initial predictions and the enigmatic and strangely heroic conclusion of the novel: What is this progress that seems to contain the seeds of regression? When is a revolt inseparable from a retreat? There may well be a word for that.

Books On The Blog:

PDF-Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - Goodreads-PDF 

PDF-Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel -PDF

PDF-The Glass Hotel -PDF

PDF- Real Life by Brandon Taylor -PDF

Read More

PDF- Wow, No Thank You: Essays -PDF

Samantha Irby
Year: 2020
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: english
File: EPUB, 1.33 MB

PDF- Wow, No Thank You: Essays -PDF

 A new collection of essays by Samantha Irby, an intelligent, nervous, hilarious, unpretentious woman who is a bestseller.
Irby is forty years old and is increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin, despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics has promised her. She quit her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, published best-selling books and was named a friend of Hollywood. She left Chicago and moved with her wife to a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how in a blue city in the middle of a red state where she now runs book clubs and prepares flowerpot salads. Good reads

This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She has bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles to meet "TV executives who slash amateur astrologers" while being a "slightly damp cheese fries eater from the Midwest", "with neck pain and no cartilage in her knees," who always hides her unpaid bills under her pillow.

The essays in this collection are inspired by the raw and hilarious details of Irby's new life. Wow, no thanks, it's Irby in what she has most unfailing, most rioting and more telling.

 “Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.... irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye.”

—Jia Tolentino

PDF- Wow, No Thank You: Essays -PDF

 

Samantha Irby - beloved author of the New York Times bestseller We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - a new collection of hilarious, heartbreaking, nervous and uncomplicated essays.

Irby is forty years old and is increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin, despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics has promised her. She quit her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, published best-selling books and was named a friend of Hollywood. She left Chicago and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a blue town in the middle of a red state where she now hosts book clubs and.

Books On The Blog:

PDF- Real Life by Brandon Taylor -PDF

PDF- The Death of Vivek Oji -PDF

PDF- My black Vanessa -PDF

PDF-The Lying Life of Adults -PDF

Read More

PDF- My black Vanessa -PDF

Biography of the author: Kate Elizabeth Russell.

Kate Elizabeth Russell is originally from eastern Maine. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Indiana University. My Dark Vanessa is her first novel.

PDF-My black Vanessa-PDF

Year: 2020 
Language: English
File: PDF, 1.12 MB

Synopsis:

A novel that defines the era, about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher.

ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER

Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher.

She is now thirty-two years old and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student.

 Vanessa is horrified by this news because she is certain that the relationship she had with Strane was not an abuse. It was love. She's sure of it.
 Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that has happened, Vanessa must redefine the great love story of her life - her great sexual awakening - like rape. She now faces the possibility that she is a victim, and just one of many.
 Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our time.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

"Russell handles a brutal originality. . . . an extremely complex, inventive and ingenious examination of evil and power." -The New York Times Book Review, publishers' choice.
 Calling this book a "conversation subject" or an "important book" is a bit demeaning... It's much more than that. It's a lightning rod. A brilliantly crafted novel" - The Washington Post.Good reads

 A highly anticipated New York Times book - USA Today - Entertainment Weekly - Marie Claire - Elle - Harper's Bazaar - Bustle - Newsweek - New York Post - Esquire - Real Simple - The Sunday Times - The Guardian.WikiPedia

Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious but naïve teenager and her magnetic and manipulative teacher. A brilliant and devouring reading that marks the explosive beginnings of an extraordinary new writer.

 2000. Brilliant, ambitious and aspiring to adulthood, Vanessa Wye, fifteen, finds herself entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her 42-year-old English teacher, magnetic and cunning.

 2017. Amid the growing wave of allegations against powerful men, an account is being made. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself faced with an impossible choice: keep quiet, firmly believe that her teenage daughter has voluntarily engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past.
 But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and who has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager - and who claimed to worship only her - is very different from what she always believed?

PDF-My black Vanessa-PDF

Alternating between Vanessa's present and past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. This masterful portrait of a troubled adolescence and its repercussions, which raises essential questions about the arrangement, consent, complicity and victimization, is thought-provoking and impossible to put on hold. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of.

Books On The Blog:

PDF-Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - Goodreads-PDF

PDF-Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel -PDF

PDF-The Glass Hotel -PDF

PDF- Real Life by Brandon Taylor -PDF

Read More

PDF- The Death of Vivek Oji -PDF

Year: 2020
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: english
File: PDF, 381 KB
A Novel Relié – 4 août 2020

PDF-The Death of Vivek Oji-PDF

Synopsis:

What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?

