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En quelques pages, à la première personne, Annie Ernaux raconte une relation vécue avec un …
First book I've finished in French (I picked the shortest one possible, its like barely a novella lol).
An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.
The small town nuclear family setting made me feel so claustrophobic and a few hundred pages in, right when I was starting to wonder why I was still reading this weird family book, all the characters and the story started blowing open. Really well crafted, nothing revolutionary but a solid book to get wrapped into for a few weeks.
An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.
When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops …
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives …
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives …
Who tampered with the elevator?
The mundane job of elevator inspection becomes a mysterious tale of intrigue. Whitehead weaves a …
Roman autobiographique de science-fiction aux accents cyber-punk, Valide défie les genres de plus d'une façon. Chris Bergeron nous propose avec …
@astralstreeting yeah, I've been recommended him a few times, I'm very stoked to be reading this finally. I'm only ~70 pages in but I already get the feeling like it's gonna be incredible (albeit challenging)
A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. It was published in 2014 …
"Two best friends share an aversion to 'the human shackles' of motherhood, only to discover …
Really simple prose and a kind of overdone premise made me feel like I knew what I was getting into, but the story sucked me in really quickly and I ended up finishing it in one sitting. Really appreciated the steady, almost omnicient presence of the narrator through lots of turmoil in the lives of the women around her.
"Two best friends share an aversion to 'the human shackles' of motherhood, only to discover that life has other plans. …
