Collezione romanzi di Anne Tyler

 Ciao a tutti! Oggi vi presento la mia collezione di romanzi scritti da #annetyler, una scrittrice americana. I libri sono pubblicati dalla casa editrice #guandaeditore .

 #ladanzadellorologio : Willa Drake ha dedicato la sua vita a cercare di essere una donna affidabile, ragionevole e accomodante. Ma una telefonata da Baltimora cambia tutto. Decide impulsivamente di aiutare una sconosciuta, prendendosi cura di una bambina e abbracciando una nuova comunità. È giunto il momento per Willa di liberarsi e scegliere la sua famiglia, ricominciando da capo.
#unragazzosullasoglia: Micah Mortimer, un tecnico informatico abituato alla routine, conduce una vita soddisfacente nel suo condominio di Baltimora. Tuttavia, quando il figlio adolescente di Lorna, Brink, si presenta inaspettatamente alla sua porta cercando rifugio, Micah è costretto a confrontarsi con il passato e rivalutare ciò che realmente conta.
#ristorantenostalgia: è una coinvolgente storia che esplora i legami familiari anche nei momenti più difficili. La famiglia di Perla è sconvolta: un marito inaffidabile, 3 figli con le proprie insicurezze e gelosie. Mentre l'America cambia intorno a loro, i personaggi affrontano il dramma del tempo che sfugge, lasciando dietro di sé solo i ricordi sbiaditi.
#latrecciaallafrancese: racconta la storia dei Garrett attraverso diverse generazioni. Durante una vacanza del 1959, un episodio apparentemente insignificante, segna profondamente i 3 figli. Nel corso degli anni, scopriamo la complessità delle loro vite e dei loro legami familiari, pieni di amori, gioie, delusioni e segreti. Un ritratto coinvolgente dell'impatto duraturo delle relazioni familiari.
#lestoriedeglialtri: Barnaby, un fallito agli occhi dei suoi genitori, ha un passato turbolento e un debito con loro. La sua curiosità morbosa verso le vite altrui lo porta a intrufolarsi nelle case e spiare. Ma ora vuole sistemare la sua vita, riparare i debiti e dimostrarsi affidabile a Sophia.
Il mio preferito rimane #unragazzosullasoglia.
E voi avete letto questi romanzi di #annetyler? Quale'è il vostro preferito? Raccontatemi qui sotto nei commenti.
#letteraturaamericana, #autricepreferita

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Pioggia sottile di Luis Landero

 Ciao a tutti, oggi vi parlo di un nuovo libro finito però a fine aprile: #pioggiasottile di #luislandero e pubblicato da #fazzieditore.

📖 Il romanzo familiare è un genere che amo molto, ma in questo caso non sono riuscita ad identificarmi con nessuno dei personaggi presentati. La trama mi è sembrata piuttosto scontata e prevedibile, senza lasciar il minimo spazio ad alcuna sorpresa o colpo di scena.
📖 Inoltre, ho avuto la sensazione che il libro fosse una scusa per darci lezioni di vita piuttosto che costruire una storia con personaggi ben sviluppati e interessanti. La trama sembrava solamente uno strumento per farci riflettere su concetti importanti come la conoscenza di stessa e degli altri, senza un vero approfondimento dei personaggi e delle loro vite.
📖 Il linguaggio, poi non è stato per niente coinvolgente, e anche troppo didascalico, privo di quell'emozione e di quella passione che mi aspetto da una bella storia
📖 In sintesi, un romanzo che purtroppo non lo posso consigliare a chi cerca una storia coinvolgente e emozionante.

✨️ Voi l'avete letto, che ne pensate?

#luislandero, #pioggiasottile, #fazieditore, #instabooks, #letteraturaspagnola

Infanzia di Tove Ditlevesen

 📚Ciao a tutti voi! Oggi voglio parlarvi di un libro che mi ha emozionato moltissimo:"Infanzia" di #toveditlevsen! Questa autobiografia, scritta con una delicatezza e sensibilità uniche, racconta la vita di una bambina cresciuta in una famiglia povera a Copenhagen negli anni'20

📚La scrittura di Tove è meravigliosa, semplice e profonda allo stesso tempo, e riesce a trasmettere tutte le emozioni di una bambina cgd cerca di farsi strada in un mondo difficile d incomprensibile. Leggendo "Infanzia" si riesce a sentire il freddo, la fame e la solitudine della protagonista, ma anche la sua forza e la sua determinata nel cercare di trovare la propria strada.
📚Uno dei punti di forza del libro è proprio la sua capacità di rappresentare la vita di tutti i giorni con una delicatezza e sensibilità uniche ma anche con una grande lucifite un senso dell'ironia che rendono la lettura leggera e scorrevole.
📚Consiglio questo libro a tutti coloro che amano le storie vere, quelle che ti lasciano dentro un senso di nostalgia e di gratitudine per tutte le esperienze che hai vissuto.

