Friday, July 21, 2023

THE TREES by Percival Everett


 












5.5
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Sunday, April 16, 2023

THE INVENTION OF MOREL by Adolfo Bioy Cesares











5.5 ❤

Classic Literature 1940

Synopsis

 

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

 

Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.

I loved this novel 💗


Monday, October 31, 2022

FAIRY TALE by Stephen King














 Scribner

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Stephen King

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Synopsis

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT by Maggie O'Farrell


 











5.5 💗

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Historical Novel

Maggie O'Farrell

Published September 6th 2022


Synopsis

Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf.


My view 

Do you enjoy beautiful prose? Immersive narration? Maggie O'Farrell will transport you into Duchess Lucrezia d'Medici's Renaissance world with all its beauty and ill-fated marriage.

I truly enjoyed this historical novel.

Read it I highly recommend it.











The tragic Duchess Lucrezia d' Medici, 16 years old.

Sunday, April 3, 2022

MORE THAN I LOVE MY LIFE by David Grossman














Historical Fiction < Croatia-Israel >

2019

Israel

About

 More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili—abandoned by Nina when she was just three—has always been close to her grandmother.

 
With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together to Goli Otok, a barren island off the coast of Croatia, where Vera was imprisoned and tortured for three years as a young wife after she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey—filtered through the lens of Gili’s camera, as she seeks to make a film that might help explain her life—lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion.
 
More Than I Love My Life was inspired by the true story of one of David Grossman’s longtime confidantes, a woman who, in the early 1950s, was held on the notorious Goli Otok (“the Adriatic Alcatraz”). With flashbacks to the stalwart Vera protecting what was most precious on the wretched rock where she was held, and Grossman’s fearless examination of the human heart, this swift novel is a thrilling addition to the oeuvre of one of our greatest living novelists, whose revered moral voice continues to resonate around the world.