 One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son's body, wrapped in a colorful cloth, at his feet. What follows is the tumultuous and heartbreaking story of a family's struggle to understand a child whose mind is both sweet and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers from disorienting memory holes, moments of disconnection between himself and his environment. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in his friendships with the warm and turbulent daughters of Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerians. But Vivek's closest bond is with Osita, the socially-driven cousin whose confidence teases masks a protected privacy. As their relationship deepens - and Osita struggles to understand the escalation of Vivek's crisis - the mystery gives way to a heartbreaking act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.WikiPedia

With a dynamic reading, full of unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel about family and friendship that defies expectations - a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader. 

PDF-The Death of Vivek Oji-PDF

Book review:

One of the strengths of this novel is writing, prose and really beautiful images. "If this story were a pile of photographs - of the old kind, rounded at the corners and kept in albums under the glass and lace doilies of the central tables of salons across the country ..." I was struck by the recurrence of the photographs, both those imagined as above and the actual ones reflected in the program of the funeral of Vivek "The program was filled with photos of Vivek as a little boy a baby; nine of them looked like him now. It was as if whoever selected the photos had decided to end the timeline ... that he wanted to make it look like he was someone else." And at the end, real photos, so touching, so revealing.Good reads

Although this story concerns the death of a young man, it is not a spoiler as obviously reflects the title and the first chapter of a sentence. It became more than his story and that's where my weakness lies - too many relationships in a novel that isn't very long and sometimes those relationships seemed to me to be additions. For me, this has diluted in some way Vivek's heartbreaking story. I wanted to know more about Vivek through his own reflection -"So: If no one sees you, are you still there?" I wanted to know more about Vivek, and not just about how he was perceived by others.

The author does a wonderful job of representing their grief - his cousin Osita, bound to Vivek by much more than blood, but no more than Vivek's mother, Kavita. It is a story about identity, Nigeria in the 1990s, about the beauty of acceptance, which unfortunately comes too late. Mixed feelings, so it's right in the middle for me with 3 stars. The plus for writing.

(Warning for those who might have a problem, there are some graphic sex scenes).

PDF-The Death of Vivek Oji-PDF

Revue de presse:

Advance praise for The Death of Vivek Oji:

“[A] dazzling, devastating story . . . A puzzle wrapped in beautiful language, raising questions of identity and loyalty that are as unanswerable as they are important.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Electrifying” —O: The Oprah Magazine

“Brilliant . . . This is a book full of line-level beauty; a book of multiple perspectives, each rendered organically and fully; a book of mystery and community and love. . . . A special read that will not soon be forgotten.” —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black

“Remarkably assured and graceful. . . . Emezi has once again encouraged us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience.” —The Washington Post

“This affecting novel of self-invention . . . poses searching questions about gender and acceptance.” —The New Yorker

 “Extraordinarily powerful.” —Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker

PDF-The Death of Vivek Oji-PDF

“Remarkable and daring.” —The New York Times Book Review

“The arrival of a major talent.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self.”  —Vanity Fair

“Like watching the beginning of something big.” —Vox

Books On The Blog:

PDF-Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - Goodreads-PDF
PDF-Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel -PDF
PDF-The Glass Hotel -PDF
PDF- Real Life by Brandon Taylor -PDF

Read More

PDF- Real Life by Brandon Taylor -PDF

Year: 2020
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: english
File: PDF, 1 Mo

PDF-Real Life by Brandon Taylor-PDF

 Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, BuzzFeed, and many others.

 

A novel of astonishing intimacy, violence and pity among friends in a Midwestern university town, with a new electric voice.

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern college town where he works tirelessly to earn a degree in biochemistry. A young introverted man from Alabama, black and homosexual, he left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has imposed a cautious distance, even within his own circle of friends - some go out together, some with women, others still feign righteousness.

But over a late summer weekend, a series of clashes with colleagues and an unexpected encounter with a white and apparently straight classmate conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing the currents of hostility and desire long hidden within their community.

 

Real Life is a novel with deep and lacerating power, a story that asks if it is really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.