#libriletti, #Infanzia, #fazieditore, #justfinishedreading, #trilogiadicopenhagen, #toveditlevensen

 Intimacies (Tra le nostre parole) by Katie Kitamura, both read in English and Italian. Such an atmospheric novel without a real plot line. The story is narrated by an unnamed narrator who accepts the job as an interpreter at the Hague. Our female narrator left New York after her father died and her mother left for Singapore. In her quest to get away from grief, she finds herself involved with a married man, which adds more complications and pain to her already stressful life. Still, I don't want to linger too much on the story line, this is not what actually captivated me. It's a story of silence and communication, many kinds of communication. At its core, the author wanted to give an intimate look about different ways of life. She has such an elegant prose with an unconventional plot. What I enjoyed most was how the author was able to give a dynamic view of thing happening all at the same time and how many interpretations we can give to to each of these. As readers we create Intimacies with one another. We personally give our interpretation of every page we read, the characters, every step they take, moving backwards and forwards. There are so many kinds of Intimacies. An invitation to somebody's house or party means we get acquainted, intimate with that person. A photograph or a painting reveals somebody's memories in a particular moment of his/her life. We can also become intimate with a town once we begin to associate our personal life to its streets and places. We can also become intimate with a person as an interpreter during a trial. There is something very personal into whispering into someone's ear in order to translate for an official meeting.

Kitamura's language seems simple, but it is so evocative and poetic. I cannot recommend it enough.

#katiekitamura, #intimacies, #tralenostreparole, #latestreading, #easterreading, #instabooks, #lovebook

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A new favorite novel Bly by Melania Soriani

 One of my latest reading "Bly" by Melania Soriani.

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Elisabeth Cochran (aka Nellie Bly) was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. Her father was a judge and already had ten children from his first marriage when he married Elisabeth's mother, Mary Jane with whom he had other five children.

Unfortunately, the judge died at only 60 years of age and his fortune was divided among the many children, leaving Elisabeth and her family with almost nothing.

After a couple of years they moved to Pittsburgh. In 1885 Elisabeth read an article in a local newspaper, The Pittsburgh Dispatch, which underlined that a woman's place was in the home as a main help to her husband and family. Since she strongly disagreed to this, she sent a letter as a response to the article signed "Lonely Orphan Girl". The editor was impressed by this letter that he published it in his newspaper.

Shortly after she became a journalist for the Dispatch, publishing all her articles under a pseudonym "Nellie Bly". She became an investigative journalist, she reported the poor working conditions and poor wages people, especially women suffered in factories. She also worked as an international corrispondent for the Dispatch during her six months trip to Mexico.

Elisabeth reached her fame when she moved to New York and began working as a journalist for the New York World. In order to investigate the real conditions of women in an insane asylum, she pretended to to be mentally ill and she soon became a patient of that asylum for ten days. For ten days she experienced the physical and mental abuse the patients suffered. She published all her articles in a book titled "10 Days in a Mad House".

In 1889 she decided to beat the record set by Jules Verne in his novel "Around the World in eighty Days". She traveled with only one dress, a cape and a small traveller's bag. She published all her articles in a book titled "Around the World in seventy-two Days".

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Read it if you love strong female characters and non fiction books. I strongly recommend it if you are a student at a low secondary school and you study human rights and women's rights for your final oral exams.

#nelliebly,

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A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster

 The @newzealandbookawards has been on my radar for some time. I Google in every year to see the long list and then the winner. Unfortunately the physical books are not easy to find here in Europe (Italy, where I live). Well, for some books if we are lucky, we can download them as ebooks on kindle.

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Gigi Fenster @gigifenster is a writer from New Zealand

. She also teaches Creative Writing at University. She has previously published other 2 books: The Intention Book and Feverish. This is her third book, already a winner of a literary award, The Gifkins Prize and now also listed for the New Zealand Book Awards for Fiction.

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A Good Winter is a dark psychological thriller told from the perspective of a very lonely woman in her sixties with a difficult past history, named Olga. She develops a kind of a friendship which turns into an obsession with her neighbor, Lara. Lara's daughter, Sophie suffers from post natal depression and this difficult situation unites them.Olga offers herself to help Sophie and Lara. Olga's competence and efficiency is always needed or at least this is what she believes. Even when the situation improves and Sophie gets better, Olga continues to step in. This stalking behavior, this love obsession for Lara, and the complexities of this obsession, her need to manipulate everything and everyone.

As the story grows she completely loses touch with reality. Fenster is such a skilful writer in creating such a disturbed character and especially putting us as readers into her Mind. She has a great knowledge of the human nature and behavior. It's not easy to be in Olga's mind, I had to slow down, take a break and then come back to the story. 

Olga reminds me a lot the main characters of two of the latest novels I have read The Push and Inferno.

I appreciated the ending very much, she does not tell us right away what happens, we can guess but we are never sure until the end.

#thenewzealandbookaward, #NewZealandliterature, #gigifester #agoodwinter, #textpublishing, #instabooks, #bestbooks2022, #justfininshedreading, #booklover, #bookaddict, #bookaholic

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Wonderful bookish gifts for Christmas

 This is beautiful pstack of books I gifted myself for Christmas. I think that my TBR list is OK fir the next two months read. Looking forward to reading them all...

📖#giveandtake by #adamgrant which gives as an insight on what success really means, about hard work, talent and luck and how these 3 shape our lives in search of success.
📖#thevictorianhouse by #judithflanders, which follows the daily life of the middle-class Victorian house from room to room...
📖#inferno by #catherinecho, a memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband and how she rebuild her identity after a psychosis.
📖#undying by #michelfaber, a wonderful love diary dedicated to his wife who died after a long battle with cancer. A great collection of love and grieve poems.
📖#linvernodeileoni by #stefaniauci, the second volume in the Florio saga, a historical novel.
📖#themadnessofgrief by #richardcoles, a mourning account about the devastation of losing someone so loved.
📖#thegrievevolumes Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss
#tbrlist, #booksfor2022, #loebooks, #instabooks, #bookstagram, #lookingforwardtoread, #Christmasgifts