PDF-Real Life by Brandon Taylor-PDF

Critical appreciation? Wikipedia

Real Life was generally well received by critics, including his colleagues Roxane Gay, Garth Greenwell and Danielle Evans,and Jeremy O. Harris wrote a "glowing review" in the New York Times. Eren Orbey, writing for The New Yorker, praised the novel for its description of Wallace's isolation, and for "providing his account with the precision of science and the intimacy of memories." Rather than resorting to satire or seeing his main character complain about micro-aggression, he illustrates "the relentless abrasion of dignity that is familiar to many people of color on these campuses." According to Orbey, if the fact that Wallace is distant from his friends, narrated by "disdainful observations", sometimes reduces even some of his best friends to the kind of schematic creations that appear under his microscope", his judgment is generally correct, and Wallace gets involved in this scheme.

According to Charles Arrowsmith, the title's "Real" also refers to "the insoluble, ineffable and capital of philosophy" and "what Wallace feels is the unknowability of his friends and the impenetrability of his own actions are functions of this kind of Real-ism." These "ambiguities," according to Arrowsmith, "are what makes Taylor's writing strong: his receptiveness to threat in everyday life, subcutaneous sexual vibrations, unconscious motivation." He also admired the fact that Taylor "deftly treats ... of what it's like to be different in an overculture." Slowly, sneakily, he makes a point of noticing that the "whites" undermine the unspoken rule of realistic fiction that race only needs to be mentioned when it is other than white", and that it "reverses with humour" racist tropes. Arrowsmith was less concerned with the "literary conscious" aspects of Taylor's writing and a certain inequality in Wallace's character, but concluded that "with a tighter editing and autobiographical impulse of his system, what Taylor will do next will be worth watching." Good reads

PDF-Real Life by Brandon Taylor-PDF

Barbara VanDenburgh, writing for USA Today, chose it as one of nine LGBTQ books to read for Pride Month, and Laurie Muchnick, in Kirkus Reviews, selected him as one of six "gay beginnings to read during Pride Month."

The novel was selected for the Booker Prize.

Books On The Blog:

PDF-Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - Goodreads-PDF 

PDF-Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel -PDF

PDF-The Glass Hotel -PDF

PDF- Real Life by Brandon Taylor -PDF

Read More

PDF-The Glass Hotel -PDF

by Emily St. John Mandel 

Year:2020
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: english
File: pdf, 1.06 MB

Paul is a lone student at the University of Toronto. In a nightclub, he gives tablets to people he hopes to become a friend of them and one of them dies soon after. Paul flees to his half-sister Vincent's apartment. wikipedia

Five years later, Paul and Vincent worked in a hotel on the northern tip of Vancouver Island in the fictional Caiette, which is based on the real hamlet Quatsino. Graffiti is found written on a window in the lobby with an acid marker, saying, "Why don't you swallow broken glass?" Paul is immediately suspected and soon fired. The graffiti appears to be intended for Jonathan Alkaitis, a wealthy investor who owns the hotel. Vincent, who works at the bar, soon enters into a relationship with Alkaitis and moves into his Connecticut home. His life becomes a life of extreme wealth and accommodation of his partner.

PDF-The Glass Hotel-PDF

Alkaitis is arrested and it is revealed that his investment success is a Ponzi scheme. His complicit staff reacts in different ways to his impending demise. One flees the country, another writes elaborate confessions. Alkaitis was sentenced to 172 years in prison, where he dreamed of a "counter-life" in which he made different choices. He's often haunted by the people he's defrauded.

Vincent changes his identity and is happy to work as a cook on a cargo ship. She disappears from the ship in the middle of a storm. Her boyfriend on board is suspected of killing her. Leon Prevant, who lost all his savings by investing with Alkaitis, is sent to help investigate.

Paul had some success as a composer. He has a long-standing addiction to heroin.

PDF-The Glass Hotel-PDF

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven ("Ingenious." - The New York Times), an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events: the massive collapse of a Ponzi scheme and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

Vincent is a bartender at The Caiette Hotel, a five-star hotel on the northern tip of Vancouver Island. The night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scribbles a message on the glass wall of the hall: "Why don't you swallow broken glass?" Leon Prevant, a merchant navy executive from Neptune-Avradimis, reads the words and orders a drink to calm down. Alkaitis, the hotel owner and a wealthy investment manager, arrives too late to read the threat, unaware that it was intended for him. He left Vincent a hundred-dollar tip with his business card, and a year later they lived together as husband and wife.

Far above Manhattan, a more serious crime is committed: Alkaitis runs an international Ponzi scheme, which involves transferring imaginary money into his clients' accounts. He holds the savings of an artist named Olivia Collins, the fortunes of a Saudi prince and his extended family, as well as countless pension funds, including that of Leon Prevant. The collapse of the financial empire is as rapid as it is devastating, erasing fortunes and lives, while Vincent walks away into the night. Until, years later, she boarded a Neptune-Avramidis ship, the Neptune Cumberland, and disappeared from the ship between stops.Good reads

PDF-The Glass Hotel-PDF

In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the homeless, clandestine electronic clubs, the international shipping trade, service in luxury hotels and life in a federal prison. Unexpectedly beautiful, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways in which we seek meaning in our lives.

Read More

PDF-Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel -PDF

Synopsis:

Yaa Gyasi's stunning sequel, which won the national success Homegoing, is a powerful, raw, intimate and highly stratified novel about a Ghanaian family from Alabama.

Gifty is a fifth-year neuroscience candidate at Stanford Medical School. He studies reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. His brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury made him addicted to OxyContin. His suicidal mother lives in his bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis of the suffering she sees around her. But even as she turns to the exact sciences to unravel the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself starving of her childhood faith and struggling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as enticing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of...

PDF-Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel -PDF

Year: 2020
Editor: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The language: English
Folder: PDF, 4.65 MB

This book just ruined me! I'm barely breathing, I'm sobbing. I've got to pull myself together! Come on, stop crying. Here's the hiccup! I have to breathe and exhale! Wow! It's one of those books that rips your heart out and changes your vision and emotional state at the same time. You're not the same person. We evolve, we hurt ourselves, we grow, we become more open-minded.

It's the poignant, original and heartbreaking story of a family who immigrated from a small town in Ghana, Alabama to realize their dream of a better life. They struggle to adapt, to assimilate, to be part of society.Good reads

Our narrator is the youngest daughter of the family, who is overshadowed by her brother Nana, a popular and talented athlete, who is also her mother's favorite child.

Chin Chin Man, the father of the family joins them later but he can't keep his job as a janitor. He decided to return to Ghana for a time to visit his family, but he never returned.

And Nana gets injured during training, so he slowly becomes dependent on OxyContin. Although he began to receive calls from major universities, having a bright future ahead of him, he began to suffer from mood swings. His mother tries to help him by sending him a treatment camp. She continues to pray and pray, but nothing works. Finally, one day, they find the officer at their door to tell them the shocking news: Nana overdosed.

Gifty not only loses her brother, her hero, her best friend, but she also loses her mother on the same day. Her mother is dealing with her depression, which slowly subsides, while Gifty does everything she can to raise herself and take care of her mother.

Today, Gifty works hard to become a neuroscientist and studies at Stanford Medical School. She wants to focus on reward-seeking behavior to understand why her brother died and what still happens to her mother. She loses her belief in God and religion. She wants answers and, in her opinion, only science, concrete facts can give the right explanations to their bottled questions.

This book courageously questions faith, religion, our beliefs, difficult mental states and different ways of dealing with grief, racism, assimilation, the search for one's own truth and one's own path throughout its difficult life journey.

PDF-Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel -PDF

It's a pure, heartbreaking, intense and honest book. The well-designed layering, unique and fascinating writing style captivate you from the beginning.

No more words! I really liked the author's previous book, "Homegoing", but I think I fell in love with this new book! I liked it even more. One of the best fiction readings of 2020.

Read More

PDF-Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh -PDF

Synopsis:

Vesta Gul, a 72-year-old widow, is walking her dog in the woods and finds a note that reads: "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." However, no body is in sight. Vesta becomes obsessed with discovering who Magda was and the circumstances surrounding her death.

PDF-Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - Goodreads-PDF

Year: 2020
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: english
Type: PDF
Taille: 635 Ko

Publication:

Death in Her Hands was originally scheduled to be published by Penguin Press on April 21, 2020. Its publication was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic The novel was published by Penguin Press on June 23, 2020.

 A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home.wikipedia

While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body". Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. 

She is new to area, having moved her from her longtime home after the death of her husband, and she knows very few people. And she's a little shaky even on best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. 

Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation, strange dissonances start to accrue, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens, until finally, just as she seems be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one - one that strikes closer to home.

PDF-Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - Goodreads-PDF

A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, 'Death in Her Hands' asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, only this time the stakes have never been higher.goodreads

Books On The Blog:

Read More